It's not too late to make a New Year's Resolution. You can still set a goal for 2024 and what better way than to learn how to harness strength in numbers to make your progress a little easier.

I’ll tell you two reasons WHY you should count your achievements. I’ll mix in a brief explanation of two types of growth as you make progress. Then we’ll look at HOW you should count your achievements.

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In this New Year’s Day episode we continue the exploration of using – you could say manipulating numbers – to help you in your goal setting. Warning: a number might have the power to offend you. Let me explain.

With the end of the year upon us and the New Year imminent, we will explore the oldest mythology and the highest altitudes so you come away with an excellent strategy in goal setting using strength in numbers.

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This episode is a sort of tangent if you will, a slight detour from our typical pattern of math content and math mindset episodes. We are going to look at New Year’s Resolutions and goal setting – and the part where we’re supposed to make them measurable. Alas, numbers are involved!

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Here we return to your mindset about math, your very motivation to do math in the first place. When you struggle with a really hard or boring word problem, haven't you questioned why you're even required to do it in the first place?

You’ve asked The Question.

What is The Question, you ask?

You know The Question. 

When am I ever going to use this?

Here, I once and for all answer the unanswerable question.

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This episode continues, um, peeling back the layers of word problems involving bananas (haha) as we write the equations that correspond to what we talked about in the last episode. There are actual equations ahead so proceed with a pencil and paper ready to go.

If you like LEGOs or ever even heard of them, they serve as a nice analogy for our approach to solving word problems.  

I know .... This is bananas!

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This episode will explore the rich and fruity world of word problems. Did I hear you groan? Trust me, it’s not as bad as you think – I’m going to take it nice and easy on you today. No equations, just apples and bananas.

I know what you’re thinking… how did I get here, listening to a podcast about math and apples?!? This is bananas!

I promise this episode will be appealing.

Maybe you've heard of the book, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". This isn't the same message, but we do have a Kindergartner who's gonna teach us a good lesson about finding a way over or even around the wall we face in many a math problem.

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Have you ever said, "I can't do math"? Of course you have. We all have. I have. But is that true? Is that kind of language helping us or hurting us?

Jump in and see how Ms. Shilawski's soup cans will help YOU build strength in numbers.

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Jimmy Buffett said it best - sang it actually. It's no Cheeseburger in Paradise, to be sure. No, Math Suks. And I agree with him.

Why would a guy who has been a teacher and tutor for 20+ years, and even produces a podcast about math, say that Math Suks?

And why do you keep spelling it that way? Ask Mr. Buffett.

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