If you made most school-learning easy, how hard is it going to be to learn in the real world?
Instead of making your programs easy, build your programs with tools that let children create, error, struggle and succeed. Do not reward learning behavior with games or treats: your program should make the VERY ACT OF LEARNING fun, since kids (and you and me and everyone else) love to learn new things.
Don't make your programs linear either. No "Answer problem 1, then 2, then 3" crap. Try developing a structure that lets the kids solve a problem that can be finished in different ways and orders. Especially with math, let them learn by experimentation.
Sit in a classroom and think "how cool would it be if the teacher could rotate that graph in 3 dimensions? That would be helpful because I want to see how changing the slope affects the graph." and then make it!
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Instead of making your programs easy, build your programs with tools that let children create, error, struggle and succeed. Do not reward learning behavior with games or treats: your program should make the VERY ACT OF LEARNING fun, since kids (and you and me and everyone else) love to learn new things.
Don't make your programs linear either. No "Answer problem 1, then 2, then 3" crap. Try developing a structure that lets the kids solve a problem that can be finished in different ways and orders. Especially with math, let them learn by experimentation.
Sit in a classroom and think "how cool would it be if the teacher could rotate that graph in 3 dimensions? That would be helpful because I want to see how changing the slope affects the graph." and then make it!