Math isn’t just for “math kids” — it’s for everyone, says learning expert Shalinee Sharma. She outlines four simple steps to transform your approach to math, creating an environment where any kid can develop a strong mathematical mind. (Recorded at TED@BCG on September 12, 2024)
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@thinkingimpaired5663
December 26, 2024 at 7:24 am
In California placing your child in private school helps a lot.
@parvezkhondoker
December 26, 2024 at 7:27 am
Nice
@kasim7929
December 26, 2024 at 7:33 am
In my opinion introduce your children to only one concept in maths very humbly and carefully, the compound interest in finance. They’ll keep digging deeper everywhere else in maths by themselves after that.
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December 26, 2024 at 7:34 am
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December 26, 2024 at 7:34 am
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December 26, 2024 at 7:34 am
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December 26, 2024 at 7:34 am
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@fburton8
December 26, 2024 at 7:35 am
“because they were… groty” What did she say? I’m unfamiliar with that word. The closest we have here in UK is grotty, but I don’t think she meant that.
@NoNo-ch9wz
December 26, 2024 at 7:55 am
She said “grody” which is similar to “gross”
@thebillmo
December 26, 2024 at 9:28 am
To the max!
@justlisten82
December 26, 2024 at 9:33 am
Same diff in the end coincidentally
@diannabryzicki7111
December 26, 2024 at 7:36 am
I transfered schools in 6th grade where they were already well into geometry. I COULD NOT memorize. So I asked the teacher to explain how she arrived at the theorems I was supposed to memorize. She started to explain how there were standard relationships and PRIVED it to me. After her explanation it all made sense and I was able to navigate through math problems easily and was an “A” student. If I answered incorrectly, seeing how she arrived at the correct answer made all the difference in the world. Math became a puzzle to solve and was very exciting from that point on. At University, I fell in love with calculus and found the challenge exciting.
@virendrasahani6871
December 26, 2024 at 8:21 am
It’s the quality of maths/science/educationists/ scholar’s people they always talk in a slow pace so you can fully understand what they are saying. One of the fundamental quality of a teacher.
@ctcboater
December 26, 2024 at 8:36 am
That reminds me of my 6th grade Math teacher, Miss Martin. She must have hated math, and she tried to make the students hate math too, with endless and useless repetition. Fortunately, she couldn’t break me, and I ended up an Engineer. ;>D
@ngoctram535
December 26, 2024 at 9:12 am
How beautiful the speech is! It’s delivered in a thoughtful manner, well structured, simple to comprehend. Thank you!
@billbucktube
December 26, 2024 at 9:27 am
Excellent‼️
@Stories-Today
December 26, 2024 at 11:15 am
0:00 – Introduction: A mom’s surprising encounter about math kids
1:08 – Math vs. reading: Why labeling hurts learning
1:35 – Shalinee Sharma’s journey and work with Zearn
1:58 – Changing the question: How to teach math, not who can learn it
2:31 – Step 1: Believe in a child’s potential
4:17 – Step 2: Understand math through meaning, not memorization
7:43 – Step 3: Make math fun and engaging
9:28 – Step 4: Give math a second chance and find true love for it
10:26 – Conclusion: Transforming the power and beauty of math
@sidshri6080
December 26, 2024 at 4:28 pm
Truly minuted it to recollect, thank you!
@Bilal-a7mt
December 26, 2024 at 11:18 am
Nice ❤????
@egyptwns89_26
December 26, 2024 at 11:20 am
Outside of the basics, I can’t math my way out of a wet paper bag, but I can geometry anything and everything around me (even people). I think it’s just the fact that a shape is easier for me to grasp rather than going through equations. Shapes are concrete, physical; I can see and touch the shape. Equations are numbers and letters that could be anything and are written on paper which holds no weight for me to grasp
@Kcsjj
December 26, 2024 at 11:36 am
That ratio example was pretty cringe. Let’s hear one next time for 8th grade Algebra.
@Kcsjj
December 26, 2024 at 11:39 am
That ‘closest to’ example was incredibly difficult for 4th graders, especially without a calculator. Are you teaching long repeating decimal division to mid-elementary at all the schools this lady is visiting?
@jrcat2258
December 26, 2024 at 11:47 am
I read the title as “4 Steps to Unlock Your Kid’s Meth Potential”. I need glasses, but damn that title was funny
@saisaigraph1631
December 26, 2024 at 11:48 am
Wow excellent ❤
@XenobiaF
December 26, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Love this!
@moooonwalker
December 26, 2024 at 3:38 pm
This shows how TED has gone down so far. Not everyone is ready to share knowledge. TED failed quality control, or they just let people to pay and advertise themselves through TED channel.
@alphacause
December 26, 2024 at 6:50 pm
I applaud Ms. Sharma’s approach. Nothing can vanquish a child’s enthusiasm for any subject, when most of the teaching of that subject involves rote memorization. The sooner we move away from that approach and more towards the approach that Ms. Sharma is advocating, the better it will be for our kids, and the better it will be for our nation’s global competitiveness.
@思敬沈
December 26, 2024 at 10:28 pm
when my child 3yeas old interested in math game .and fun with math.
@brightkidsstudio2024
December 26, 2024 at 11:15 pm
Great stuff here.
