Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen.
We just watched a video of students in Tolikara.
I made this video in July, 2011.
They studied math in only 1 month.
Before, they could not do math at all.
They were so afraid of math, no confidence.
But only in 1 month, they became students who are full of hope and so enthusiastic.
And if we saw how excited they were when answering those questions. There is we see something happening here.
What was it that changed them?
In 2008, I went to Tolikara.
an area in the heart of Papuan mountaneous region.
That area has the lowest Human Development Index in Indonesia.
When I went there,
I visited the schools.
and I was touched.
Why? Because the education level there was very low.
High school students did not know the answer to 8 + 7
They couldn’t count.
let alone doing multiplication.
The Regent said to me, “Help us!".
"Bring these students to Jakarta, show them that they can do it too.”
So we brought them to Jakarta and we trained them in Jakarta.
Miraculous!
6 months after they were trained, they could master grade 1 to grade 6 level math in 6 months.
I was impressed, “Wow, this is incredible!” This got me thinking, “Ok, I have to look in other places.”
Where should I go? Wamena.
That’s also an area in the middle of Papuan mountaneous region and we asked the Regent to give us some students to train.
He gave us 5 students and we brought them to Jakarta.
We trained them. The result is the same as the students from Tolikara that we trained.
These Papuan students can be as good as any other students from other regions in Indonesia.
I asked the Regents in Papua,
“Give us the slowest students, those who are seen as the stupidest.”
They replied, “What would you do with these students?”
I told them, “We’re going to make them world champions.”
Everyone was surprised. How can the slowest students be world champions?
So we brought the students to Jakarta, and we brought them here.
This student here, repeated a grade for 4 years, age 12 and still in Grade 2.
The Timika Regent was curious and he gave us 10 students who were already considered hopeless.
These ones are from the hills of Bintang and Puncak Jaya,
High school students but still did not know the answer to 8+3. All of them are brought here.
And these ones are straight from the jungle of Yahukimo.
They couldn’t even write.
They gathered 90 students from different parts of Papua.
And the students were trained, trained, and trained.
What happened after?
Nothing is impossible.
There is still hope for these students.
If you can see, look at the eyes of these students.
Their eyes are filled with hope, were there were none before.
After they were trained, they become incredible students.
Then, I invited them, After being trained for a few years.
I invited them to complete in various science olympics competitions.
One of them is Science & Mathematics Olympiad - Asian level.
12 of the Papuan students joined,
And they received 4 gold medals, 5 silvers and 3 bronze.
Everyone was surprised.
There was an interesting incident, during a championship in Malang.
There is a teacher in Jakarta who saw these Papuan children compete in Malang.
When they saw these children, they said, "Oh, Papua again. We lost."
And it came true. Papuan children were awarded 2nd rank, 4th rank, and 6th rank. Jakarta had none.
and this is the child who had to repeat for 4 years.
In 2011, she joined the national robot competition and won a silver medal.
In 2012, last year. She received the gold medal at the national level.
She jumped from grade 2 elementary schools to junior high school.
I have brought some of these children here.
There are 4 children.
First, Lisa Dori.
I welcome her to the stage.
Then Syors Srefle. Then Kohoin Marandey and Merlin Kogoya.
These children have been trained for 2-3 years.
We will give them questions. 10 questions.
Each question can be answered in 3 seconds.
They have not seen the questions. I made these a 4 AM this morning and sent it straight to the organizing team.
So they don't know.
Each question can be answered in 3 seconds.
OK, let’s see. Ladies and gentlemen. You can count with them also.
Question number 1. What is X?
What is it? / 6... 6...
6. Let’s look at the answer. Yes!
Ready? Question number 2.
√5.. / Ok. Let’s look at the answer. Is it right?
Yes, that's correct!
Next, let’s see..
2 x 55 squared. What is the answer?
6,050…
6,050.. Let’s look at the answer. Wow! Amazing!
Next, let’s see…
Please, whoever can answer the quickest.
125 x 46 x 8 = ?
46,000 / what is it? / 46,000
46,000… Let’s see if it’s correct?
Amazing!
