Little update on Math Academy TracingWoodgrains My kid started in prealgebra which I initially thought was too easy but it turns out he either aces a section or rarely does poorly on specific topics or question types he hasn't seen before. Which is great. We've worked on

I am really curious what the Supreme Court thinks of sweeping preemptive pardons for crimes that are not specified and which the executive claims have not happened.

The huge pool of people posting about mRNA vaccines and cancer treatments is slowly driving me insane.

Wait does Trump want Iron Dome or Brilliant Pebbles? Because those are very different things. And a missile detection and interception constellation is plausible at reasonable cost now

Watching Trump follow up "I don't really care that much about abortion" with "IVF is awesome" and watching certain parts of the right react to it has been pretty gratifying, ngl

Elon using the term abundance frequently in his all hands is pretty funny. I don’t know if it’s intentional or not but he can play it close to the vest when he wants

My son is finishing up prealgebra and gearing up for algebra and geometry. Overall, I'm quite happy with Math Academy Tools like it will be critical to education in the future. Unfortunately, I think they will make educational gaps much worse, not better TracingWoodgrains

🚨HOLY MOLY: Ana Navarro's complete meltdown on CNN just caused Abby Phillip to cut to commercial. Shermichael Singleton: "If you com to this country illegally, you are going HOME!" Ana Navarro: "There's a hell of a lot of people who other than the black people who were brought here

Not to single a certain movie out in particular, but it is very annoying when the plot requires a dozen people to just not shoot the hero who is just standing there less than 20 feet away.

I just realized that my son's standardized testing is next week. Will his ~90 days of prealgebra have any meaningful effect on his math score? I'm genuinely curious to know. My guess: probably not. But it's nice to have before and after data points. TracingWoodgrains

So my son took his last math MAP of elementary school and got a respectable 267, a few points higher then his 263 from last year. This is in line with prior improvements Apparently elementary school MAPs are scaled to 300 vs 350 for middle/HS, and it’s hard to get past 270s as

I didn't think it was that hard, Grok

I've had good results using Math Academy with my son, now I'm starting my daughter on it. They are nothing alike, and she is much weaker at math in general (90th percentile vs 99.9) I'm very curious to see how she responds TracingWoodgrains

I wonder if a lawyer could explain to me how Ames v Ohio, AA, and disparate impact work as a practical matter. What a mess

Hmm. You know a Falcon 9 could carry 2 MOABs with mass to spare. Interesting

Apparently, ChatGPT is referring patients to me now. I'm really not sure how to feel about that. Apparently, I have a lot of good reviews, but that isn't really indicative of my skill as a physician. Hmm

I thought I’d save some money and use up some scrap by using wooden drawer slides Maybe I’m out of practice but these things are fiddly as hell

Interesting reviewing my kids' Math Academy usage over the summer, but I think I'll wait until their first set of standardized tests so I can get some objective data. Made me a little more pessimistic overall TracingWoodgrains

There have been a series of events of late that seem like they were willed into being by a higher power that wants as many TracingWoodgrains takes as possible. Unfortunate events, unfortunate timing.