Fractions Ready to teach
Halver
Still learning: equal parts (partitioning)
Teach Halver → Practice the idea →Teach the Cast
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Ratios Ready to teach
Scale the Doubler
Still learning: equivalent ratios (scale both parts by the same factor)
Teach Scale the Doubler → Practice the idea → Algebra Ready to teach
Lever
Still learning: maintaining balance — do the same thing to both sides
Teach Lever → Practice the idea →All students
Ratios Ready to teach
Pace the Penguin
Still learning: the unit rate — a time shared out over every 100 m
Teach Pace the Penguin → Practice the idea → Geometry Ready to teach
Master Hypotenuse
Still learning: right-triangle relation a² + b² = c²
Teach Master Hypotenuse → Practice the idea → Probability Ready to teach
The Counter
Still learning: card-counting
Teach The Counter → Practice the idea → Probability Ready to teach
Tree the Compound-Brancher
Still learning: independent events (no memory of past trials)
Teach Tree the Compound-Brancher → Practice the idea → Data literacy Ready to teach
Tell
Still learning: correlation is not causation
Teach Tell → Practice the idea → Combinatorics Ready to teach
Tally the Pattern-Counter
Still learning: counting without listing
Teach Tally the Pattern-Counter → Practice the idea → Algebra Ready to teach
Stride the Pattern-Walker
Still learning: linear functions (constant rate of change)
Teach Stride the Pattern-Walker → Practice the idea → Math Ready to teach
Tess Try-Small
Still learning: specializing (try a small case first)
Teach Tess Try-Small → Practice the idea → Place value Ready to teach
Zeph
Still learning: the zero placeholder
Teach Zeph → Practice the idea → Proof Ready to teach
Direct-Proof Dora
Still learning: direct proof
Teach Direct-Proof Dora → Practice the idea → Math Ready to teach
Edge Goldi
Still learning: the edge of competence — you grow fastest a little past what you can already do
Teach Edge Goldi → Practice the idea → Math Ready to teach
Tagg
Still learning: anti-key-word — the operation comes from the situation, not a trigger word
Teach Tagg → Practice the idea → Probability Ready to teach
Bones
Still learning: the two-dice bell curve — 7 is far likelier than 2 or 12
Teach Bones → Practice the idea → Math Ready to teach
Truss
Still learning: a real bridge needs the same measurable structure on both sides
Teach Truss → Practice the idea → Math Ready to teach
Tag
Still learning: a percent is always of the current price — markup then discount don’t cancel
Teach Tag → Practice the idea → Math Ready to teach
Carry
Still learning: math has many origins that travelled and grew across cultures
Teach Carry → Practice the idea → Probability Ready to teach
Roll
Still learning: dice have no memory
Teach Roll → Practice the idea → Grammar Ready to teach
Verb Verity
Still learning: subject-verb agreement
Teach Verb Verity → Practice the idea → Writing craft Ready to teach
Beacon
Still learning: show, don’t tell
Teach Beacon → Practice the idea → Argument Ready to teach
Steel
Still learning: steelmanning
Teach Steel → Practice the idea → Writing craft Ready to teach
Glance
Still learning: subtext
Teach Glance → Practice the idea → Language Ready to teach
Knot
in FigureForge
Still learning: idioms
Teach Knot → Practice the idea → Poetry Ready to teach
Count
Still learning: counting syllables
Teach Count → Practice the idea → Research Ready to teach
Crosscheck
Still learning: verification by triangulation
Teach Crosscheck → Practice the idea → Humor writing Ready to teach
Plant
Still learning: joke structure (setup + punchline)
Teach Plant → Practice the idea → Languages Ready to teach
Bridge
Still learning: cognates
Teach Bridge → Practice the idea → Literature Ready to teach
Refrain
Still learning: motif recurrence
Teach Refrain → Practice the idea → Media literacy Ready to teach
Verify
Still learning: lateral reading
Teach Verify → Practice the idea → Spelling Ready to teach
Twin
Still learning: the double-consonant rule
Teach Twin → Practice the idea → Writing craft Ready to teach
Hook
