

About a quarter of kids hate or dislike math, and about a third are indifferent toward it, according to a 2018 survey from Texas Instruments, maker of the ubiquitous graphic calculator. Math gets a particularly bad rep, especially among adults who struggle with the subject, but also among some kids. “So we can reuse a lot of the Duolingo mechanics and a lot of the Duolingo smarts.”īuilding a fun, successful math curriculum could be a challenge. “Upper level math requires hard to understand concepts, but a lot of the elementary school math is just if you just repeat it a gazillion times, you get good at it,” von Ahn said.
