Comments - Math Academy Wants To Supercharge Your Learning

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* Can anything be done to ensure that a larger proportion of 4th-grade students can benefit? For sure. * Is Math Academy fundamentally broken and cannot be fixed? GTFOH! Long Form I cannot post as a single comment, so it must be done as a series of comments. While the author raises a few reasonable points, it's nothing we're not already aware of. Also, it's self-evident that the author had no intention of properly engaging with the platform. It's not my intention to go through the review line-by-line and comment on every point. However, some points about the author's perspective on education stood out for me. > Good teachers don’t sit around and watch kids read. They ask probing questions. They ask for explanations. They build understanding. Not quite. When a good one-on-one tutor introduces a new concept to a student, they might start with some (very) short motivation. Then, they'll introduce a worked example, as simple as possible to start, and carefully walk through the solution, in

Hi, Alex, Curriculum Director of Math Academy here. After some reflection, I decided to respond to this. TLDR * Math Academy is a work in progress (hence why we're still in beta). * Do we avoid or skip the teaching of concepts? No, certainly not! * Could we do more to ensure conceptual understandings are hitting home? Absolutely. * Can anything be done to ensure that a larger proportion of 4th-grade students can benefit? For sure. * Is Math Academy fundamentally broken and cannot be fixed? GTFOH! Long Form I cannot post as a single comment, so it must be done as a series of…

Comments - Math Academy Wants To Supercharge Your Learning

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