Still learning: the story opening as a promise
Teach Hook → Practice the idea → Argument Ready to teach
Pry
in ClaimCraft
Still learning: spotting a fallacy — check your own reasoning, don’t attack the person
Teach Pry → Practice the idea → Media literacy Ready to teach
Trace
Still learning: trace a claim to its origin — many copies can repeat one unreliable source
Teach Trace → Practice the idea → Research Ready to teach
Vet
Still learning: a source’s reliability is its author and purpose, not how polished it looks
Teach Vet → Practice the idea → Media literacy Ready to teach
Sniff
Still learning: phishing tells are the sender, link, and urgency — not the spelling
Teach Sniff → Practice the idea → Literature Ready to teach
Hunch
Still learning: an inference is grounded in the text’s clues, not just any opinion
Teach Hunch → Practice the idea → Language Ready to teach
Hark
Still learning: real listening follows the whole point before you reply
Teach Hark → Practice the idea → Poetry Ready to teach
Chime
Still learning: rhyme is about sound, not matching ending letters
Teach Chime → Practice the idea → Language Ready to teach
Chip
Still learning: read a big word by chipping it into syllable chunks, not letter-by-letter
Teach Chip → Practice the idea → English & Language Arts Ready to teach
Morph
Still learning: read a long word by combining the meanings of its parts
Teach Morph → Practice the idea → Ecology Ready to teach
Flux
Still learning: what defines a biome
Teach Flux → Practice the idea → Chemistry Ready to teach
Tugger
Still learning: ionic bonding
Teach Tugger → Practice the idea → Physics Ready to teach
Flow
Still learning: current is conserved around a loop
Teach Flow → Practice the idea → Astronomy Ready to teach
Squint
Still learning: parallax
Teach Squint → Practice the idea → Animal care Ready to teach
Heed
Still learning: assessment by observation
Teach Heed → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Compare
Still learning: the fair test (controlled comparison)
Teach Compare → Practice the idea → Ecology Ready to teach
Chain
Still learning: the food-chain arrow
Teach Chain → Practice the idea → Agriculture Ready to teach
Loam
Still learning: crop rotation
Teach Loam → Practice the idea → Physics Ready to teach
Thrust
Still learning: thrust as Newton’s third law
Teach Thrust → Practice the idea → Genetics Ready to teach
Match
Still learning: allele pairing in a Punnett cross
Teach Match → Practice the idea → Physics Ready to teach
Shift
Still learning: phase change / latent heat
Teach Shift → Practice the idea → Perception Ready to teach
Stack
Still learning: the perspective trap
Teach Stack → Practice the idea → Physics Ready to teach
Pry
in MachineForge
Still learning: simple machines trade force for distance
Teach Pry → Practice the idea → Medicine Ready to teach
Ask
Still learning: clinical history-taking
Teach Ask → Practice the idea → Microbiology Ready to teach
Lacto
Still learning: most microbes are helpful
Teach Lacto → Practice the idea → Physics Ready to teach
Keep
Still learning: conservation of energy
Teach Keep → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Predict
Still learning: forming a hypothesis
Teach Predict → Practice the idea → Astronomy Ready to teach
Brawn
Still learning: stellar mass drives a star’s life
Teach Brawn → Practice the idea → Geology Ready to teach
Slide
Still learning: a transform (sliding) fault
Teach Slide → Practice the idea → Physics Ready to teach
Meet
Still learning: wave interference
Teach Meet → Practice the idea → Weather Ready to teach
Press
Still learning: air pressure drives wind
Teach Press → Practice the idea → Nature Ready to teach
Track
Still learning: reading animal sign
Teach Track → Practice the idea → Engineering Ready to teach
Spy
Still learning: mechanism detection
Teach Spy → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Smoke
Still learning: chemosynthesis — some life makes energy from chemicals, not sunlight
Teach Smoke → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Sieve
Still learning: osmosis — water moves toward the saltier side
