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I find myself irritated by how effective this method of instruction is. I'm not sure which is more annoying: -going through years of education in pure mathema

I find myself irritated by how effective this method of instruction is. I'm not sure which is more annoying: -going through years of education in pure mathematics without this kind of tutorial -not having come up with this method myself, when it's so close to the dumbed-down edutainment software of the 90's Every university course should start with at least a day of instruction written in this style. [kicks dirt]

garren 4y ago
A product that takes a similar approach is: “A Curious Moon” @ BigMachine [0] It’s not an intro to time series or data analysis, but it’s a great intro to Postgres, db administration, and etl that follows a fun and compelling storyline. The presentation is different, but the “edutainment” style is similar. [0] https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/ https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/
- werzum 4y ago
  I love this type of education - do you know where I can find more content like that? I really have trouble finding stuff like this just by Googling; rather, I seem to stumble over it from time to time.
sliken 4y ago
Heh, indeed, the similarly effective method if gamification. Even relatively "dry" things like algebra can be gamified, Dragonbox is a good example. From my limited experience (1 kid), it works really well.
eutectic 4y ago
Not to be rude, but I found it a bit infantilizing. I would rather just have the information.
- StrictDabbler 4y ago
  That's fair in a sense but it also looks like they moved the preview paywall much earlier in the chapter, 22% instead of 46%. Towards the middle of the chapter they start asking intuitive questions about how coefficients in the power-series map to the real-life concepts they've been discussing "childishly" up until then. It's a major turning point and I wonder if you just didn't get the opportunity to see that shift. It's infantilizing right up until it isn't.

garren 4y ago

A product that takes a similar approach is: “A Curious Moon” @ BigMachine [0] It’s not an intro to time series or data analysis, but it’s a great intro to Postgres, db administration, and etl that follows a fun and compelling storyline. The presentation is different, but the “edutainment” style is similar. [0] https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/ https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/

werzum 4y ago
I love this type of education - do you know where I can find more content like that? I really have trouble finding stuff like this just by Googling; rather, I seem to stumble over it from time to time.

sliken 4y ago

Heh, indeed, the similarly effective method if gamification. Even relatively "dry" things like algebra can be gamified, Dragonbox is a good example. From my limited experience (1 kid), it works really well.

eutectic 4y ago

Not to be rude, but I found it a bit infantilizing. I would rather just have the information.

StrictDabbler 4y ago
That's fair in a sense but it also looks like they moved the preview paywall much earlier in the chapter, 22% instead of 46%. Towards the middle of the chapter they start asking intuitive questions about how coefficients in the power-series map to the real-life concepts they've been discussing "childishly" up until then. It's a major turning point and I wonder if you just didn't get the opportunity to see that shift. It's infantilizing right up until it isn't.