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How it works

From question to understanding.

One idea, followed all the way through. Here is what that actually looks like inside a lesson — and you can open the real thing without making an account.

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The model

Five things happen, in this order

Not five features. Five stages of the same journey, which is why the page above draws them as one line.

  1. Start where you actually are

    Three levels run from grade 3 to grade 12, and six courses run in sequence inside them. You pick a level, or you open the first course and find out. Nothing is locked behind anything else.

    See the three levels
  2. A lesson shows the thing before it names it

    Every lesson is a sequence of blocks: a short explanation, a definition once the idea has been seen, a worked example, and something you manipulate — a dot plot you drag, a chart you build, a simulation you run. The vocabulary arrives after the picture, never before it.

    Open a real lesson
  3. Practice happens inside the lesson, not after it

    Questions sit in the flow of the lesson, and every lesson ends in a checkpoint. Feedback is immediate, and a wrong answer gets a response written for that specific misconception rather than a red cross. Checkpoints pass at 80%, and you can retake them.

  4. Units and courses close with real work

    A unit ends in a quiz or a challenge, and a course ends in a final. In the later courses that final is a full investigation of your own: a question, data you collect or find, an analysis, and a conclusion you have to defend.

    See what each course ends with
  5. Progress is a plant, and it is yours

    Completed lessons grow a garden on your dashboard and earn growth points. Progress is private by default — it is a record for you, not a leaderboard, and it is never made public.

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Anatomy of a lesson

This is a real lesson, read from the live curriculum

Not a mockup. The sequence below is the actual block order of the first lesson in the first course, exactly as a student meets it.

Data Explorers · What Is Data?

Data Is Information

Learn that data is just a fancy word for information we collect.

12 min11 stagesEnds in a checkpoint
  1. Section
  2. Aside
  3. Reflection
  4. Explanation
  5. Definition
  6. Worked example
  7. Aside
  8. Sorting activity
  9. Check your understanding
  10. Reflection
  11. Summary
  12. Checkpoint · 80% to pass · retakeable

By the end of it

  • Explain that data means information we collect about people or things.

And in person

Where workshops fit

The courses are the whole product today and work entirely on their own. Workshops are being built as the in-person complement — the same material, run in a room, for schools, libraries and community groups. They have not run yet, and this page will say so until they have.

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