Chris

We can only hope

Game designers don't solve gaps in understanding by making a confusing thing more fun. The most frequent issues in playtesting are: 1. players don't know what to do next 2. players don't know how to do the thing 3. players don't remember how to do the thing 4. players don't notice that too-subtle hint you thought was too-obvious when you specifically planted it there to remind them what to do and how to do it, even though they could only possibly reach this point of the game by doing the thing many times successfully ...so wtf! The game design mantra is to "find the fun," but the problem-solving part of that quest looks a lot like education.

@DrLauraReames I’d suggest NGSS. When you’re done with Algebra, do TEKs or AP!

@sutherlandphys He’ll be taking Algebra w MA simultaneously. Do you have a preference bw the conceptual and NGSS courses?

Set a goal for 10 school partnerships by Fall and reached it through cold INBOUND alone. Clearly not ambitious enough. If you know other schools out there that would benefit from PhysicsGraph for their physics/chemistry, reach out now and lock in our cheapest rate!

@DrLauraReames Great! Should be perfect for them!

@sutherlandphys I plan on enrolling my rising 8th grader in your conceptual physics course in the August!

@heyohelen Thank you for your support UN delegate

@sutherlandphys @karelvuong YAHHHH

@KaelinHooper Thank you 🙏 and right back at you!

@sutherlandphys NICE. Huge fan of what you're building

@BallerThanThou Having the school or some sort of motivational structure is still very important

@sutherlandphys Works exceptionally well for kids that are competitive and intrinsically motivated but not more laid back kids, is my experience. Huge selection effects.

People give MathAcademy a ton of credit, but I still don't think they get enough to be honest. The Math Academy Way is an incredible book. They were doing all this shit before it was popular, going against the grain from nearly all other edtech. They have really blazed a trail

Let's make sure we keep it going. Institutes like @ConjectureInst help ensure we do.

@br_ttany jeez it's a good question and i know you're not alone. maybe @karelvuong & @samjvuong have something to say here

@sutherlandphys I'm so psyched about all of the choices and things evolving so quickly. I'm also overwhelmed about how to navigate what makes sense for my 3 and 5 year old. Any advice?

MathAcademy, Alpha School, Mentava, Recess, and yes I'm throwing PhysicsGraph in there are lighting the world of education on fire and I couldn't be more excited.

@Eliana_Goldin @physicsgraph Oh well alright great haha!

@sutherlandphys @physicsgraph Oh shoot I meant the bug reports were to us! Not you!!!

Watch me relearn physics on Recess using @physicsgraph. My entire session, unedited. Ran into some bugs + reported them to the team. Got tripped up over scientific notation but sue me I haven't done this since I was in high school. Feedback is always welcome!

The knowledge graph will eat all of STEM education in the coming decade.

@aakashgupta We are doing the same for physics (Physics I already live)

A third grader just scored a 5 on AP Calculus BC. The system that trained him contains no LLM. The core is a knowledge graph one man spent 250 hours encoding by hand, two minutes per edge. The platform is Math Academy. Its "AI" is an expert system that routes each student through nearly 3,000 math topics, from 4th grade arithmetic to the math behind machine learning. Every node, every prerequisite link, every weight was placed manually by a team of mathematicians. The weights alone took Justin Skycak a full month: 1,500 topics at the time, roughly 5 prerequisite links each, 2 minutes to estimate each one. 8 hours a day of pure encoding, done before ChatGPT existed to ease the load. Why go through that? Because the graph unlocks mastery learning, the closest thing education research has to a cheat code. In 1984, Benjamin Bloom showed that students with one-on-one tutoring perform two standard deviations above a regular classroom. The average tutored kid beats 98% of the lecture hall. Nobody could afford a tutor per child, so the finding sat in journals for 40 years. A prerequisite graph with a mastery gate is the workaround. The system always knows the exact next topic a specific kid is ready for, drills it until proven, then moves on. Zero time spent waiting for 29 classmates. That waiting is most of school. A year of classroom math is roughly 150 hours of instruction, and the majority goes to pacing, review, and re-teaching. Strip it out and a motivated kid covers six grade levels in one calendar year. The origin makes it better: this grew out of a math program at Pasadena High School where 8th graders were passing AP Calculus BC, back when the founders were still hand-grading the whole thing. The most effective education AI running today is a graph a few humans built by hand, one edge at a time.

london has ~272 subway stations. paris has ~300. toronto has fewer than 80 ... for a region of 7 million what many people don't realize is that toronto riders cover roughly 70% of operating costs through fares. this is one of the highest shares in north america so, toronto residents are paying for transit like it's a premium service, but aren't getting a premium experience

It's hard to describe how nice PhysicsGraph has gotten since we started roughly a year ago. I'm confident it is the best physics software on the market by a huge margin and is going to give way way way more people a path into physics than ever before. There's a free trial btw!

@Tinsu @sathaxe Good question, people more involved with primary stuff may have a better answer @ben_m_somers