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December 27, 2024 at 1:55 am
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@Michelle_Brouellette
December 27, 2024 at 2:01 pm
On the games that’s why my dad never objected to us playing pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh. Math practice.
@rdwells
December 27, 2024 at 5:55 pm
Amen. We need to get to the point where “I can’t do math” is looked up with the same stigma as “I never learned to read”.
Also, besides games, there are lot of art projects you can with children that are really math lessons in disguise.
@АлдиярЕлдосұлы
December 28, 2024 at 9:03 am
In KAZAKHSTAN, we have NOT problems with math, because children are forced to do it by their parents, and that’s why RUSSIAN and Kazakh method of knowledge is acknowledged by lots of countries, Without such STRANGE methods, like these ????????????????
@wg3951
January 1, 2025 at 10:27 pm
The problem with such brute force is that children will not necessarily incline towards math if they are given the choice
@АлдиярЕлдосұлы
January 2, 2025 at 9:39 am
@wg3951 we choose our choice after 11 grade, till this period , we INCLINE to every single subject, and I think it is not harmful and it doesn’t provoke any problem ????
@sanyabrestify
December 28, 2024 at 9:04 am
Надо запретить делать часы механически и кварцевые часы это пережиток прошлого
@JohnEllis-m5u
December 28, 2024 at 9:15 am
In the intro (1:35) she claims to have ‘observed millions of students complete billions of math problems’. How is this possible!? Lets be generous and assume the number is 2 billion. Over 12 years that would require her to be ‘observing’ 5.28 problems per second continuously – without sleep! For 12 years! I question her authenticity.
@ms.currysneighborhood2462
December 28, 2024 at 10:02 pm
Actually, taking away challenging literacy assignments is done.
@shonojiusagi
December 29, 2024 at 6:16 am
こういうのすごく面白い…！
@christopherhall4125
December 29, 2024 at 11:15 am
I graduated high school (1999) and I couldn’t even do algebra (I did take it, but do to being in the group homes and foster care system I was set back at each new home) and I completed business calculus in college. After like 15yrs removed from HS.
I believe I always have the potential to do math, my dad was an accountant, mom was HS drop out (still until this day).
@logolept
December 29, 2024 at 3:26 pm
I sympathize with her, I concur.
Edit: Dulcet synchrony of emphases to my ears.
@robertberatheon4213
December 29, 2024 at 3:52 pm
A lot of education boils down to early childhood development through the parents. If parents don’t take an interest in their child’s educational development then most times the kids fall behind and never catch up…
@annat6249
December 29, 2024 at 4:02 pm
As a person who find math easy and now a parents myself to a kid who naturally love math, math is not a memorized problem. If you are, it is like cheating your way through school. Once the memory lost, math education is gone.
Based on my growing up, it was my dad. When I was a kid, my dad said “Math is easy” so I have never fear it. These days class have 25 students, many teacher cannot give a child a customized learning. Start at home.
@Sunny58942
December 29, 2024 at 6:34 pm
These are some good points. I remember during school when it came to basic math we would be using blocks and games to help learn in the classroom. Also, i think overall the understanding of the basis of math is hard for many people in the US to understand.
@MyTubeRodrigoSantos
December 29, 2024 at 10:18 pm
New generations dont want to understand anything, they just ask google about it and go forward to post it at X or tiktok.
When you really understand math you can realize that it is the foundation of any science, physics, chemistry, mechanics, you name it, all use math as foundation.
It is so simple that people try to complicate it just to make it seem respectful, because some people believe as a pre concept that if some theory is not complicated, by being too simple (not simplistic) it is because either it is not true pr has no value.
The power of calculating the change at a market place gives people the independence they need to thrive in finance, have you imagined that already??
Thee is no such thing as a math person or a reading person, as much as there is no black, yellow, white or green person to me. We are all people regardless, and we all can do math, being of any color, race or pickup mother… ish. Heheheh
@shashikantjadhav5214
December 30, 2024 at 12:55 am
It begins with the parent making a kid aware of how math is fun n enjoyable. Math is always a fun n easy to work with when you love it. Wonderful talk !
@سیروس.مریدی
December 31, 2024 at 2:08 am
ریاضیات در قالب بازی های کودکانه..قصه ها .افسانها و موارد زیادی جای دهیم و تنفر از ریاضیات از کودکی به اشتیاق تبدیل کنیم..
@anyelle
December 31, 2024 at 3:22 am
Being a teacher myself and a mom of two wonderful kids, I just thank you for this video! The more people know and understand these important basic principles – the more happy kids and later successful adults we have!❤
@rubcreator
December 31, 2024 at 1:52 pm
These are basic teaching concepts, nothing groundbreaking. The only thing novel is that we have to keep talking about it to make the problem known, so good on the speaker for doing that
@chrisjames7447
December 31, 2024 at 6:59 pm
i needed to listen to this ted talk
@gofeeder2326
December 31, 2024 at 8:31 pm
I want to solve all math problems well.
@Reva-z1z
January 1, 2025 at 5:24 am
My younger sister is struggling in math she is going to drop the subject next year
@Reva-z1z
January 1, 2025 at 5:27 am
She sounds like AI
@MrBrownstick
January 2, 2025 at 6:37 am
Cool ????
@arielusher9979
January 2, 2025 at 6:37 pm
Numberblocks is such a fun math show on YouTube for kids.