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Re:Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014) by roceasta on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @09:35AM (#15174907)
Nicely illustrated. As you imply, the scariness is a property of schooling rather than of mathematics itself. And where game play is scary, it's at a level chosen by and controlled by the player, for optimal learning I suspect.
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Re:Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014) by occultist_throw on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:47AM (#15175698)
Not only that, but with "GPA" provides a running historical average that serves as a sign that:

"No matter how good the student is now, they sucked at one time and they can never escape this eventuality".

Imagine a game that's tough, full of oft-used rules, failure potentialities everywhere, limited lives, and punishes failure/learning cycle. That's School.

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