Aditya Nagrath

So like if you were teaching a child the color red,

you're going to show them a lot of red things and they're going to have to infer that what you're speaking about is the color red.

But with mathematics, it's a little bit more abstract because you can't see it, right?

When you do the addition piece, you're talking about that idea of more, right?

Give me five, give me four more things and the quantities, right?

So like the same idea is you have to show them four of the same thing, right?

And they have to infer that the four is referring to the quantity.

Right on.

And so this kind of shift gets them to understand what's happening rather than just repeat the calculations over and over and over again until they get it.

So the system is occurring through puzzle game.

What we did was we took the activities that the researchers already found to be most effective at teaching mathematics conceptually, and then we combined it with algorithms that are able to quickly determine what does a student understand and not understand, and then adjust the system to their level of understanding.

So it's a very personalized experience.

But everything happens through the puzzle games.

So it feels kind of like an Angry Birds, but for mathematics.

Right on.

And then, but basically they solve the puzzle.

In solving the puzzle, they're exhibiting the idea.

And then we're trying to label it right afterwards.

So like, give me five things.

Give me four more things.