Mohamad Jebara loves mathematics — but he's concerned that too many students grow up thinking that this beautiful, rewarding subject is difficult and boring. His company is experimenting with a bold idea: paying students for completing weekly math homework. He explores the ethics of this model and how it's helping students — and why learning math is crucial in the era of fake news.
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Hmu
Im so bad in math
Stanley F. I can help you , just tell what you are having problems with
Did he ever say the name of the company? My kids would love this…
https://mathspace.co
That’s a clever business model.
The utility of math is rarely explained in school. I would have been a lot more eager to learn if real-life applications had been mentioned. Not problems made up by authors, but solutions used by real people. Monetary rewards don’t solve the depressing sense of futility. If you explained how computer games use plenty of math, you’d already have many boys on board.
Adrian Yes, because you’ve done actual research about it. Don’t discard data so easily just because you think you have your hypothesis worked out better. Data doesn’t lie, don’t be stubborn
yooo lemme sign up for this
genius. i already love math naturally like him but i’d gladly sign up and get paid some $$. only if i knew the company name tho
Jerry Google same
What is the website of the company?
I guess the Black-White-Asian ratio wil shrink soon then!?!??
Maths is difficult, no doubt in it, only intelligent students can do it comfortably
I’m afraid you miss the point. Only engaged students, or those that have had the ability to be engaged, grow to comfortably practice mathematics and apply it.
What is the name of the website? I want my 2 nephews to join it!
If they pay for college homework I’ll go back and finish my degree!
NO PAY, NO GAIN
Sign me up!
So basically replace the kids’ intrinsic motivation with an extrinsic one. Brilliant.
Can someone link this application?
This company should do their own maths homework, not pay others to do it for them đ
*See’s title
Me: WHERE THOUGH
If only my student time were this time around.. huuft..