Interesting analogy. I recently saw outreach content that described rain/snow/hail formation in terms of a cooking recipe (eg, stir hail several times up and d

Interesting analogy. I recently saw outreach content that described rain/snow/hail formation in terms of a cooking recipe (eg, stir hail several times up and down past the frost line until it grows to ...). I wonder what other familiar frames might be used to scaffold understanding? Some time back I was pondering how one might teach category theory to kids, by presenting it as cross-cutting patterns in everyday life (eg non-zero one-directional movement along a closed finite path eventually comes back around, as in simple board games, a clock's "we missed 12 today, but we can do it at 12 tomorrow", or "oops, passed an open parking spot - drive around the block".)