Teach Sieve → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Glint
Still learning: ice-albedo feedback — melting ice absorbs more heat, melting more ice
Teach Glint → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Branch
Still learning: the tree of life, not a ladder — species branch, they don’t rank
Teach Branch → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Glow
Still learning: a plant’s mass comes mostly from the air (CO₂), not the soil
Teach Glow → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Check
Still learning: control your variables — change one thing at a time
Teach Check → Practice the idea → Physics Ready to teach
Spread
Still learning: dispersion — a prism spreads white light into its colours
Teach Spread → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Note
Still learning: fact vs inference — what you observed vs what you concluded
Teach Note → Practice the idea → Science Ready to teach
Emerge
Still learning: emergence — order can appear with no one in charge
Teach Emerge → Practice the idea → Agriculture Ready to teach
Soil
Still learning: crop rotation — changing what you plant keeps the soil healthy
Teach Soil → Practice the idea → Engineering Ready to teach
Spec
Still learning: design for manufacture — design it so it can actually be built
Teach Spec → Practice the idea → Nature Ready to teach
Way
Still learning: when lost, stop first and orient from a landmark you know
Teach Way → Practice the idea → Perception Ready to teach
Trick
Still learning: forced perspective uses distance, not a giant prop or CGI
Teach Trick → Practice the idea → Chemistry Ready to teach
Crisp
Still learning: browning creates new flavour — it’s a chemical change, not burning
Teach Crisp → Practice the idea → Medicine Ready to teach
Read
Still learning: the truth is the Nutrition Facts, not front-of-package claims
Teach Read → Practice the idea → AI literacy Ready to teach
Skew
Still learning: bias from skewed training data
Teach Skew → Practice the idea → Cryptography Ready to teach
Caesar
Still learning: the Caesar shift cipher
Teach Caesar → Practice the idea → Coding Ready to teach
Order
Still learning: sequence (the order of steps)
Teach Order → Practice the idea → Robotics Ready to teach
Sense
Still learning: sensors
Teach Sense → Practice the idea → AI literacy Ready to teach
Veer
Still learning: overfitting — memorising the examples isn’t learning the pattern
Teach Veer → Practice the idea → Puzzles Ready to teach
Layer
in CubeSensei
Still learning: the layer-by-layer method
Teach Layer → Practice the idea → Logic Ready to teach
Rulewright
Still learning: guess-the-rule induction
Teach Rulewright → Practice the idea → Logic Ready to teach
Cog
Still learning: deduction by elimination
Teach Cog → Practice the idea → Chess Ready to teach
Sir Pinwell
Still learning: the pin
Teach Sir Pinwell → Practice the idea → Strategy Ready to teach
Oddwin
Still learning: parity in Dots-and-Boxes
Teach Oddwin → Practice the idea → Logic Ready to teach
Circular-Reasoning Cici
Still learning: spotting circular reasoning
Teach Circular-Reasoning Cici → Practice the idea → Lateral thinking Ready to teach
Slant
Still learning: lateral thinking
Teach Slant → Practice the idea → Forensics Ready to teach
Loop
Still learning: class vs. individual evidence
Teach Loop → Practice the idea → Logic Ready to teach
Onlie
Still learning: the forced cell — the square only one value can legally go in
Teach Onlie → Practice the idea → Strategy Ready to teach
Prong
Still learning: the fork — one move that attacks two things at once
Teach Prong → Practice the idea → Strategy Ready to teach
Bram
Still learning: reading your partner — their bids and plays are information
Teach Bram → Practice the idea → Strategy Ready to teach
Peglegra
Still learning: the hit isn’t luck — good position sets up the roll
Teach Peglegra → Practice the idea → Puzzles Ready to teach
Evan
Still learning: parity — some puzzle positions are provably unsolvable
Teach Evan → Practice the idea → Strategy Ready to teach
Trade
