This U.S. Olympiad Coach Has a Unique Approach to Math

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  • @blackpenredpen
    @blackpenredpen 3 года назад +6326

    He is such a great person! I am fortunate enough to know him.

    • @Ghost____Rider
      @Ghost____Rider 3 года назад +67

      Didn't expect to see you here Steve!

    • @alexisgelis
      @alexisgelis 3 года назад +59

      The man, the King, the Legend

    • @BlueSoulTiger
      @BlueSoulTiger 3 года назад +17

      Nice recommendation bprp. I'd be interested though: is there any point at which your thinking about teaching diverges from Po-Shen Loh's?

    • @aybaws
      @aybaws 3 года назад +2

      Wow!!! That's so cool! How well do you know him?

    • @CDChester
      @CDChester 3 года назад +4

      Damn beat me to another one Steve!

  • @hongvicodes
    @hongvicodes 3 года назад +2249

    I’m in awe with him saying that talented people makes him optimistic rather than jealous.

    • @aduhaneh1057
      @aduhaneh1057 3 года назад +49

      Yeah pretty cool. Imagine how awful it would be if ur teacher is jealous of ur talents 😂

    • @ashwanikumarpasi5152
      @ashwanikumarpasi5152 3 года назад +20

      It hurts when your student shows off his/her skills in front of you and takes a glare like "look I can do better than you", but this guy is definitely a legend.

    • @bb2fiddler
      @bb2fiddler 3 года назад +5

      idk what you mean, I love teaching people who are smarter than me

    • @arezzo5340
      @arezzo5340 3 года назад +2

      So noble...

    • @v3le
      @v3le 3 года назад +4

      ​@@bb2fiddler these kids are smarter because they can learn faster and more open to new concepts, but the teacher has more experience and knowledge... that is all about

  • @bacondog6862
    @bacondog6862 3 года назад +2350

    How can a man who got a 4.3 at CalTech and was a Churchill scholar be so humble and say that other people are brighter than he? He’s really a gift to the mathematics community.

    • @otheraccount5252
      @otheraccount5252 3 года назад +213

      The key to becoming great is knowing who is greater.

    • @letsthink8245
      @letsthink8245 3 года назад +217

      Once you become arrogant with your knowledge is the second you stop learning the best you can because you assume you are correct. Keeping a humble attitude can do wonders for having an open mind and always improving with your learning.

    • @bacondog6862
      @bacondog6862 3 года назад +31

      @@letsthink8245 definitely agree. Math has basically said to me remember how you used to be good at things? Well now you’re not. Abstract algebra has humbled me for sure. Though people like Hadamard were just fine thinking nobody else could compare in intellect.

    • @jefflittle8913
      @jefflittle8913 3 года назад +46

      "How can a man who got a 4.3 at CalTech and was a Churchill scholar be so humble and say that other people are brighter than he?"
      Another perspective. It takes someone really smart to actually know how dumb they are compared with Richard Feynman. Hearing people say that Richard Feynman is smart because he put sticks on top of sugar cubes to hold windows open (to deal with possible rain) is like hearing people say "Oh, you are a software engineer? Please help me with my password."

    • @Chad.Commenter
      @Chad.Commenter 3 года назад +50

      @@jefflittle8913 what that tells is that Richard Feynman lives somewhere with no ants.

  • @vittoriopiaser9233
    @vittoriopiaser9233 3 года назад +2013

    I hope every maths teacher in the world sees and really understand this.

    • @BlueSoulTiger
      @BlueSoulTiger 3 года назад +19

      Every teacher.

    • @vittoriopiaser9233
      @vittoriopiaser9233 3 года назад +62

      @@tbird-z1r that’s where you’re wrong, my friend: nobody should ever stop to learn, especially about his own profession. Just because someone is a teacher, it doesn’t mean he’s learnt everything.

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 3 года назад +6

      @@vittoriopiaser9233 If I could just find a way to convey this to my students.

    • @BlueSoulTiger
      @BlueSoulTiger 3 года назад +5

      @@lonestarr1490 You've identified a problem - that's actually a great start. Having done that, you're now seeking a solution, a creative one. I know - it seems obvious, but it's good to be explicit about such things. There'll be no "magic bullet" as the solution'll be context-dependent: depends on you, your students, the learning culture, parental support and expectations, institutional parameters, etc. Po-Shen Loh reminds us that doing math helps us solve problems in other domains too, esp. when we don't know where to start. So, go forth and solve your problem! Believe you can do it : )

    • @pineapplegodguy
      @pineapplegodguy 3 года назад +1

      Questo è quello che provo a fare ogni giorno in classe; sfidare il pensiero, per stimolare la creatività. Per le spiegazioni della teoria uso RUclips, il tempo in classe è prezioso per imparare ad imparare, a trovare soluzioni innovative ed a collaborare.

