On this episode of The Report Card, Nat speaks with Po-Shen Loh, professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and coach of the United States' International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) team. Nat and Po discuss the difference between teaching problem solving and teaching computation, the limitations of mastery learning, the potential of online learning, math outreach, IMO, Hagoromo chalk, how to make math instruction simultaneously more engaging and more challenging, whether educators should discuss the usefulness of math, a scalable program to teach problem solving to advanced students live online, calculators, and more.
Show Notes:
https://www.poshenloh.com/about/ (Po's Personal Website)
https://www.cmu.edu/math/people/faculty/loh.html (Po's Academic Website)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad (International Mathematical Olympiad)
https://live.poshenloh.com (Live.PoShenLoh)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/science/quadratic-equations-algebra.html (Po on Quadratic Equations)
https://www.novid.org (NOVID)
https://www.poshenloh.com/tour (Po's Speaking Tour)