Trail Notes
What your kid is learning, and why we teach it this way.
Curriculum explainers, learning-design decisions for parents, and guides for homeschooling with Math Buddies: Wilderness Trail.
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- Free printables 21 free worksheet packs, and no sign-up Twenty-one printable packs, 105 student pages, Kindergarten through Grade 8, each with a separate parent answer key. No account and no email address. Read the post
- Learning design Why the game is a wilderness trail A kid should be able to see where they are, how long the trail is, and what the next stop is — without an adult translating. Here is what that decision looks like in the interface. Read the post
- Learning design Why there are no timers (except where fluency needs one) New ideas are taught without a clock. A countdown shows up in exactly one kind of round — practicing facts your kid has already been taught — and it pauses while the question is read aloud. Read the post
- Grade 3 · Curriculum Fractions are numbers, not pizza slices Grade 3 is where a fraction stops being a picture of a shaded shape and becomes a number you can place, compare, and reason about. Here is the sequence. Read the post
- Grade 2 · Curriculum How we teach regrouping in Grade 2 Regrouping is the hinge of second-grade math: the moment a number stops being a row of digits and becomes tens and ones you can trade. Here is how the app builds it. Read the post
- Homeschooling The K–8 math sequence, a guide for homeschoolers The whole arc from counting to algebra in plain language, plus how to place your kid and how to run the app alongside whatever curriculum you already use. Read the post
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