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Space Math Academy

https://space-math.academy
21•dynamicwebpaige•3d ago

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dynamicwebpaige•3d ago
Introducing Space Math Academy!

Reimagined NASA’s Space Math curriculum (https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/) as an immersive game, instead of static PDFs. Students solve the same problems real scientists face daily -- calculating orbits and trajectories, dealing with space weather, etc. -- in an interactive way that goes beyond worksheets (or just sending PDFs to an LLM).

https://space-math.academy https://www.github.com/dynamicwebpaige/space-math

Powered by Gemini for storytelling and text-to-speech (TTS). Links to the GitHub repo and live link that you can play above, thanks to Google Cloud Run. Please file feature requests, if there's enough interest will add more missions and a leaderboard.

burkaman•2h ago
Only had a couple minutes to try this but I'm already confused by a couple things.

- "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE" I guess this is a joke but I don't really get it, just seems like a weird thing to have there.

- In the first popup, the "audio transmission" is significantly different than the printed text.

- "The Earth is a sphere." - this is not true, I think it should be classified as a hypothesis

- "The universe is expanding." Isn't this a theory? I don't think it can be called "a basic statement", it is a well-tested theory based on a lot of observational evidence.

- "Humans and gorillas evolved from a common ancestor species." This is obviously a theory, it's like THE theory when you need an example of what a theory is. You cannot establish this by experiment or observation.

- "Light is an electromagnetic phenomenon described by Maxwell's Laws" Why is this classified as a theory?

etc.

The categorization of this first lesson seems very arbitrary, and often contradictory with the "knowledge database" on the left.

Edit: Did you AI-generate these questions and then not proofread them?

0wis•2h ago
Seems fun but unusable on mobile. Windows are not responsive enough. General design seems fun though
OkayPhysicist•2h ago
"If I jump out a window I will die"

Is not a fact: I have never died jumping out of a window, thus it is a hypothesis (because it is testable, though that raise epistemological problems in of itself)

ricksunny•1h ago
viz. this evergreen gem: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/12/13/we-jumped-from-planes-w...
constantcrying•1h ago
>Math

But the first exercise is about judging statements based on nebulous definitions, definitely unrelated to mathematics?

nimonian•16m ago
Mathematics is concerned with a lot more than arithmetic and computation. Beyond the most basic levels, a mathematician will profit greatly from being aware of this type of epistemological vocabulary and a strong sense of their underlying meaning. Whether reading or writing mathematics, we're constantly dealing with propositions, and correctly taxonomising those propositions can really help keep your mental workspace clean.

I do question the effectiveness (and accuracy) of this exercise, but its learning objectives I think are quite apt.

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