  • @BrandedStatusWristwear
    @BrandedStatusWristwear 3 года назад +5512

    His glasses show he knows he is in a matrix world.

    • @bhavyajain638
      @bhavyajain638 3 года назад +33

      I was gonna comment the same thing. Lol

    • @scuffedpixel
      @scuffedpixel 3 года назад +57

      I can already see him as the one super overwhelming mentor kinda guy to the protagonist and he absolutely adores the protagonist

    • @jesse630
      @jesse630 3 года назад +11

      He is a legend

    • @barneystinson3273
      @barneystinson3273 3 года назад +3

      If glasses on true iam in matrix

    • @luisramrod9121
      @luisramrod9121 3 года назад +6

      No it just shows how bright the sun is lol

  • @akhiljalan11
    @akhiljalan11 3 года назад +454

    1:17 This is so important. Po-Shen has that long-term vision which ensures he's not just going to train excellent math competition winners, but in fact the next generation of great mathematicians, scientists, engineers...love to see it!

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB 3 года назад

      Lies again? Vigrx Plus

    • @18890426
      @18890426 2 года назад

      Totally agree

  • @aviralarpan5503
    @aviralarpan5503 3 года назад +826

    "Maths is distilled heart of thinking "

    • @nishanth6403
      @nishanth6403 3 года назад +14

      A Very true and beautiful quote if u ask me .

    • @aviralarpan5503
      @aviralarpan5503 3 года назад +2

      @@nishanth6403 indeed

    • @arpansatpathi9645
      @arpansatpathi9645 3 года назад

      Hey! Could you explain that line? Unable to relate to it.

    • @SuperSohaizai
      @SuperSohaizai 3 года назад +16

      @@arpansatpathi9645 Logic at its finest. What he said after that seems to explain pretty well, "if something else was true, something else is always true"

    • @aviralarpan5503
      @aviralarpan5503 3 года назад +7

      @@arpansatpathi9645 thinking comes in many varieties. What he meant was that maths is the purest form of thinking.

  • @ourtube4266
    @ourtube4266 3 года назад +671

    He sounds like a great mind and fun mathematics coach. I’m glad he’s not an engineering professor because he’s the type to make you derive every single equation you use on the test lol.

    • @Safwan.Hossain
      @Safwan.Hossain 3 года назад +4

      lol

    • @TheIdiothead
      @TheIdiothead 3 года назад +6

      Lolol well that’s what math is

    • @xcastel6234
      @xcastel6234 3 года назад +20

      Derivation is fun, I would do it for every physics class in Uni during exams

    • @ourtube4266
      @ourtube4266 3 года назад +73

      @@xcastel6234 I’m an engineer bro. I get paid to do useful work not hard work haha

    • @khientbryanmedequillo1166
      @khientbryanmedequillo1166 3 года назад +28

      @@ourtube4266 this reply confirms you are definitely a rockstar engineer.

  • @gelindark
    @gelindark 3 года назад +30

    Oh man, "getting students thinking about how they might come up with an idea on how to solve a problem, as opposed to having students be used to the idea that someone else is gonna show them what to do and than they're just going to copy it."
    This is true for ALL of education and I believe Po-Shen just put his finger on the most important thing to change in our approach to teaching.
    Cheers from Montreal :)

  • @volvok7749
    @volvok7749 3 года назад +279

    I hope his views on teaching will permeate the education system and that the next generations will be taught smarter, more practical and more comprehensive forms of math.

    • @prysrek8858
      @prysrek8858 3 года назад +11

      But his approach would only benefit gifted children, while most of the others would be staying even more behind in maths.
      Setting this up in a general education system would end up bad.

    • @nicosmind3
      @nicosmind3 3 года назад +12

      State education is about training children to memorise, its not about teaching kids how to think. And its not like they dont have the time to teach them that way, and its not harder. Its actually much easier, kids are more engaged, they learn quicker, and the happily spend more time studying (cause theyre actually interested, theyre having fun after all). Its how were naturally wired so its not fighting nature.
      But the state wants people stupid, to repeat soundbites the media and politicians say, and to be fooled into thinking thats knowledge. So many people dont understand the soundbites they say, and have zero abilty to even back it up. They often dont have the brains to search the net. Its quite sad really

    • @HR-pz7ts
      @HR-pz7ts 3 года назад

      If there's a new theory you must memorize it that's how it rolls.

    • @sreyanmajumder8517
      @sreyanmajumder8517 3 года назад

      @@prysrek8858 no

    • @prysrek8858
      @prysrek8858 3 года назад

      @@sreyanmajumder8517 yes

  • @BlueSoulTiger
    @BlueSoulTiger 3 года назад +131

    An enlightened teacher. We probably disagree about something, but it wasn't here in this clip. Admirable.

