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Need to give this a try.

"Delight. Whenever possible we want students to experience the same sense of delight about math that all of us at Desmos feel. Students can experience that delight both in pure and applied contexts and Marbleslides is that latter experience. Seriously, try not to grin."

"Intellectual skills, in contrast, have to do with a person's ways of reasoning, hypothesizing, exploring, understanding, and, in general, making sense of the world.  Every child is, by nature, an intellectual being--a curious, sense-making person, who is continuously seeking to understand his or her physical and social environments.  Each child is born with such skills and develops them further, in his or her own ways, through observing, exploring, playing, and questioning.  Attempts to teach intellectual skills directly inevitably fail, because each child must develop them in his or her own way, through his or her own self-initiated activities.  But adults can influence that development through the environments they provide.  "

Certainly true for me in a variety of areas of learning . . . "Programming was taught to me in a similar way - and for students to attain true understanding, this doesn't feel like it's the best way to learn. There is a literal learning curve to programming, and once you hit the inflection point of that curve you become somewhat self reliant. You know what to ask Google, you know the process of debugging, and you start to realize you're capable of accomplishing anything by yourself. But if you haven't hit that point yet, it can feel like you may never hit that point. Traditional methods of testing and gauging progress among students who are at different points in their capacity to learn programming don't feel quite fair, and I believe this discourages many (particularly underrepresented minorities) from continuing to learn how to code."

Certainly true for me in a variety of areas of learning . . . "Programming was taught to me in a similar way - and for students to attain true understanding, this doesn't feel like it's the best way to learn. There is a literal learning curve to programming, and once you hit the inflection point of that curve you become somewhat self reliant. You know what to ask Google, you know the process of debugging, and you start to realize you're capable of accomplishing anything by yourself. But if you haven't hit that point yet, it can feel like you may never hit that point. Traditional methods of testing and gauging progress among students who are at different points in their capacity to learn programming don't feel quite fair, and I believe this discourages many (particularly underrepresented minorities) from continuing to learn how to code."