A new angle every chapter
Each chapter comes at the same idea from a different direction instead of repeating it.
What it is
When a book teaches one idea over several chapters, every one of them gets its own case: its own situation, its own numbers, its own angle. Before we write each new part, we list the numbers already worked in the parts before it, and we may not reuse them or reach for near variants of them.
What it is for
Multiplication met three times as the same problem with the names changed is one lesson read three times. Met as a worked product, then as counting groups of something, then as spotting an answer that cannot be right, it is one idea a child has turned over. The variation stays inside what the topic named, so a book about multiplication never quietly becomes a tour of the syllabus.
How to use it
- Tap New Adventure and choose the Curriculum Journey or STEM Focus card on Topic, the first step along the top. There is no switch for this. It comes with the topic.
- Pick one standard rather than several, so the book has a single idea to come at from different sides.
- Read it in order with them rather than dipping in, because the angles are built to arrive in a sequence.
- Ask them at the end which part was easiest. The answer tells you which angle landed.
What we suggest
Use it on the thing they keep getting wrong. A topic they already hold is a pleasant read, and a topic that keeps slipping is where coming at it from a new side each time earns its keep. Make the next book on the same standard afterwards, and watch which angle they reach for.