mcbagz | edu/acc

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mcbagz | edu/acc

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@Bagz_Tech

Two under two | Building the greatest learning app for AP https://t.co/SnVAXpt9nM | Leading the EdTech Revolution with @Superbuilders | Cohort 2 @joingauntletai

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mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
@eigenuser1 Yes, AP Physics 1 was wild, but Physics B was even crazier, so they are trending in the right direction! But it really comes down to the teacher (and whether they even teach it all!) x.com/Bagz_Tech/stat…
mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech

Back in high school, my AP Chem teacher skipped over a unit or two because there "wasn't enough time". A few of us read the chapter in the textbook on our own, but otherwise the class automatically missed that 10% of the exam. We're building to empower students. Teachers have too much variance, and students deserve better.

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Eigenuser@eigenuser1·
@Bagz_Tech Some AP courses are great (e.g. AP Calc AB/BC). Others aren't. In fact, AP Physics 1 had so many weird holes in the curriculum until last year when they revised it (mostly regarding rotation). Still not perfect, but much better. But yes, it is largely teacher-dependent.
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mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
AP is a great standard. Every exam has a 200+ page PDF that details everything that needs to be taught in the course, even how each topic is represented on the exam. It's a shame that the student experience comes down to the quality of the teacher at their school.
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mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
Back in high school, my AP Chem teacher skipped over a unit or two because there "wasn't enough time". A few of us read the chapter in the textbook on our own, but otherwise the class automatically missed that 10% of the exam. We're building to empower students. Teachers have too much variance, and students deserve better.
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"Artificial Intelligence" was always the wrong name. Artificial sweetener, flavoring, color, milk, silk, vanilla, butter, diamonds, leather, flowers... this was predictable. AI needs a rebrand, fast.
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mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
@OVTweetmarck If you sent me back to 2012 with ChatGPT, this is how I would make money: Buy as much bitcoin as possible.
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@lymanstoneky Motivation is 90% of it, and what better motivation to work hard on academics than getting your afternoons back?
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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky·
I strongly suspect that Alpha School's actual advantage is its ability and willingness to motivate kids in ways many schools decline to do. Motivation is the core block for a lot of kids. But to that end, I suspect Alpha School's success on motivation depends upon a critical mass of families being positively selected on desire for their kids to excel.
John Arnold@johnarnold

It’s hard to square the research meta-analyses showing small to no academic gains from classroom screen use, and even negative effects with heavy use, with Alpha School’s claims of large gains across all types of students using common programs like Khan Academy and IXL. 1/2

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mcbagz | edu/acc
mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
Great stuff coming from @PlaycademyEdu. The bar has been raised: Does your app get kids excited about learning? Can they not wait to learn more? By 2030 we'll have learning apps that kids will prefer to video games.
Sarah Cone@sarah_cone

My daughter used to hate FastMath and would do it last, and often not at all. Today, with the changes, she chatted excitedly on the way to school about how she was going to do FastMath first and something about blasts and ghosties. Thank you all for continuing to improve my child’s education—it’s working!

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Simon Sarris@simonsarris·
Every child you add makes a many more connections for the entire family. The graph of love is not a bunch of arrows pointing only to mom. They will all have a long childhood of playing together. (n(n-1)/2 more connections to be exact)
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Rebecca Reid@RebeccaCNReid

You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids.

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@HippyMomPhD I love Saxon! My mom had us use them when homeschooling. I like what Math Academy is doing as well, but I have been reflecting on whether there is something in Saxon that hasn't been translated digitally yet.
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Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️@HippyMomPhD·
You won't like to hear this, but Saxon was the first math program that helped my struggling math student. It's not flashy, it's not colorful. It is slow, practice-heavy, procedural program. And it works.
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mcbagz | edu/acc
mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
This was a great read this morning and resonated with our approach at @CrushAPexams. We found that so many "skills" were identical processes applied to slightly different scenarios. For example, in AP Physics "finding the area under a torque-time graph" isn't really a new skill. After the first graph, students are familiar with the techniques to find area. It takes them a second to learn this (geometrically). What is the actual skill? The "plutonium atoms" that will get them a 5 are 1. Recognizing a graph (eg torque-time in this case) 2. Recognizing what the area represents (angular impulse). The actual calculation is trivial. My team found a handful of these, and we have developed "core skill" modules to really drill them. How quickly can you pick the right equation for a problem? How quickly can you recognize these properties of a graph? How quickly can you name the fundamental physics principle at play? Reaching fluency in these is the difference between scoring a 4 and a 5.
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Kristopher Boulton@Kris_Boulton

Now that we have atomised, now that we have done the analysis, we can begin to reap its cornucopia of rewards. The first is the realisation that there is so much less to teach that we think. There’s a reason the maths curriculum feels overwhelming and over stuffed, but it’s not because there is too much to teach. 👇

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mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
@Bias_Zebra @seungho__yang You need a subscription to use Claude Code (maybe you're thinking of Cursor ?), and only the highest enterprise type is not a flat rate per head but pay as you go.
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Crazy how Physics gets four AP exams. A few others get multiple (Econ, Calc), but then you just have one Chem, one Bio. It would be trivial to break these up further. As they are, most colleges will give you a semester of credit, while the exams cover closer to a full year.
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mcbagz | edu/acc@Bagz_Tech·
Everybody is arguing if they're smart enough to homeschool, but nobody is smart enough to ignore obvious engagement bait.
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