Curriculum

• Level 1 (0–4)
• Level 2 (4–6)
• Level 3 (6–8)
• Level 4 (8–10)
• Level 5 (10–12)
• Level 6 (13+)

All educational systems around the world use different names, grades, guidelines, and tests. Additionally, many of these are simply wrong, because people progress and develop at different speeds and in different ways.

That’s why we simplified our system to a handful of “levels”. In the curriculum below, we state the grade or age range that is typically associated with a level, based on four countries (USA, UK, AU and NL).

This is, however, not a requirement in any way! Someone age 5 might have the math proficiency of someone age 10, and it would be foolish to keep them locked inside a specific grade (doing the same easy exercises over and over).

If you are a teacher, you can look up the subject you want to teach and see what’s inside. Use one or two of the resources for your full lesson or to amend an existing lesson. (We understand fully that teachers are bound by the rules of their school and government curriculum and thus try to make our resources fit.)

If you are a parent (or otherwise a tutor outside of the system), you can use this curriculum as a reference about what to teach and when. (It’s overwhelming to homeschool and figure it out all by yourself!) That said, you have the freedom to click around and do things in a different order.

Once you’ve picked a subject to teach, you can also use our Magical Helpful Hat to generate a lesson plan for you. It will pick a selection of resources from that topic and bundle them for you. You merely need to click the button and then follow the plan; no need for more steps or hard decisions to make.

As explained in our Philosophy, we don’t actually support this idea of requiring certain topics to be taught at specific ages or in rigid ways. We merely provide this curriculum for people who do believe it’s important and want a blueprint to reference.

All that needs to happen for someone to learn, is to be exposed to a lot of varied challenges. Just provide them with lots of things to do. And when they’ve been doing the same thing for a while now, do something different. If a challenge is too hard now, switch to a different challenge and come back to it later.

It’s not even a requirement to do things in any sensible order. Kids will figure things out. And if they don’t, no harm done, now you have more data about what challenges they can handle. Yes, this can get messy. That’s good. Life is messy. Learning is messy.

Our brains create new connections and memories through association, which requires messiness. Without creating mess first, there is not even a definition of order that a brain can slowly figure out.

In that sense, very structured and neatly compartmentalized learning plans look good superficially but are actually harmful to learning.

Sticking to a rigid curriculum has even more downsides, such as being outdated easily. Notice, for example, how most curriculae around the world still don’t include digital skills / informatics. Even though 90+% of our lives is digital now, and some babies touch a tablet before they touch another toy. Instead, if you simply use the entire world as your playground and learn from it as you go, you can never be outdated.