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To math education, says khan, is that students carry on gaps in their knowledge throughout their math careers. making it hard to get the more advanced concepts. the key to overcoming that problem is to let students learn at their own pace. khan academy offers students a quiz after each video, and they can't pass a level until they get ten out of ten questions right. >> let everyone learn at their own pace. only move on to a concept once they've gotten to a certain level of proficiency or a mastery on a base level. >> if we let students learn at their own pace, what does that do to the traditio...

Surprising to them and to us the levels that they were reaching. and it was fascinating just to watch them be free, to have that freedom to explore on their own. >> one crucial discovery thordarson made was that it made a lot of sense for students to watch the videos at home. >> woohoo! victory! >> it is the reverse of the current system where students spend valuable class time simply getting the basic information from the teacher. copying notes. >> now they're able to do the problems, which are really the most important part of the learning process, they're able to do the problems with other ...

Math careers. making it hard to get the more advanced concepts. the key to overcoming that problem is to let students learn at their own pace. khan academy offers students a quiz after each video, and they can't pass a level until they get ten out of ten questions right. >> let everyone learn at their own pace. only move on to a concept once they've gotten to a certain level of proficiency or mastery on a base level. so that their tool kit is strong for that more advanced thing. >> if we let students learn at their own pace, what does that do to the traditional classroom model? it's turned ups...

Watch them be free, to have that freedom to explore on their own. >> one crucial discovery thordarson made was that it made a lot of sense for students to watch the videos at home. >> woohoo! victory! >> it is the reverse of the current system where students spend valuable class time simply getting the basic information from the teacher. copying notes. >> now they're able to do the problems, which are really the most important part of the learning process, they're able to do the problems with other people around them. a teacher around them. with their peers around them. they can actually tutor...

The key to overcoming that problem is to let students learn at their own pace. khan academy offers students a quiz after each video, and they can't pass a level until they get ten out of ten questions right. >> let everyone learn at their own pace. only move on to a concept once they've gotten to a certain level of proficiency or mastery on a base level. so that their tool kit is strong for that more advanced thing. >> if we let students learn at their own pace, what does that do to the traditional classroom model? it's turned upsidedown. which is exactly what we need to do. last fall, los alt...