Mohamad Jebara: This company pays kids to do their math homework
モハマド・ジェバラ: 当社は子供達の数学の宿題に報酬を払います
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.
数学が大好きでした
本当とは言えません
but a two-week period
シニア・ハイスクールでの
the Extension Maths course.
about this brand new topic coming up,
すごくワクワクしていました
of negative one?
the square root of a negative."
とれる訳ないでしょ」
先生は言いました
is the imaginary number i."
came crashing down on me.
ガラガラと崩れ落ちました
with imaginary numbers."
let's get back with our program!"
我々の課題に戻りましょう!」
meaningless calculations,
to quadratic equations.
we previously had no answers to,
of imaginary numbers.
and make up these imaginary numbers,
楽しもうと決めたんですね
derive these amazing identities
これらの素晴らしい恒等式を
of appreciation for mathematics.
認識を得たのです
with the subject more than ever.
sums it up beautifully when he says,
いみじくも要約しています
for play, for beauty,
遊びと 美しさと
簡単なものはありません
long enough through the difficult parts
通り抜けるまで粘ってもらい
when it all ties together.
味わってもらわねば
couple of weeks in high school.
私がそうだったように
in a lockstep process.
数学に向かわせています
and appreciate that beauty.
不可能に近いと感じます
to be skilled in mathematics.
世間から要求されています
intelligence and automation,
will either not exist
存在しなくなるか
to require less routine work
and application of expertise.
より必要なものに変わるでしょう
the extra mathematics students
数学専門の学生を
for mathematics skills rapidly increasing,
急速に増加している一方
completing high school today in Australia
ハイスクールを終えた学生の半数は
to understand any argument
election results,
このデジタル時代に
to stress my point?
分かりますか?
starting at zero, where it should be.
そうしてみましょう
to influence you.
表現を操作したのです
これがここでの私の仕事です
student engagement with mathematics,
a huge skills shortage crisis
by whoever can get the most air time.
増えることになります
encouraged to become teachers.
教師になるよう勧める必要もあります
learning approach.
とることも必要です
for eight years now.
as a derivative trader
to help students learn mathematics.
作ろうと決めてから ずっとです
by schools across the globe.
世界中の学校で使われています
the program regularly.
who use the program regularly.
定期的に使う学生だけで
and refining the application,
長年費やしてきましたが
was not so much product related,
was motivating students
on their gaps in understanding.
補いたいと思わせることでした
in today's attention economy,
私達は 今日の関心経済において
Snapchat and PlayStation
プレイステーションと競争し
しているのです
how we could make it worthwhile
some of their "attention budget"
自分の教育のために
spike in engagement
改善しましたが
as soon as the novelty wore off.
すぐに元通りになりました
economist, Steven Levitt,
中心となった研究で
who improved on their test scores.
お金を払うというものでした
about some of the things they tested for
興味深い発見について
that incentivizing students for inputs,
than incentivizing for outputs,
動機づけされた者より
you could win them over with a trophy
釣ることが出来ますが
10 dollars was good,
10ドルは良くて
had to be instant
the students 20 dollars and say,
こうまで言いました
I'm going to take it back."
返してもらうからね」
of implementing this in our program.
浮足立ちました
that crept in our minds.
どこから資金を得ればいいのか?
if the students were no longer paid?
結果は持続するのか?と
that we should study mathematics
数学を学ぶべきだと
for truth, for justice and for love!
そして愛のためなんです
I came to see that,
at mathematics now,
long enough to appreciate it.
勉強してきたからにすぎないと
struggling with mathematics today
先々のために懸命に学べとは
in the distant future.
that's at work here,
訳ではありません
in my derivative trading days
高額ボーナスをもらえたと
for a very long time.
call this hyperbolic discounting.
「双曲割引」と呼んでいます
and came to see that as a society,
こう思うようになりました
to financial incentives.
奨励金慣れしていると
by employers or at home.
雇い主であれ または 家庭であれです
would pay their children
for doing chores in the house.
all that controversial.
of how we were going to fund this.
2番目の問いへの答えが浮かびました
in their children's education.
当然両親です
a weekly subscription fee
their weekly maths goal,
directly into the child's bank account.
そのまま返金することにします
rather than performance
やる気を動機づけの材料としました
for the students to care.
my wife about this new business model.
妻に話した時のことです
that I've gone completely mad,
妻が疑っていたのなら
「モー
does their homework, which you want,
which you don't want.
an antibusiness model,
but you pay if you don't.
was going to jump on
sure we'd go bust pretty quickly,
破産しています
the country's maths skills crisis.
救ったでしょうけれど
a double bottom line,
運営でした
a return for investors
両方を目指したからです
to long-term profitability
should never be at odds.
食い違ってはいません
their weekly maths goal,
学生が達成する手助けとなり
得られるようになっているかです
How is this crazy business model going?
この狂ったビジネスモデルの進み具合は?
we're still in business.
for the last five months
この5カ月間
home users in Australia
rolling it out to schools.
who are completing their weekly maths goal
表しています
completing their homework than not.
ずいぶん多いのが分かりますよね
to be pretty steady, at around 75 percent.
安定してくることが分かりました
our weekly subscription fee
we're rewarding the students.
some money on the table here,
than students not on the reward program.
70%以上も目標達成していることが分かります
a lower revenue per user
利用者当たりの収益は減っても
増やしていくことです
if they were no longer paid?
戻ってきてくれるでしょうか?
than just a subject you study at school.
はるかに超えたものです
the world around us.
してくれるもの
the more you want to know.
もっと知りたくなるものです
作ってきました
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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