As part of Positive Education learning, we have been inviting students to work through a course led by Dr Jo Boaler (Professor Mathematics Education at Stanford University) and her undergraduate students.
This will help students to develop a Growth Mindset in Maths. This course includes useful information about the brain and the best ways to learn Maths effectively.
Charlotte: All the doctors said that it would take along time for the girl to move again but the girl recovered really fast and began to walk and run. All the doctors wore shocked of how fast the girl the recovered.
Ethan: Scientists thought she would be paralysed for a long time because the brain controls your body. Surprising all the doctors, she regained the ability to move quite quickly because her brain grew back and all the cells reconnected. That just showed the power of the brain is more powerful than we ever thought it would be.The brain would be able to grow itself back in a few days. Now that you know that, let's see how you do in your maths test!
Summary The video taught us about the brain. Anyone's brain can grow at any time if you challenge yourself. London taxi drivers have to memorise 20,000 streets and 25,000 landmarks. They study for 2-4 year and then take a test called "the knowledge". And their Hippocampus grows tremendously when they retire it shrinks back. There was a study where some scientists got two groups of volunteers, looked at their brains, told them to learn how to juggle, and sent them home. The scientists contacted the first group and gave them tips and encouragement. They didn't contact the second group. After a while they got back together and showed the scientists their juggling skills. Only the first group had learned how to juggle and showed significant brain growth. This kind of evidence proves that the brain is much more plastic than previously thought. Practicing a task for a few minutes every day makes your brain grow. This mean we can learn almost anything.
Yoichi: Lots of people hated maths except for some people. The people who hate math did not think it was useful but the people who liked math thought it was useful in day to day life.
Coco: I think that often people haven't had an enjoyable experience meaning that they don't have many happy memories with the subject.
Cleo: Most people feel a bit bored or frustrated when they do maths. Others use it in work but might not like it quite so much. And some people disliked it as a kid but got better withit growing up.
Georgia: Most people don't like it because there are lots of rules to learn and it can be very frustrating especially when you get things wrong.
Anastasiya: Summary of the video "Math Myths and the Brain" There are many math myths that have been for a long time and are actually not true. For example, there is a myth that some people are more talented in math than others. In fact, everyone can succeed in math. But different people can have different experiences. The second important point of the video is that our brain is very flexible and develops with practice. The more we learn the more our brain grows.
Eddie: they were talking about a myth that there are people that are good at maths and that some people aren't. some of the things thy said were "Anyone can succeed in maths", "there is no such thing as a maths person" and "you need to exercise your maths brain".
Hadley: What I took out of this was that you are good at maths you just need to try no one is gifted with maths they have just had a good experience with it and any one can be good at maths.
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