Steve Hare

Math-Whisperer. Creator of

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Too many kids fall behind during math lessons because they don't know their math facts. Don't let this happen to your child this year. Send them to FactFreaks, the website I created to get my students up to speed with all 400 basic facts. It only takes a minute to play, they can learn their facts from scratch with the new Basic Training feature, and best of all, it's 100% free, no ads. Start giving your kid an edge in math class right now!

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@S_Oberle @JimRChristopher He's the best!

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@smarterparrot The wheels are spinning!

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In 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯, Stanislas Dehaene—one of the world’s leading cognitive neuroscientists and winner of the Nobel-equivalent Brain Prize—identifies the 4 Biological Pillars of Learning. Without all 4 of these pillars in place, learning is fragile and will not last: 🧵

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@GowagsKyle 👊!

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@mckennagene The 4 pillars map on to AI learning amazingly well - even consolidation!

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@HalfPolymath Fascinating!

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@MrsFactFreaks For that married man. ❤️

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@fhollsten Absolutely!

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@Yvan_le_reveur Thank you so much!!

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@PhonicsMom @smarterparrot It's demeaning to children. My middle schoolers 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 the superfluous cartoon characters that overloaded so many of their worksheets.

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@smarterparrot To a kid, it looks like Times Square!

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@smarterparrot I'm looking forward to it!

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@S_Oberle Thanks for this, Sarah!

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@GowagsKyle Correct!

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These requirements are pillars, not preferences, and instruction that fails to account for all 4 is failing to account for the way humans actually learn.

Instruction that 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 all 4 pillars, on the other hand…

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Pillar #4: Consolidation

New learning is initially fragile and must be consolidated into long-term memory to last. The primary mechanism is sleep: during sleep, the brain replays the day's learning at up to twenty times the speed of the original experience, transferring fragile new memories into stable long-term storage. Dehaene cites Jan Born's experiment in which participants who slept after learning a complex algorithm were twice as likely to discover a hidden shortcut as those who did not—sleep produced genuine insight, not merely retention. More instruction does not accelerate consolidation. Time, sleep, and spaced retrieval do.