Knowledge, Code, and Elephant Learning with Dr. Aditya Nagrath

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In this episode of the Ardan Labs podcast, Dr. Aditya Nagrath shares his journey from a PhD in math computer science to founding Elephant Learning, an online math academy that has significantly improved learning math for children. He discusses the importance of foundational math skills, his early experiences with coding, and his career path, including the birth of Elephant Learning. The conversation highlights the intersection of education and technology, emphasizing the need for adaptive lea...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the R Labs podcast.
0:19.3	Our special guest today is the one, the only, Dr. Aditya.
0:25.3	Dr. Mitt, thank you for joining us today.
0:28.6	Hi, thank you for having me.
0:30.4	Ah, for anyone who possibly doesn't know who you are,
0:35.7	could you give everybody like the two-minute spiel
0:37.9	on what you're doing today?
0:40.1	Yeah, sure.
0:42.4	Well, I got a PSD, math, computer science, 2008.
0:46.5	That's it, just a PhD?
0:48.4	Come on, Doc.
0:51.1	Well, there's a lot of the contract software engineering firm.
0:55.3	We put out 35 different applicants, 35 different product lines.
1:00.2	It was 50 different applications.
1:02.4	And then in 2016, I started Elephant Learning, which is an online math academy for children.
1:08.5	On average, children in our system learn about a year and a half math over the course of 10 weeks when they use it just 30 minutes per week. And we've helped over 175,000 students. We've taught nearly 210,000 years of mathematics.
1:21.1	2,000 and 10 years of mathematics.
1:23.6	210,000 years. Over how many students? 175,000. What's the name of the platform again? Elephant Learning. Elephant Learning.
1:34.2	You know, when I think about the platform that you built, the first thing that comes to my head is the Khan Academy. Why is that? They just did an amazing job getting integrated into the, into the great schools.
1:46.0	Well, Khan Academy, I believe, is free. Oh, okay. Yeah, but, you know, a lot of what Khan Academy is
1:54.7	is recorded videos and the difference between what Khan Academy is and what we're doing is probably, first of all,
2:03.2	I don't know what Khan Academy is doing for grade school.
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