  • @ipsharoy7398
    @ipsharoy7398 3 года назад +486

    It is the short-tempered and bad math teachers who make students hate maths.

    • @Zei33
      @Zei33 3 года назад +17

      I totally disagree. I had a very patient and good math teacher in high school but I was just outright bad at math. My biggest problem was that there didn’t seem to be any hard rules on how to show your work. So I tried so hard to show each step but always got marked down because it wasn’t ‘right’. Anyway, still not a fan of math although I use some basic math daily as a programmer.

    • @prithujsarkar2010
      @prithujsarkar2010 3 года назад +13

      @@Zei33 not everyone has such math teachers :(

    • @henrytep8884
      @henrytep8884 3 года назад +6

      It's could be a number if things that lead to bad math experience. Horrible teacher, horrible class size, and horrible parents. To learn and study math, sometimes you just need the proper tool or proper perspective. I do believe that everyone is capable of having a good knowledge of math up to calculus, and those more gifted will get past linear algebra. Most people will never need math skills past arithmetic.

    • @iammilkyway2761
      @iammilkyway2761 3 года назад +5

      @@Zei33 you are definently gonna have problems learning machine learning AREN'tcha ?

    • @sanidhya3370
      @sanidhya3370 3 года назад

      Ive had good teachers, but i still hated maths throughout my life

  • @sethgilbertson2474
    @sethgilbertson2474 3 года назад +29

    I’m a 4th grade math teacher and this is how I have tried to teach math over the past 4 years. Very rewarding!

  • @salma-oj7rf
    @salma-oj7rf 3 года назад +7

    "The man in the class is not an ordinary teacher" so true ...he looks so passionate nd enjoying with what his doing ... am not a math person but he made think different abt it nd wish to give my self a chance to love math...teachers have a big impact on students toward modules and his doing great .
    I enjoyed listening to him

  • @nothingnowhere2358
    @nothingnowhere2358 3 года назад +6

    It's honestly amazing. The way this man talks about maths, it as though he's gone beyond doing it and viewing it as an activity, but rather a language of it's own. And he speaks it very fluently. But he says it's more so just a method of pure thinking

  • @mohdirfanmohdismail506
    @mohdirfanmohdismail506 3 года назад +2

    Po-Shen - being a coach gives me the opportunity to see people who are so much more talented than me and to know that the future is bright that gives me the optimism to keep carrying forward in life you
    huge respect for Po-Shen!!!

  • @hommies8921
    @hommies8921 3 года назад +61

    There is a book of Paul Lockhart called "Measurement". The book is exactly about what this coach is telling. To not teach to memorice how solve a problem but let people resolve by themselves, less textbook problems, more competition problems!

    • @mathgoldmedalist
      @mathgoldmedalist 3 года назад

      👌

    • @ramrajyabharat
      @ramrajyabharat 2 года назад

      @thisisankit search करिए mere sir hai please jakr dekhe unhe sapport kare 👍

  • @simplydoz
    @simplydoz 3 года назад +1

    This man has so much energy and happiness. What a great example of somone whose job may seem dull or uninteresting, excelling and having fun!

  • @pablouribe1522
    @pablouribe1522 3 года назад +11

    This guy is amazing, in such a short video i already know what kind human being he is! Nice content, we need more teachers like him.

  • @jujujujujulian
    @jujujujujulian 3 года назад +20

    I love his enthusiasm for teaching, what a great person:)

  • @prithujsarkar2010
    @prithujsarkar2010 3 года назад +7

    What an unbelievably passionate and amazing teacher , now a days parents and teachers only promote mugging up school skeet instead of these beautiful competitions and problems, hope everyone gets a teacher like Prof Po Shen Loh in his / her future

  • @ayoubkaboul3548
    @ayoubkaboul3548 2 года назад +2

    I'm always so happy to see someone talk about their passion so vehemently and enthusiasticly especially when they're optimistic about relaying their interest to others because they actually care about doing so in a way that invokes interest.
    Also he's such a charismatic guy! He's smashing the stereotypes of mathematicians being dorky and awkward.

