Tips, tutorials, and updates from the MathTabla team.
People say AI is replacing designers. My experience says the opposite. When you need outputs outside the training distribution, you have to scaffold the AI the same way you scaffold a student. Your design skills aren't obsolete. They're the context.
Vibe coding and AI slop have poisoned the conversation. But what if skilled AI usage looks less like copy-pasting and more like engineering? A math teacher's journey from Unity to web apps, and the untapped potential sitting in everyone's half-finished projects.
Three years of summer STAAR retake students at +21 to +34 points over the Texas state average, using Desmos and a scaffold built by hand.
A quick orientation to what MathTabla is, who it's for, and how to start using it — whether you're a student staring down a STAAR retake or a teacher trying to reach a kid who's given up.
The three forms of a line, what they're actually for, and why STAAR students keep missing slope problems that should be free points.
A practical guide to orchestrating a Nuxt frontend with a .NET backend using Aspire's polyglot capabilities. Includes solutions for pnpm quirks, service discovery, and the isProxied pattern.
What if substitution wasn't a symbolic trick but a physical rotation? A deep dive into how MathTabla uses kindergarten manipulatives to teach 7th-grade algebra—and why the cognitive science says it should work.
The first post on the MathTabla blog — why it exists, what it's going to be, and why I'm forcing myself to write.
The scripted curriculum assumes scaffolding is solved. It isn't. The mathematics of how learning actually works tells us why—and why I'm pivoting to MathTabla full time.
