Q&A: Can Math Academy’s Structure Be Used to Teach Other Subjects?

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One of the main reasons why so many people struggle to learn math is that they struggle to climb the hierarchy. Climbing the hierarchy has been a primary focus of our solution approach, so our solution is going to generalize best to subjects that are similarly hierarchical.

I think the MA approach would generalize well to CS, with light adaptation to support the more project-heavy courses that one encounters when moving away from mathy CS (e.g., algos + data structures) and into systems CS (e.g., distributed systems). But I still anticipate that these projects could be broken down into topics where fundamental concepts / skills are introduced, and then they are pulled together into a mini-project, and then multiple mini-projects are pulled together into a bigger project. Or something like that.

Basically, I think one could break down even the largest educational projects into a KG structure and then incrementally push through that KG using effective learning techniques. I know this is a bit hand-wavy, but my gut tells me that with enough thought and effort, the details could be worked out to make this work.

Even something like biology – I think a similar MA-style approach could be used. I’m actually learning biology myself by coaching ChatGPT to emulate a MA-style approach, and it’s working out pretty well. Takes some work for me to keep it on the rails, and it doesn’t feel nearly as efficient as a full-fledged adaptive learning system, but it does feel way more efficient than any other resources I’ve found. (More info here.)

Humanities, though… yeah, I don’t know what a MA-style approach would look like either, but I also don’t have much experience in that arena.

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