  • @bruhnling33
    @bruhnling33 3 года назад +79

    A mathematician's lament. It's a beautiful essay and if you don't like to read there's a video from tibees that discusses it in detail. It so perfectly describes the beauty of math and how catastrophically schools fail to teach it. Of all arts, math is the most underappreciated

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 года назад +1

      To call math an "art" is quite a stretch of the term

    • @bruhnling33
      @bruhnling33 3 года назад +29

      @@pbj4184 Art: the expression or application of human skill and imagination; producing works to be primarily appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. This is math, and don't be mistaken that math work is done because it's somehow useful or practical, it may coincidentally be, but math for the sake of math, pure math, is pure fantasy and that's where it's beauty lies. Math is the art of reason. Not to be sappy or dramatic, or, God forbid, start an argument in the comments of a RUclips video, but math has a very powerful emotional effect on me and I only wish I could more easily let others see what I see in it

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 года назад +4

      @@bruhnling33 "Art" of reason lmao. We can copy definitions from online dictionaries all day long but the important thing is how words are used.
      The word "art" is often used as the opposite of "science" in that "art" is said to be emotional and more human centric whereas "science" is stoic, rational and logic centric. Now I know math is purely abstract and is not bound to the universe's laws like how the other sciences are. Math is only bound by logic. Sure I get that. But otherwise math is more close to the sciences than it could ever be to art.
      Don't get me wrong, I enjoy math too. It tickles all the good spots in me too but just that doesn't make it an art

    • @pbj4184
      @pbj4184 3 года назад +1

      @@bruhnling33 I know the feeling you're talking about. Being very curious and then slowly learning more and more of the topic until you see the logical structure for yourself. Very neat indeed!

    • @lordx4641
      @lordx4641 3 года назад +1

      @@bruhnling33 when there is no communication with the subject humans will frown away from it. If they see no meaning in where things are going,How are they happening,What are they and why are they

  • @inigoaraluce8493
    @inigoaraluce8493 3 года назад +353

    I'm a 3rd year mathematics grad student, what I wouldn't give for him to be my teacher...

    • @Ensource
      @Ensource 3 года назад +22

      he does live stream daily challenge. youtube it

    • @inigoaraluce8493
      @inigoaraluce8493 3 года назад +2

      @@Ensource wow thks!!

    • @riddhimanna8437
      @riddhimanna8437 3 года назад +1

      @@Ensource thanks!

    • @triton62674
      @triton62674 3 года назад +1

      @@Ensource thanks

    • @izak5775
      @izak5775 3 года назад +4

      You mean “would”

  • @prakash_77
    @prakash_77 3 года назад +6

    Every student deserves a teacher like Po-Shen Loh.

  • @mike814031
    @mike814031 3 года назад +1

    We need more ppl like him in this world! What an amazing teacher and a hell of a great person. He's making it fun, and incorporating one of the best things you can- getting ppl to think about what they're doing and come up with new solutions

  • @peeper2070
    @peeper2070 3 года назад +57

    3:05 so that explains the shades

  • @rextransformation7418
    @rextransformation7418 3 года назад +1

    What he said at the end... just wow, what an incredibly humble person. I mean, seriously.

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 3 года назад +188

    Very interesting and worthwhile video. Problem solving courses should be more widespread in American schools. This may help in diminishing the foolishness and conspiracy theories that are taking hold of American society.

    • @proximacentaur1654
      @proximacentaur1654 3 года назад +4

      Yes. Well said.

    • @VashishtJain
      @VashishtJain 3 года назад +6

      some dumb people might believe in conspiracies, but if u beileve evertything your told to, then yore no better!

    • @aaryajain6396
      @aaryajain6396 3 года назад +9

      @@VashishtJain you can prove math

    • @proximacentaur1654
      @proximacentaur1654 3 года назад +1

      @@aaryajain6396 yes. no one is suggesting that we believe everything we're told to.

    • @christophercano4809
      @christophercano4809 3 года назад +1

      @@VashishtJain They tell you to believe stuff? 🤔 When?

  • @yugsth2236
    @yugsth2236 3 года назад +354

    "Right now, we're dealing with CoViD. If that was a text book problem, we would be done by now."

    • @haziqridzwan5199
      @haziqridzwan5199 3 года назад +25

      The text book after hearing this: guess what?

    • @Walawala459
      @Walawala459 3 года назад +3

      Ha ha ha , a philosopher!

    • @mathgoldmedalist
      @mathgoldmedalist 3 года назад

      👌

    • @jackwu7028
      @jackwu7028 3 года назад

      You see, there is a difference between textbook problems and exam problems

    • @yugsth2236
      @yugsth2236 3 года назад +1

      @@jackwu7028 ... difference between textbook problems, exam problems, and real-world problems

  • @infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836
    @infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836 3 года назад +295

    Who else was wondering how quickly someone could climb the wall behind him?

  • @markvyber2458
    @markvyber2458 3 года назад +7

    I'm so happy to see all of this positiveness about math. Unfortunately I studied math at university and "rote boring and about memorization" sums up my experience pretty well. I really hope it will change and videos like this go in the right direction

  • @arleneazurin
    @arleneazurin 3 года назад +868

    It’s so sad that subjects like Math is being taught the wrong way.