Let’s give them more questions.
You can ask them, how they can get the answer.
Now, 99 x 97 = ?
9,603 / 9,603… Wow! Amazing…
What is the sum of these 9 numbers?
30 + 35 + 40 + 45 + 50 + 55 + 60 + 65 + 70 = ??
450 / 450… Let's see if that's correct?
Wow… Amazing…
Again..
Now, next question.
There are two pieces of strings, each configures a circle.
Radius 3cm and 5cm. The strings are joined to create a new circle.
What is the diameter of the new circle?
16 / 16… Let's see the answer
16 cm… Amazing!
Now, more complex calculations.
What's the answer?
2,000 per 2,001 / Let's see if that's correct?
Amazing…
Later you can ask them, how they got to these answers.
Give any questions.
Now, we get into logarithmic questions.
2 log 3 = x. What is 32 log 9?
2 per 5x.
Let's see the answer.
Correct!
Next matrix multiplications.
What is the value of x?
29…
Let's see the answer.
29
Let’s do a physics question.
Two objects are facing each other,
Their speed is 2 meters per second and 3 meters per second.
The distance between them is 40 meters. When do they meet?
After 8 seconds / 8 seconds. Let’s see..
Correct.
Thank you, you can go back now.
Incredible, ladies and gentlemen.
How did they become so outstanding?
They didn’t know how to count,
They didn’t have any hopes before. What happened?
What made them become so outstanding?
There’s a secret.
The secret is here.
Good teachers and good method.
These two things change people.
What is a good teacher?
A good teacher is a teacher who is able to motivate and inspire the students.
What is a good method?
A good method is a method that is able to simplify the lesson making it easy and fun.
Able to make learning easier.
What is actually a method that is simple and easy, yet fun?
Let’s take an example.
Let’s say there’s a problem like this.
There are 7 animals with total number of feet of 20.
Count the animals with 4 feet and the animals with 2 feet!
There.. You are already doing algebra.
But we don’t have to use that. There has to be a method.
A simple one, something that students can understand easily. How?
See, there are 7 animals. Let’s say that all of them have 2 feet.
There are 7 animals, right? It means, there are 14 feet. But the question said there are 20 feet.
So you add 2 feet.
If you add 2 feet, that makes 16 feet total.
You add more. So now we have 18 feet.
Add more, that becomes 20 feet, right?
There, it’s done. There is an easy way.
There is always the easiest way to solve a problem.
Now, take for example, how could the students answer this problem so quickly?
Two objects are moving toward each other.
Their speed is 4 meters per second and 3 meters per second. The distance between them is 28 meters.
After how many seconds will they cross each other?
Usually, at school, you will use a formula.
Well, it’s already complicated from the beginning.
Now, let’s not use any formula.
How can you solve this problem in an easy, fun way?
Let’s look at the first object. It moves 4 meter per second. What does that mean?
It means for 1 second, it moves 4 meters.
Now, the second object, 3 meters per second. What does that mean?
For every second, it moves 3 meters, it means it’s getting closer.
So for each second, they move 7 meters, because one object moves 4 meters forward and
The other object moves 3 meters forward.
For each second, there is a 7 meter movement. Now, the distance is 28 meters.
So how many seconds? 4 seconds.
Now, if I give you similar problems, I am sure that you will solve the problem in 3 seconds.
Two bicycles move toward each other. Let’s try this together!
The first bike moves 8 meter per second.
The second bike moves 2 meter per second. I’m pretty sure you have figured out the 10 meters now.
If the distance between them is 60 meters, after how many seconds will they meet?
[Audience] 6! / There, you got it!
So easy and fun…
We are developing this Gasing method at Surya Universities.
To deploy this method throughout Indonesia.
To help the children go to from hopeless to hopeful.
So they are not afraid of physics, chemistry, mathematics.
They will not be afraid of science.
And i believe...
That in this world, there are no stupid children.
There are only children…
Who have not had the opportunity to learn from a good teacher and a good method.
And for the last, ladies and gentlemen.
I just want to say, there is hope for us who feels hopeless.
There's always hope.
Thank you.