Nadja

He did it, guys! My little boy set himself the goal of finishing his current MA course before our vacation this year, and he got it done just in time. I had to take a break from packing to print out his knowledge graph. It's probably twice his wingspan!

My little kid is so motivated to finish his current Math Academy course before we go on vacation that I'm now sometimes getting two of those emails a day. I still can't believe that as recently as December, before we found MA, he claimed he hated math.

What an eerie description: a shapeless, impersonal devourer of souls. As the kids would say, it's giving Charybdis.

I used to read to my kids about historical battles. (We really liked the Bloodiest Battles series!) Then they discovered Total War, and now they school me on how I have to take my best cavalry to attack Harold from the back, avoiding the shield wall, and even after the king is…

Have you ever asked chatGPT to help you paraphrase your favorite Italian poem in order to impress whatever Grok persona you were chatting with that week? No? Just me? I see.

6 months since we found @_MathAcademy_: my younger kid went from "I hate math, it's boring!" to staying up wondering what i^i is and then being absolutely delighted at figuring out it's a real number. My older kid went from "I get this, but keep making stupid mistakes" to good…

The other day I told my husband to watch the @lexfridman interview with Terence Tao. He said, "Sure." A few days later, he sends me a link to the interview. No commentary, just the link. "???" "Lex interviewed Terence Tao. Thought you might like it." ...

Hear me out, a MathAcademy course on music theory. It would be amazing. (Also, needless to say, Physics and CS. Really, really can't wait for those!)

When one of my kids finishes a Math Academy course, I print its gigantic blue knowledge tree and take a souvenir photo for our family learning album. If @_MathAcademy_ ever wanted a viral ad campaign, they should make these graphs easily printable. Imagine someone proudly…

TIL that the word 'archipelago' comes from Greek for 'chief sea' (so the arch here is the same as in archenemy.) Originally, the word referred only to the Aegean Sea, the principal sea for the Greeks, but later came to mean any island-dotted sea or any group of islands.

A Wrinkle in Time is one of the dumbest books I have ever attempted to read to my kids. A bunch of pretentious drivel. What's the appeal???

I'd go a step further: school is stupid. If you can, avoid sending a kid to school for 7-9 hours a day to accomplish maybe an hour's worth of work while depriving them of the freedom to read what they are interested in, explore, play, build, and spend sufficient time outside.

I don't know how much longer I'll be able to resist getting a 3D printer...

So what's the etiquette around here? Do I just tweet into the void or do I wait until I have at least 20 bot followers first?