Lecture 1 Quiz
Why wear sunscreen?
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Answer: Many reasons. One is it prevents wrinkles. Apparently.
Too late for Satish.
What is the real mothers day?
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Answer: The first day of School.
What is infinity? Is it math?
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Answer: 0, 1, 2, and so on. Yes.
Add text from this "number line" or "natural numbers", math springs. Adding 2, moves over by 2. Addition facts, multiplication facts. Abstraction \( 7+x=x+7 \), go over by \( 7 \) and then \( x \).
Are kids brilliant?
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Answer: Yes. They know infinity.
What is 2?
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Answer: The number after 1, and before 3.
Nothing more. Nothing less. Not 2 apples or 2 pears. Just 2.
What happened with Stanford School of Education and East Palo Alto Academy?
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Answer: The school was closed.
See this article confirming the closure。
They are still involved in professional development though. And they still fail the kids. Economically disadvantaged hispanic kids there do well worse than state averages.
How many pages is the 2023 California Math Framework?
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Answer: Over a 1000.
What does Mississippi do better than California?
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Answer: Teach disadvantaged kids to read.
Through robust policy changes like mandatory early intervention and the Literacy-Based Promotion Act (the "Mississippi Miracle"), Mississippi catapulted from 49th in fourth-grade reading proficiency to rank among the top half of states nationally.
Citation: The Mississippi Miracle (Wikipedia)
Is Satish trying to win the elementary school vote?
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Answer: Well, they can't vote.
But he thinks recess is both good and popular. Some kids may prefer the library, or the art or music rooms. That's good.
How much do we spend on curriculum a year?
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Answer: 5 billion.
Notably, we spend roughly 40B on teacher salaries. Optimizing everything else would allow us to pay them more. Read more about this approach on my Platform page.
Is Rao's shirt too long, or suit jacket too short?
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Answer: Shirt too long, probably.
This is surprising, given that Satish's arms are so long, his fingers drag on the ground.
What are you thinking? Let me know.