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The Science of Learning to Code

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

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How to Teach Probability to Kids

Papper wanted probability to be hard fun his term for you know Immersing kids and big ideas and letting them playfully build systems around those ideas. This all was because he remembered his own childhood frustrations with the boring abstract math class that really got him So in 1967 papper and his team at MIT created logo the programming language for children. They also built a little robot called turtle The turtle robot has three key attributes It has a position and a heading so children can map its movements to their own body And it can be controlled with commands like forward back Left and right and it leaves the trace of its path with a pen.

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