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In the modern world, we are surrounded by digital technology; information and entertainment are readily available to us on our screens. Children of today are growing up while constantly using a wide range of electronic devices, so much so that some people call them digital natives. This phenomenon inevitably alters our interactions, the way we spend our free time, and our approach to education.
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Technological advancements have impacted all industries and the education sector is no exception. The past months have been hard for all of us, but students, teachers, and parents did a great job adapting to the sudden need for a digital shift. Jumping on the bandwagon and contributing to digital growth in EdTech, we pushed our startup to the next level and became a grantee in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Balance the Equation Global Grand Challenge.
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Developing a good product always involves intensive user research. So who are our users? Mastory has a diverse group of stakeholders, which makes the user research quite complex. Students and teachers are users, schools are customers, school committees or functional managers are influencers, and parents are further stakeholders. In this blogpost, we will focus on the user group of the teachers. We will talk about their needs and goals for teaching math and the possibility of using Mastory to support their teaching. Mastory may increase the students’ motivation for math and the tool we provide for the teachers allows them to always have an overview and maintain control: the Teacher’s Dashboard.
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Last updated - Sep 6, 2022
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What do you do if you have a wonderful idea about how to make learning mathematics really exciting? You develop a product that is available for any student to benefit from it. But how do you convince math teachers, school principals, and district leaders to give it a try? You provide evidence for its effectiveness.
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When we think of mathematics, we usually visualize numbers and complicated equations with letters in them or maybe X-es we need to find or areas we need to calculate. This is mostly because of how modern math education works. Mathematics is perceived as a culturally neutral, values-free discipline[^1] that is based purely on logic and therefore unbiasedly reflects on the students’ general intelligence.
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Life has changed radically throughout human history and our approaches and attitude towards education have transformed with it. In ancient times, people gathered around the fire and the elders told stories about their own life and the experiences of their ancestors, passing down important knowledge to the younger generation. This kind of early education was a social act and was the most interesting part of the day.
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