    • @theamazingone5217
      @theamazingone5217 3 года назад +83

      Yeah
      The guy mentioned how people think that math is memorization, even though everything in math is creativity and a logical conclusion. This happens because teachers (like mine), do not show the proofs so you don't have any idea where they came from.

    • @joriankell1983
      @joriankell1983 3 года назад +6

      That's on purpose

    • @haziqridzwan5199
      @haziqridzwan5199 3 года назад +16

      @@theamazingone5217 and I learned by my own how they did that. Trust me if u wanna excel in math, its ez. U just tighten up ur basic, and u ready to go.

    • @theamazingone5217
      @theamazingone5217 3 года назад +7

      @@haziqridzwan5199 I know very well how to learn maths, but most of my friends have no idea why things work the way they do and just follow the professor.
      And they have it much harder to learn because of the way they're being taught.

    • @haziqridzwan5199
      @haziqridzwan5199 3 года назад +3

      @@theamazingone5217 wow, you are in same place as im 🤣 . Wow I just wow finally I ever see someone who's in the same situation as me 🤣🤣 man im happy to know at least there's someone who is same as me. 😁

  • @sofiyavyshnya6723
    @sofiyavyshnya6723 3 года назад +1

    100% respect! If everyone taught like this, students would enjoy learning for the sake of curiosity and exploration, and people would actually retain more information that they come across!

  • @rajivsukesh6281
    @rajivsukesh6281 3 года назад +23

    The smile at the end shows how he feels about the future

  • @technowey
    @technowey 3 года назад +1

    What he said at the end made me realize that he is a great person, as well as being a great teacher.

  • @zane62135
    @zane62135 3 года назад +5

    Wow, this is so awesome and inspiring. This dude is 10000x smarter than the average person, yet he is excited by the intelligence of those around him...

  • @afrinahmed1620
    @afrinahmed1620 3 года назад +1

    Mathematics is the essence that everything is built with and so solve it as just a problem. The books are there to tell you the concepts and methods only not how to think. You are so passionate man, love from India👍💚

  • @sherryhere8498
    @sherryhere8498 3 года назад +3

    I really like his energy. Such a positive person!

  • @reimannx33
    @reimannx33 3 года назад +1

    Poetic in his use of language.
    Original in his craft of mathematics.
    Inspired in his being as a teacher.

  • @adithyas9288
    @adithyas9288 3 года назад +21

    The last lines brought me to tears.. 🥺🥺🤧

    • @mathgoldmedalist
      @mathgoldmedalist 3 года назад +1

      👍

    • @mellowblueu
      @mellowblueu 3 года назад +2

      me too! what the heck! I have never heard anyone say that 😭☺️ a coach who want most of their student to be way more ahead and talented than himself as the coach

  • @manamritsingh969
    @manamritsingh969 3 года назад +1

    Developing understanding of math on your own is one thing, it is definitely not an easy task and takes time. But teaching and getting that understanding through to the other person from scratch is a truly behemoth task. This is why I really respect good teachers. This man is a genius.

  • @proximacentaur1654
    @proximacentaur1654 3 года назад +7

    Well done that man. Glad I watched. I feel better.

  • @abhinavsharma6378
    @abhinavsharma6378 3 года назад

    " Math is the distilled heart of thinking" One of the most beautiful i've ever heard..

  • @kaushikdr
    @kaushikdr 3 года назад +8

    Love this guy - I feel the same way about learning!

  • @gamemakingkirb667
    @gamemakingkirb667 4 месяца назад

    My friends sometimes ask me why I like math-the reason’s different from what he started-but it often leads me to question why they don’t see it the same way as me.
    He addressed that well-much better than my attempts at organizing that thought.

  • @f5673-t1h
    @f5673-t1h 3 года назад +76

    That line at the end was so cute 😭😭😭

  • @tom3and3jerry5
    @tom3and3jerry5 3 года назад +1

    Being humble and intelligent made him the best coach of American olympiad

  • @jimmywang2041
    @jimmywang2041 3 года назад +5

    My wife always say the more one has, one should mimic that of a fruit tree: humbles and lowers itself so that others may enjoy. He is a great tree.

  • @anaghasiddheshwar3573
    @anaghasiddheshwar3573 3 года назад +1

    I first saw him in a video about the most beautiful equation in the world. His teaching amused me. Surely a great teacher

  • @SoCalFreelance
    @SoCalFreelance 3 года назад +110

    Tell those H.S. students eating well, good sleep, and fitness plays a part in keeping their minds sharp.

    • @omniyambot9876
      @omniyambot9876 3 года назад +11

      It's not like they're not smart enough to realize these.

