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Math Academy

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Q. Michael Pershan’s main critique of spaced repetition in the context of Math Academy? A. It reinforces his memory of a shallow understanding. Justin Skycak “Chief quant” for Math Academy.

Math Academy Math Academy An impressive new CAI platform. Things I admire Interleaving progressively scaffolded ( Cognitive scaffolding ) active learning tasks into the reading experience—i.e. instead of reading for 10-20m, then doing exercises, you read for 1m , then do a task, then 1m, etc Worked examples consistently presented before user tasks Worked example effect Diagnostics offer empowering clarity: take a test, then see “OK, here’s where your holes are—and we’re going to fill them.” It’s powerful even though the visual presentation of the data is very poor. XP mechanisms—a standardized

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