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So a case study on a sample of 2 - does it count?

no :)

What would you have done if she was not interested in learning math or literacy?

Also when you were 8, you didnt have about 1 million developers making 500k per year trying to extract(and sell) every single bit of your attention in any possible way. From roblox to netflix to tiktok to supercell.

It took us like 300 years to learn how to teach math, and we are still improving, we are getting new tools every day, just look at https://www.youtube.com/3blue1brown can you imagine how many people he himself has reached and inspired? People that previously thought: "math is not for me".

We dont know neither pedagogy nor andragogy for programming, what is known is that tutoring + help software works really well (https://www.public.asu.edu/~kvanlehn/Stringent/PDF/Effective...), but we are still trying to find ways to teach mastery.

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