    • @SoCalFreelance
      @SoCalFreelance 3 года назад +14

      @@omniyambot9876 Are you kidding? H.S. students do all those things wrong. And they don't need to take Po-Shen's word for it. Just show them day-in-the-life videos of Google and Amazon employees where all those factors (eating well, quality sleep, fitness and wellness) are imbued into their daily routine.

    • @fizziz_1035
      @fizziz_1035 3 года назад +3

      Thank you for your comment, I shall now resume my exercises

    • @rdc489
      @rdc489 3 года назад +6

      @@SoCalFreelance nah i disagree, most if not all h.s. student know how important these things are, they just couldn't be bothered doing it out of a number of reasons

    • @romuluspalaiologosxiii5171
      @romuluspalaiologosxiii5171 3 года назад +2

      not everyone needs to be a good student lol

  • @mubumubu5975
    @mubumubu5975 3 года назад +1

    The sheer optimism and joy he oozes. There is hope!

  • @Eigenbros
    @Eigenbros 3 года назад +9

    This dude is a real one 🔥

  • @elitefamilyparkour
    @elitefamilyparkour 2 года назад

    This dudes teaching philosophy is so inspiration and should be a guidance to every teacher.

  • @michaelterrell5061
    @michaelterrell5061 3 года назад +78

    Are there alternating coaches each year? because from what I can tell there have been three different teachers in since 2018. Also I hope I manage to go to the international mathematical Olympiad when I get to high school next year.

  • @chengtony9891
    @chengtony9891 3 года назад +1

    Learning how to solve problems is so much better than learning the solution to a specific problem and hoping that it will translate into another

  • @Harish-ou4dy
    @Harish-ou4dy 3 года назад +7

    then I had my school teacher, who used to give me zero marks in exams if I attempted same problem with a method not taught by her.

    • @boxYFA
      @boxYFA 3 года назад +1

      that's sad and kind of rude for me...I mean if there can be several approach made to the problem, why can't those other approach be used?

    • @ejazshaikh2863
      @ejazshaikh2863 3 года назад +1

      India Lol 😂

    • @steady640
      @steady640 3 года назад

      Same here.

  • @brandiepop
    @brandiepop 5 месяцев назад +1

    Math is in its own way an art and understanding that makes you better at it

  • @abdulmajid8296
    @abdulmajid8296 3 года назад +4

    His last sentences and smile. So pure ❤️

  • @dinohunter7176
    @dinohunter7176 3 года назад +1

    I love his positive way of speaking about math. I hear others too speaking about math but not in such way. Thanks, I would like to see some classes from him

  • @auricia201
    @auricia201 3 года назад +4

    2:30 This 👌🏻 Yes, please, and thank you 😁

  • @JishnuChatterjee
    @JishnuChatterjee 3 года назад

    Last 20 seconds were the BEST, hats off to this coach!

  • @wgoode97
    @wgoode97 3 года назад +5

    I wish I'd had a math teacher like that. I feel like I've lost math in my life

  • @vinesthemonkey
    @vinesthemonkey 11 месяцев назад

    Po-Shen's Putnam Seminar was always full and eagerly attended. I loved it. It was less theory and more about problem solving and deducing patterns.

  • @annonYk
    @annonYk 3 года назад +45

    He looks like wu zi from gta sa in those black shades 🤣🤣🤣

    • @0ako
      @0ako 3 года назад +1

      WU ZI MU IN THE FLESH

  • @KevanJayasooriya
    @KevanJayasooriya Год назад

    Dr. Po is truly a genius, although he has very little self-esteem for his own, unique intelligence which others all over the world admire so deeply in and out of mathematics. He is a true fanatic of the academic community, a man purely motivated by the will to teach, create and inspire an even brighter next generation, and possibly many more to come influenced by his daring motivation to stretch capability over its limit...

  • @zookaroo2132
    @zookaroo2132 3 года назад +1608

    Meanwhile somewhere in America: "Is math racist?"

    • @vibatkevin
      @vibatkevin 3 года назад +45

      This is somewhere in America? Racist much? Cuz he’s Asian?

    • @drozfarnyline4940
      @drozfarnyline4940 3 года назад +6

      😂😂😂

    • @Frestho
      @Frestho 3 года назад +214

      This, unironically, is my school district. They removed Algebra 1 from middle school for some bullshit equity reasons.

    • @ableone8956
      @ableone8956 3 года назад +84

      Ignore America they are insane

    • @semicharmedkindofguy3088
      @semicharmedkindofguy3088 3 года назад +14

      *somewhere else, because this is also in america

  • @tukity
    @tukity 3 года назад +1

    So much optimism and positivity! I love it

  • @keithteo9007
    @keithteo9007 3 года назад +9

    His students are so bright he has to wear sunglasses

    • @boxYFA
      @boxYFA 3 года назад

      wow...yes very true

  • @beyondtherice8277
    @beyondtherice8277 3 года назад +2

    He gave a really interesting seminar about the outdatedness of the quadratic formula.

