Mohamad Jebara: This company pays kids to do their math homework
محمد جبارة: هذه الشركة تدفع للأطفال مقابل حل واجبات الرياضيات
Mohamad Jebara is the founder and CEO of Mathspace, an education technology product that provides students with guided feedback through the mathematics curriculum. Full bio
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I've loved mathematics.
but a two-week period
the Extension Maths course.
about this brand new topic coming up,
of negative one?
the square root of a negative."
جذر تربيعي لعدد سالب."
is the imaginary number i."
هو العدد التخيلي (ت)."
came crashing down on me.
with imaginary numbers."
let's get back with our program!"
دعونا نعود إلى برنامجنا!"
meaningless calculations,
to quadratic equations.
we previously had no answers to,
التي لم نحلها من قبل،
of imaginary numbers.
and make up these imaginary numbers,
derive these amazing identities
اشتقاق هذه الكيانات الرائعة
of appreciation for mathematics.
with the subject more than ever.
sums it up beautifully when he says,
هذا الأمر بشكل جميل فيقول:
for play, for beauty,
long enough through the difficult parts
بجهد كاف في الأجزاء الصعبة
when it all ties together.
couple of weeks in high school.
الأسبوعين في الثانوية.
in a lockstep process.
الرياضيات بإيقاع موحد -
and appreciate that beauty.
عن ذلك ليقدروا هذا الجمال.
to be skilled in mathematics.
كل شخص ماهرًا بالرياضيات.
intelligence and automation,
will either not exist
to require less routine work
and application of expertise.
the extra mathematics students
for mathematics skills rapidly increasing,
إلى زيادة في مهارات الرياضيات،
completing high school today in Australia
من الثانوية حاليًا في أستراليا
to understand any argument
election results,
على نتائج الانتخابات!
to stress my point?
starting at zero, where it should be.
من صفر حيث ينبغي أن يكون.
to influence you.
student engagement with mathematics,
a huge skills shortage crisis
by whoever can get the most air time.
من يحصل على أوقات بث أكبر.
encouraged to become teachers.
والألمع ليصبحوا معلمين.
للاختبارات عالية المخاطر.
learning approach.
القائم على الإتقان.
for eight years now.
لثمانية أعوام حتى الآن.
as a derivative trader
to help students learn mathematics.
لمساعدة الطلاب على تعلم الرياضيات.
by schools across the globe.
the program regularly.
who use the program regularly.
البرنامج بانتظام يحققون تقدما
and refining the application,
was not so much product related,
was motivating students
on their gaps in understanding.
in today's attention economy,
جذب الاهتمام الحالي،
Snapchat and PlayStation
و (سناب شات) و (البلاي ستايشن)
how we could make it worthwhile
some of their "attention budget"
spike in engagement
as soon as the novelty wore off.
عندما اعتادوا الأمر.
economist, Steven Levitt,
الاقتصاد السلوكي (ستيفين ليفيت)
who improved on their test scores.
الذين تحسنت نتائج امتحاناتهم.
about some of the things they tested for
that incentivizing students for inputs,
تحفيز الطلاب على المدخلات،
than incentivizing for outputs,
من تحفيزهم على المخرجات،
you could win them over with a trophy
يمكن تحفيزهم بجائزة
10 dollars was good,
فعشرة دولارات أمر جيد
had to be instant
the students 20 dollars and say,
الطلاب عشرين دولارًا وقالوا:
I'm going to take it back."
of implementing this in our program.
that crept in our minds.
التي تسللت إلى أذهاننا.
if the students were no longer paid?
إن توقفنا عن الدفع للطلاب؟
إلى الجانب الأخلاقي أولًا.
that we should study mathematics
بأننا ينبغي أن نتعلم الرياضيات
for truth, for justice and for love!
ومن أجل العدالة والحب!
I came to see that,
at mathematics now,
إلى الرياضيات الآن
long enough to appreciate it.
لفترة كافية كي أقدرها.
struggling with mathematics today
يعاني مع الرياضيات اليوم
in the distant future.
that's at work here,
in my derivative trading days
وقت عملي في تداول المشتقات
for a very long time.
call this hyperbolic discounting.
هذا بالخصم الزائدي.
and came to see that as a society,
to financial incentives.
by employers or at home.
أو أصحاب العمل أو في المنزل.
would pay their children
من الآباء يدفعون لأبنائهم
for doing chores in the house.
all that controversial.
of how we were going to fund this.
وهو كيف سنمول ذلك.
in their children's education.
الأكثر استثمارًا في تعليم أبنائهم.
a weekly subscription fee
their weekly maths goal,
directly into the child's bank account.
إلى الحساب البنكي للطفل.
rather than performance
for the students to care.
my wife about this new business model.
لأول مرة عن نموذج العمل الجديد.
that I've gone completely mad,
does their homework, which you want,
بأداء واجبهم، كما تريد،
which you don't want.
an antibusiness model,
but you pay if you don't.
ولكنه مكلف إن لم تفعل.
was going to jump on
sure we'd go bust pretty quickly,
the country's maths skills crisis.
مهارات الرياضيات بالبلاد.
a double bottom line,
a return for investors
to long-term profitability
should never be at odds.
their weekly maths goal,
How is this crazy business model going?
هذا النموذج التجاري المجنون؟
we're still in business.
for the last five months
الخمسة شهور الماضية،
home users in Australia
rolling it out to schools.
who are completing their weekly maths goal
الذين يكملون هدفهم الأسبوعي
completing their homework than not.
to be pretty steady, at around 75 percent.
تقريبًا عند 75 بالمائة.
our weekly subscription fee
رسوم الاشتراك الأسبوعية
we're rewarding the students.
some money on the table here,
than students not on the reward program.
من أقرانهم خارج برنامج المكافآت.
a lower revenue per user
على عائد أقل لكل مستخدم
if they were no longer paid?
than just a subject you study at school.
the world around us.
the more you want to know.
will be the incentive
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mohamad Jebara - Education entrepreneurMohamad Jebara is the founder and CEO of Mathspace, an education technology product that provides students with guided feedback through the mathematics curriculum.
Why you should listen
Mohamad Jebara began his career as a derivatives trader where he became the youngest senior partner at a leading international firm after just four years. Yet he found himself eager to build value of a different kind -- so he quit to become a mathematics teacher. Mathspace is his effort to extend his enthusiasm for numbers to as many classrooms as possible.
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