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Commitment to contribute to transforming the way
mathema4c has been presented Brief story of me and math and generally technology
By: Marjan BoorBoor
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A liCle bit on my background • Electronic engineering, BSc physics, MSc technological Socio Economical
planning majoring in energy planning
• Top student in math and physics and computer • Mathema4c and computer Olympiad • Ar4ficial intelligence • Robo4c • Winner of several award in Robocup which is one of the most pres4gious
compe44on in the field of ar4ficial intelligence (hCp://www.robocup.org ) in Iran, Germany, Netherland, Atlanta
• Developer energyplanner.dk (an intelligent soRware for tracing changes due to energy transi4on, change of fuel from fossil to renewable, improving system energy efficiency, heat recycling, energy saving )
• Working on several 100% renewable energy system design projects in different municipality in Denmark
Content of the presenta4on • The main reason for this talk is to share with you one of my persistent
complaint about the way mathema4cs is presented and what have been my believes in this regard that made me to complain.
• The possibility that I can create to resolve my complaints and my recent commitment in this regard
• How I love and enjoy learning, applying math and how each of my success in math gave me momentum to follow science and engineering and adventure new technologies
• What method did I used for learning math • My experience of sharing my learning methods with my students and
what these methods are • How applying these methods can contribute to transforma4on of
mathema4c educa4on and make it possible for more students to enjoy learning math and apply that in their life and their jobs
• My curiosity and imagina4on were my giRs • Unique way of learning for each individual
My book ”How become a genius” • I believe every one can be a genius in a field that they are
passionate for • In this book I explain some of the features of people so
called genius and model what they do and explain how we can recreate those feature for ourselves.
• The primary feature of geniuses is their obsessive focus on what they are passionate for. I offering some methods to reach this focus and one of them is for becoming free from our persis4ng complaint.
• I believe that any complain that we have in our life is about something we care about, and we think that thing should be done beCer and most oRen we know how it should be done beCer.
Persistent complaints mostly are sign for ac4on
• If we are authen4c with ourselves most oRen have the ability to change the thing that we complain about
• We can create a possibility and make it beCer, and most oRen we have passion for that too
• In my case I have had a consis4ng complain about the way that Math was presented in schools, and then universi4es since I was 14 or 15
• I believed that math is full of life, joy and full of beau4ful images and can be related to our every day life and the way we experience world
• But what I observed was that, the way math was presented in my schools and university, oRen experienced by my classmate and friends is a course with awful amount of numbers and meaningless and irrelevant calcula4ons that they have to do
My hunger for mathema4c
• In elementary school I loved math, that was the most sa4sfying course for my carious mind
• But not necessarily the way that it was taught in school • I developed my own way studying for math • I had a way to make numbers and equa4on visualized and make them full of feeling and emo4on
• With my own way I learned so much faster • So my own math book problems became boring aRer a while and then I started to solve problems in my friends math books in higher grades
My favorite hobby
• In middle school we had white board in our class • My first interac4on with white board was absolute pleasure
• White board was my free space to create • A way to communica4ng inner self to give physical forms to my thought without any limita4on
• See my though and play with it and draw what I see in things
My first break through
• I stay late in the class and work on the mathema4c problem that I found interes4ng
• I had a lot of fun • ARer a while I was recognized by my school and they sent me to mathema4c Olympiad prepara4on courses
• Then Physics and Computer Olymaid
Math and computer prepara4on course
• In this classes basically is not much teaching, there are a lot of introduc4on to different equa4on and mostly you need to do lots of self learning and problem solving
• So I s4ll con4nued my way of learning math • I was a top student in one the class that many of my fellow student find it unbelievably hard but the reason was that I was not relay on what was said in the class
• The class was much higher level than what we learned in school
• I got all this self-‐confidence
My observa4on of people that have problem with math and sta4s4cs
• My observa4on was that most oRen when students around me, aRer having many courses in math graduate they do not remember most of it and even if they remember ,oRen they do not willing to or do not know how to u4lize their skills in their jobs
• Many people decide to not go to college or higher educa4on or drop out from their college or university because of mathema4c
• Unfortunately it was not the case just in my observa4on
• Recently I was presented to Jo Boaler, she is a mathema4c professor in Stanford university by friend of mine Bonita Banducci who teach in Santa Clara University which is also one of the speaker for today.
• Some of Jo Boaler works are available in YouTube, ,she gave alarming sta4s4c and figures for math result in US and how many student drop college and university just because they fail to succeed in math. She has developed innova4ve ways for teaching math.
• She also mansions How in coming future there is a need more math skill in many of jobs • All this tell us how many of our resource investment in mathema4c educa4on that is founda4on for
educa4on in science and produc4on of technology had a poor return and prac4cally have been wasted
My teaching experience • The thing is the reason for my complain have been that I have 8
years of experience of teaching math to mostly so called problema4c student who labeled to have learning disabili4es or sever stress or anxiety toward mathema4c.
• My experience with these students was that any student who is approved to be in school not only could learn math but also can be great in math and enjoy that
• My observa4on was even though that factors such as gender, age, and race, background can effect the way we learn but are not determining factors for being good at math and enjoy learning that and generally the end result.