  • @rohanrogers720
    @rohanrogers720 3 года назад +10

    "Help the world making a thinking place "
    Maybe Karen's and boomers can use that

  • @OFarrillColon
    @OFarrillColon 3 года назад

    This coach is great because he wants greatness for his students. This makes his work effortless

  • @KALAMKAAR_Official
    @KALAMKAAR_Official 3 года назад +3

    Mathematics is the one which makes us to see and understand World in a different and logical way

  • @rf5129
    @rf5129 3 года назад +2

    I took a class with him at CMU. He is a great teacher.

  • @chamber3593
    @chamber3593 3 года назад +4

    I am happy and I don't know why?

  • @SebastianHasch
    @SebastianHasch 3 года назад +2

    nice video, but the framerate change at 0:31 really caught me off guard

  • @ublazedlp4259
    @ublazedlp4259 3 года назад +3

    Can you add youtube subtitles or in-vid-subs for people like me who have difficulties hearing or understanding accents from people especially if those are strong accents
    I would so appreciate it, thanks^^
    good interview

  • @awesomecodeyay8382
    @awesomecodeyay8382 2 года назад +2

    Correction: 0:41 I think the USA IMO has the second most gold medals. It’s second to China

  • @yashshukla491
    @yashshukla491 3 года назад +4

    Maths is all fun nd logical stuffs until u get stuck in a problem nd spent 2-3 hrs figuring out what went wrong...

  • @vincentfan8323
    @vincentfan8323 3 года назад +1

    I’m positive he’s the guy from the most beautiful equation in math video, his passion is just beautiful if I could have a quarter of his passion I wouldn’t be having a horrible grade in math rn

  • @aurobhatta
    @aurobhatta 3 года назад +7

    I like how the students who are competing for the US are Indians and Chinese

    • @MPRStig
      @MPRStig 3 года назад

      Diversity is their strength, apparently

    • @deand.l.2049
      @deand.l.2049 3 года назад

      The biggest strength of the USA.

  • @cocoacaramel314
    @cocoacaramel314 3 года назад

    Reminds me all of my Math Teacher, I mean the all stereotype in the whole internet was wrong when I came to my class. Sometimes they insert great thought in their own inspirational way. For teachers outta there, my thanks for the all of your effort to push me till what I achieve today.

  • @anonymous-ll4bw
    @anonymous-ll4bw 3 года назад +3

    When america hires chinese tutors to teach asian students to compete in a math test for america to beat asian competitors

    • @perry6660
      @perry6660 3 года назад

      *Chinese-Americans and Asian-Americans, they are still American, that's what matters most.

  • @dixmit2004
    @dixmit2004 3 года назад

    He is so full of positive energy....great!!

  • @shubhamvishwakarma8309
    @shubhamvishwakarma8309 3 года назад +20

    I guess,if he come to Indian cbse schools,then he'll immediately leave india

    • @clumsygallium6104
      @clumsygallium6104 3 года назад +5

      Totally depends on the teacher, Ncert Maths is a decent book.

    • @kaklisarangi2550
      @kaklisarangi2550 3 года назад

      @@clumsygallium6104 not at all.

    • @clumsygallium6104
      @clumsygallium6104 3 года назад +5

      @@kaklisarangi2550 Tum fir wohi log ho jo job nahi hai job nahi hai karte rehte ho.

    • @kaklisarangi2550
      @kaklisarangi2550 3 года назад +1

      @@clumsygallium6104 ncert maths padh ke jee bhi nhi nikal sakte, aur yahan baat olympiads ki chal rhi hai. Kaise decent book hua? Aur jobs se kya hai? Those who study outside the box and have better skills will get better jobs. End of discussion.

    • @clumsygallium6104
      @clumsygallium6104 3 года назад +3

      @@kaklisarangi2550 abe pretty decent book hai, usko solve karke base to bana le. Bada aaye moti moti kitaabe karne.
      Maine Ncert ki hai, uske baad Ye Moti Moti kitabe (8+) solve ki hai.
      Aur abhi 2 din mein Jee Main dunga, 12th class mein hun.
      Result bhi bata dunga, par kehna ye chahta hun ki NCERT Pretty decent hai Maths ki.

  • @joshn7232
    @joshn7232 3 года назад

    The US is fortunate to have this man and those students living within its borders

  • @judahpereira6764
    @judahpereira6764 3 года назад +18

    The kid's nerdiness actually only comes out when they're playing sports.

