Synthesis Tutor – Math tutor for children

Post by ClintFix » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 10:43 PM UTC

symic wrote: post #3

ClintFix wrote: post #2

I had the opportunity to work on this. I let my son try the demo last week. Hours afterward at dinner I asked him to explain binary to my wife. "Mom, imagine you have the number 101 in binary. The first 1 is the fours spot, so you have 4. There's none in the twos spot. and 1 in the ones spot. So that means you have 5." Two days later he came into my office and asked if he could do more tutor. That's a huge win in my…

I’ve taught math at the college level for 25 years. The video looked impressive. Do you know up to what level of math it does?

Post by musicale » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 10:50 PM UTC

symic wrote: post #11

light_hue_1 wrote: post #10

I tried the demo. As an educator who has taught math: this is frustrating junk. It moves at a crawl. It doesn't explain the reasoning for anything. It provides no motivation. It's full of incorrect statements like "Computers struggle with too many digits." Pretty much the worst practice if you want to teach someone anything.

In third grade parlance it is correct to say computers struggle with too many digits.

    >>> a=10**(1000000)
    >>> b=a//3
    >>> len(str(b))
    1000000

Post by ClintFix » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 10:53 PM UTC

da39a3ee wrote: post #32

This is madness. I'm trying the demo and it is completely incomprehensible to me. This would have been incredibly frustrating to me as a child -- I would want them to stop speaking in metaphors and tell me what the fuck they were trying to teach me. Since then I have acquired a scientific PhD and taught myself undergrad computer science and math, and I do not understand this lesson.

Post by symic » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 10:57 PM UTC

musicale wrote: post #33

symic wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In third grade parlance it is correct to say computers struggle with too many digits.

Not sure what "struggle" or "too many" is supposed to mean, but my laptop (running Python in a Linux VM) handles million-digit numbers just fine >>> a=10**(1000000) >>> b=a//3 >>> len(str(b)) 1000000 Given that computers have calculated the value of Pi to more than 60 million digits , I think we can safely say that computers readily handle numbers with many digits.

Post by brennancolberg » Thu, Jun 08, 2023, 11:07 PM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #13

If you're pushing a personal education tool that uses AI, you'd better explain exactly how AI is used before I'm going to put it in front of a child.