• Through all these years I never failed with any of them and see miracles in each of these students. My students first got great grades in math and then other courses too and for many of them changed the course of their life significantly.
My success in teaching math • At that 4me many of my parents friends and neighbors asked me to help their
children with math. I could help many students successfully to get good grades in math courses and then in other courses too.
• One of the most impressive experiences was one our neighbor’son that was in first year of high school. He was about to drop school and he was labeled that he has learning disability. In first session he told me that he has no interest in math and generally to studying and he rather become a garbage man than stay in school, but his mother do not leave him alone.
• I just say that is fine, we just talked a liCle bit and if you did not like it, you can just go. I asked him about his hobbies and interests and sports that he likes. He told me that he liked soccer. So I began the first session and start talking about numbers and equa4ons and explain all the image that see in each of these equa4ons and then came up with examples and math problems related to soccer and he started to solve them and aRer 10 session he went to math final exam and got (B+). He had not got this grade in any of his courses un4l then. Their parents were shocked. He stayed my student and finished high school.
• My experience with my mother
Example of what I see in an equa4on diagram that explain Chaos
Alexander Gonchenko∗, Sergey Gonchenko† and Alexey Kazakov‡ ,Simple Scenarios of Onset of Chaos in Three-‐Dimensional Maps, (2014)
Our plan for future, what possibility can I create from to resolve my complaints
• Trough help of my dear friend Bonita Banducci (gender engineering) I would like to design workshops for interac4on with technology and Mathema4cs
• Where people have chance to experience and find a fun way to learn and work with technology and enjoy that
• We will create the plaiorm to share our vision and innova4ve ways, that technology can be experienced by them
• Also empowering them to be pioneer to create technology and way of learning for people with different perspec4ves
Invita4on for coopera4on and partnership
• I believe that if we want more people in science and technology, we need to transform the way science specially math is presented to people
• rela4onship with technology from learning to applica4on and innova4on and produc4on of technology and science. First one is in a prac4cal level and second one is in the research level.
• First: prac4cal level, if you are interested in this subject and trying to reach the same demographic, we can collaborate and brain storm to create workshop and developing curriculum for educa4onal program for different age group to engage them in science and technology that can give them access to beCer opportuni4es and career. I have some idea for make it possible in this workshops to interact with science in a fun way, that can help them to discover their unique way of connec4on with science and realizing their poten4als in different field of science.
Invita4on for coopera4on and partnership
• Second: For the research level I believe that there is a need for tools and methods that can be provided to people that is scien4fically designed based on brain science, psychology to make it easier and fun for people to be engaged to science and technology.
From my personal experience with science and technology and also working with a lot of people, I truly believe that there many special and unique poten4al in many people that make them able to do extra ordinary abili4es to feel and understand science in a very deep level and if through customized way of teaching these poten4al can be realized I would like to develop a research in intelligent tools for learning and teaching(using computer science and brain science) that can be customized to characteris4c of each individual and write a PhD in this area. I am seeking for a university preferably in US that this research can be fits to their programs and a professor who has interest in this subject.
The keys to my success
• Insa4able curiosity(My curiosity did not give me much room and 4me for believing the exis4ng
constrain as a reality) • Dare to try explore and make mistake(Find my way to learned that anyway) • Strong imagina4on • Discovering my unique way of learning • Set a place for expressing my feeling and thoughts • Mastery in math • See math my everyday life • Have a great role models • Do not believe in constrains
My life is my game and I am the one who must set the game rules
• First every day spend minimum 5 minutes of your 4me be a kid again. In this 4me, watch your life as you saw that back then, be carious about everything and you have a lots of great imagina4on about you like to do, see everything as possibility and try, laugh and be playful . Even if you had to do some portending at the beginning, your natural talent will come you and aRer a while you feel confident to start whatever that seems to be just a dream for you now
• Get yourself a white or black board or similar your window or a large piece of paper. It physically gives you a blank space, first expressing and wri4ng whatever it hurts and then ask ques4on in a way that you can come up with solu4on. That is a way of communica4on with your inner intelligence.
• In the begging you set alarm set alarm from 10 to 15 minutes for both experience and just keep wri4ng, even if you write First sentence as I do not know what to write
• When you write your distrac4ons and what hurts you will have a free space to create
• If you have difficulty with math or any thing similar write the problem and do not afraid of imagina4on.
My contact informa4on • Contact me by follow email : [email protected] Skype: marjan.boorboor
• Personal website: www.energyplanner.nu
• Website which contains, an intelligent tool for renewable energy system planning that I developed in Roskilde university.
That is free to use for now www.energyplanner.dk
Happy women’s day • We have been focusing so much on what women are have difficulty to do but there are many characteris4cs in the women nature that can do extra ordinary things with science. Women experience life and death and growth in their bodies all the 4me. All science is made up from nature that women has a deep connec4on to it, technology is just applica4on of the science, and if they can discover that, it will give them leverage to learn faster and be more innova4ve and create science.