  • @chaos.n.cosmos
    @chaos.n.cosmos 3 года назад

    He's such an amazing man and a teacher 👏 Never before have I been so inspired or even impressed by someone talking about mathematics 😮👏

  • @prat-man
    @prat-man 3 года назад +11

    He looks like one of the brothers from Shaolin Soccer

  • @diegovillarreal7484
    @diegovillarreal7484 3 года назад +2

    Mad respect! Certainly someone to look up to, I want to be like him when I grow up

  • @Kolinnor
    @Kolinnor 3 года назад +4

    In the meanwhile, all my teachers at the university : "yeah, I don't think this has any utility, but you should learn it by heart for the exams" FFS
    Now I'm kinda having this issue where I don't enjoy math anymore, even though I loved it...

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 года назад +1

      Oh god, when you learn real math, it is AWESOME. Read some stuff on infinite sets, and how they come in different sizes. Also, number theory is accessible. They say have calculus first, but there's tons you can do for starters without knowing any calculus. Same with combinatorics and probability. Then when you see why calc is so useful, you'll be motivated.
      Logic is useful everywhere, but I have to warn you, the less other people use it, the more they will think it's you who's weird. Most people believe that a strong feeling is a guide to truth.

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 года назад

      University? That's how our high school was. That is terrible.

    • @Kolinnor
      @Kolinnor 3 года назад

      @@l.w.paradis2108 Bruh, I'm learning Hilbert spaces, Galois theory and distribution theory, and I don't doubt any second there are geometric/intuitive interpretations, but the whole is just a huge mess of learning by heart and definition - theorem - corollary, at my uni

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 года назад

      @@Kolinnor Omg, you are grad level. Had no idea. It is beyond belief that your profs have that attitude toward math. That doesn't compute. Didn't mean to pun.
      Do they leave you no free time to pursue your interests, and figure out the deeper patterns and how they may relate to other fields? Or are you being suffocated with this anti-intuitive rot? When I was a math undergrad and had friends doing PhDs, I realized what the difference was between them (gifted) and me (not; I just liked it and found it exciting): they would "just know" the answer, then slog through a proof. Their spatial intuition was magic. Me, it was about how words fit together, straight verbal reasoning. Very deficient in spatial intuition. Ended up getting a philosophy degree, with nearly a second major in math. ;(
      A question occurred to me the other day: are there infinitely many Fibonacci primes? Wow when I found out it is a major unsolved problem. Most of the known Fibonacci primes are huge.
      Yeah, I love math. :/

  • @beigebets
    @beigebets 3 года назад

    Yo I listened to this guy's presentation in my city, I was even called up to do an experiment. I love this guy hes literally one of the most interesting coaches in math Olympiad history.

  • @harjeetnareshkumar5555
    @harjeetnareshkumar5555 3 года назад +18

    0:10 thats chemistry

  • @chrisray9653
    @chrisray9653 3 года назад +2

    Mathematics hardly ever goes over the inspirational personal lives of some of its greatest practitioners. Leibniz was a saint, dedicating his life to the higher morality found in mathematics and its applications. Euler was developing theorems with 23 screaming kids in his house while half-blind!

    • @speedsterh
      @speedsterh 3 года назад

      Didn't know that. Thank you ! Any anecdote on Gauss, besides the formula he found at 7 for summing integers up to a certain point ?

  • @pipopipopipopipopipo
    @pipopipopipopipopipo 3 года назад +13

    0:47 Somehow I see only focussed Asians xD

    • @boxYFA
      @boxYFA 3 года назад

      hahahaha lol...

    • @jayantjha3128
      @jayantjha3128 3 года назад +1

      I see 3 asians one white and one indian

  • @green8026
    @green8026 7 месяцев назад

    This guy rules. What an inspiration and what a teacher.

  • @KaranSharma-ew7io
    @KaranSharma-ew7io 3 года назад +3

    An asian teaching asians but wait its a US olympiad team

    • @bbutterlovers
      @bbutterlovers 3 года назад +1

      @@aman-qj5sx Apparently not

    • @KaranSharma-ew7io
      @KaranSharma-ew7io 3 года назад

      @@aman-qj5sx they just take away the juicy people and tag them as American and gain fame

  • @hey_its_travis
    @hey_its_travis 3 года назад

    If only I had any math teacher with a fraction of his teaching passion and ability,

  • @Oleg-mv6cx
    @Oleg-mv6cx 3 года назад +3

    blackpenredpen, is that 𝒚𝒐𝒖?

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen 3 года назад +4

      No. He is 1 googol times better! 😃

    • @Oleg-mv6cx
      @Oleg-mv6cx 3 года назад

      @@blackpenredpen But still, you teach much more people than him

  • @tonycamacho7473
    @tonycamacho7473 3 года назад

    It shows through DIVERSITY we are stronger. DIVERSITY is baked into America's DNA. IT is what we were are made of. America is so fortunate to have Po-Shen Loh helping our children become the best they cab be.