Still learning: equal value isn’t equal worth — a fair trade depends on the position
Teach Trade → Practice the idea → Strategy Ready to teach
River Chu
Still learning: crossing the river transforms a soldier — it changes what the piece can do
Teach River Chu → Practice the idea → Strategy Ready to teach
Hungry Crane
Still learning: territory, not captures — surround space instead of just taking stones
Teach Hungry Crane → Practice the idea → Lateral thinking Ready to teach
Knot
in WitQuest
Still learning: a riddle’s clues logically narrow to one answer
Teach Knot → Practice the idea → Puzzles Ready to teach
Rung
Still learning: a word ladder changes exactly one letter per step, every rung a real word
Teach Rung → Practice the idea → Strategy Games Ready to teach
Dropcatch Dai
Still learning: a captured shogi piece joins your side and can be dropped back in
Teach Dropcatch Dai → Practice the idea → Strategy Games Ready to teach
Bounder
Still learning: one move can be a chain of hops over any pegs
Teach Bounder → Practice the idea → Strategy Games Ready to teach
Miller Mila
Still learning: a mill is three in a straight row, and it removes an enemy piece
Teach Miller Mila → Practice the idea → Strategy Games Ready to teach
Capture Koro
Still learning: capture only when your last seed makes a pit hold 2 or 3
Teach Capture Koro → Practice the idea → History Ready to teach
The Witness
Still learning: primary sources
Teach The Witness → Practice the idea → Urban design Ready to teach
Lane
Still learning: walkability
Teach Lane → Practice the idea → Civics Ready to teach
Level
Still learning: the rule of law
Teach Level → Practice the idea → Archaeology Ready to teach
Layer
in DigQuest
Still learning: the Law of Superposition
Teach Layer → Practice the idea → Geography Ready to teach
Key
Still learning: reading a map legend (key)
Teach Key → Practice the idea → Economics Ready to teach
Forgo
Still learning: opportunity cost
Teach Forgo → Practice the idea → Mythology Ready to teach
Trickster
Still learning: the trickster archetype
Teach Trickster → Practice the idea → Entrepreneurship Ready to teach
Listen
Still learning: customer discovery
Teach Listen → Practice the idea → Civics Ready to teach
Consequence
Still learning: an ethical framework is one lens among several, not the whole map
Teach Consequence → Practice the idea → Economics Ready to teach
Spot
Still learning: scam-detection — verify the source, not the official/urgent look
Teach Spot → Practice the idea → Mythology Ready to teach
Honor
Still learning: a ‘how’ model and a meaning-story answer different questions — both can be true
Teach Honor → Practice the idea → Geography Ready to teach
Origin
Still learning: no place is ‘discovered’ — every land is already someone’s home
Teach Origin → Practice the idea → Civics Ready to teach
Notice
Still learning: a barrier is a property of the space (the stair), not the person
Teach Notice → Practice the idea → Social Studies · Civic Action Research Ready to teach
Kwesi
Still learning: frame an issue by its fixable cause, not by blaming people
Teach Kwesi → Practice the idea → Music Ready to teach
Lull
Still learning: a rest is counted silence that takes up exact beats
Teach Lull → Practice the idea → Music Ready to teach
Triad
Still learning: a triad stacks in thirds (root, third, fifth) — not any three notes
Teach Triad → Practice the idea → Music Ready to teach
Twine
Still learning: a counter-melody is its own line, not the backing chords
Teach Twine → Practice the idea → Social & Emotional Learning Ready to teach
Skerry
Still learning: each corner of the feelings map holds many feelings, not one
Teach Skerry → Practice the idea → Study Skills & Learning Science Ready to teach
Reeva
Still learning: close the book and recall before you check
Teach Reeva → Practice the idea → Computer Science · Reading code Ready to teach
Scamper
Still learning: tracing: read each line and keep a table before you say what it prints
Teach Scamper → Practice the idea →Graduates' Hall
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