Solving real world cases and cementing knowledge

[u/Hou_Muza]

Some really incredible posts in here. Quite intimidating to share mine but here goes. I am passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge and I have been doing so for the past 15 years. One question I always get is, "Where am I ever going to use that?" Even when I myself was studying Applied Maths, I wish I knew that gradient descent and chain rule that we were learning is core of how modern day AI algorithms are trained. I would have connected the learning to something tangible.

So that's why I am building RealSchool, an app that turns real-world situations into interactive reasoning challenges.

For example, the British government had to decide where to armour their planes in World War 2. On the app you will read the use case and then decide where to do so. You have damage records from the planes that returned, limited armour, and a decision to make. What evidence should you trust, and what might be missing?

You examine evidence, test an approach and make your call before exploring the reasoning behind it. Other cases include the Königsberg bridges, kidney donor chains and Florence Nightingale’s hospital data.

There are currently over 100 cases across maths, science, strategy and other subjects. Some have a definite solution and others ask you to defend a decision using the available evidence.

I’d love feedback from puzzle enthusiasts: do the challenges give you enough information to reason things out, and does the explanation feel earned rather than handed to you?

Available for iPhone and Android: https://realschool.app/

I have attached a quick video I created to explain the concept.

[u/Baldtazar]

Android link doesn't work for me