Street math | Laura Overdeck | TEDxJerseyCity

Math isn’t just for the engineers and scientists out there. We all need number sense to make decisions in regular daily life. We’re bombarded with information, but we fail to put those numbers together usefully - and that leads us to make both small mistakes and big ones. See how simple street math shines light on the worst problems that we allow to continue in our society and in our own personal lives - and how being a little math savvy can turn them around.
Laura Bilodeau Overdeck is the founder of Bedtime Math, a nonprofit that helps kids love math. Over 50,000 kids and parents enjoy Overdeck’s wacky nightly math problems online and in her two books, with the third launching soon. Having garnered press in TIME Magazine, The New York Times and others, Bedtime Math has now launched Crazy 8s Club, a hands-on after-school math club for elementary-school-aged kids. Today there are more than 1,600 clubs serving over 25,000 kids, making it already the biggest after-school math club nationwide for grades K through 5.
In addition to being a social entrepreneur, Overdeck is Chair of the Overdeck Family Foundation, which supports math/science education reform. She is also Vice Chair of the Board of Liberty Science Center, and serves on the boards of Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and Governor’s School of New Jersey. She holds a BA in astrophysics from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@Loveitmore1]

Personally, I absolutely loved this talk and can't understand why there are so few likes.

[@carlosduran6474]

Absolutely revealing, thanks a lot, Laura!

[@dennisr.levesque2320]

Really good. But, beyond crunching the numbers, what was really good, was addressing the valuing it, and not just the quantifying it. Until you value the learning, you won't value the lesson. Well done.

[@tinaeden8317]

Wow, talk about a bean counter...I thought this would be about stopping distances and practical things of that nature.

[@jimjohnston6848]

Why did I not have you as a teacher in 1966?! You are very in touch.

[@pierreluc]

Boy math is watching this 18 minutes video instead of working and making money.

[@anibaljesusdelgadillo2091]

Very interesting.

[@ivanbuljanvanboelken4676]

Anibal Jesus Delgadillo Whats so god damn interesting?

[@ksmyth999]

Having taken a look at some of the SAT maths material, I don't see learning to pass SAT tests teaches kids much real maths.

[@ksmyth999]

What is DMV?

[@tonybeadle8392]

I think it's the Department of Motor Vehicles, like the DVLA in the UK.

[@mrs.b5842]

@@tonybeadle8392 correct

[@odenpetersen6028]

Money =/= Quality of life

[@MoJo01]

So what does money equal? More materials that make life easier? More time to focus on one's self and improvement? She used money as a time worth measurement. Assuming someone gets paid by an employer to perform a certain task. The higher the quality of skills and the difficulty of tasks determined the amount of money along with the industrial demand for that skills and labor supply. If someone gets $250/hour I will assume that person has a higher set of skills than someone who gets $35/Hour. Is the first person happier? his life quality is better? Not necessarily. But usually, people with better life quality and who are happy in general, tend to have better and more stable jobs .

[@moodist1er]

Oden Petersen access to resources = better life quality..

[@rleroygordon]

Try living without it. Try living with barely enough to live on. Try living with a comfortable income. Try living with more money than you know what to do with. Money does in fact relate to quality of life.

[@ShoTime017]

17 min drooling over this smart, gorgeous chick. Time well spent.

[@davidperets9997]

i am the only one who read laura overdick in the first look?

[@tonybeadle8392]

Sure looks that way.

[@janicemurphy7878]

If you're looking for answers and if you have the right formula you can come up with the answers depending on what you're trying to calculate so when we say math has its own language the first thing you have to do is talk about what part of Matthew were trying to teach the children if you're teaching them formulas the more you show them how this formula works for this and I can work again for another problem then they will learn that these formulas all have a system in their system can be used every time

[@st0ox]

Read Momo

[@gmshadowtraders]

Liked before even watching through, guys will know what I mean lol

[@VijayKumar-cx2nx]

In hindi

[@awesomesaucewin]

...she couldn't figure out that she was using more electricity because she was having more kids? seriously?

[@godhasleftthebuilding3224]

that was a jo_e

[@MoJo01]

maybe she was still in school back then and hasn't learned these stuff yet.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

No. Just demonstrating how these things correlate.

[@KAF128]

But the fact she worked out it was the clothes dryer means she could then maybe choose to buy a drying rack or a washing line - she's used the maths to give her a chance of making a saving. She could then offset that cost against the cost of condoms, obviously . . . but that's a separate calculation !

[@VijayKumar-cx2nx]

Speaking in hindi medam

[@kaperns79]

What a load of Crock.

[@therese_paula]

Something's wrong with me. I find listening to her voice very excruciating.

[@victoza9232]

Ugh...that glottal fry she has is annoying and distracting.

[@senojelyk]

Most of that was her recovering from a cold or something. She was croaking like a frog in some places. It's not nearly as bad on other videos you can find on KZbin.

[@JohnnyWishbone85]

She actually sounds sick.

[@ivanbuljanvanboelken4676]

You just want to sheng hai people in useless diferentials. Please go home,and kindly cross cancel yourself.

[@guyxmas7519]

Wow ..... Just talking that much about money sound like a waste of time to me.... What is money? Something some bank creates out of whatever regulation and laws that no one understands....