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Tom writes research-backed STEM content that explores what kids actually learn from robotics and math. He covers cognitive development studies, surprising math facts, and more. His approach blends scientific evidence with practical insights.

Three countries tested robotics in schools. Here's what they found.

Three countries tested robotics in schools. Here's what they found.

3 countries. Hundreds of kids. One clear finding: ages 6–10 is the sweet spot for robotics and most schools aren't filling that window. Here's what Austria, Lithuania, and Romania found when they asked everyone honestly what's working.

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #4

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #4

The Romans had no symbol for zero. This wasn't a minor gap, it made their entire number system nearly unusable for anything complicated. Four, meanwhile, is the only number in English whose name contains exactly as many letters as its value.

Is It Just Play? What's Actually Happening When Your Kid Builds Robots

Is It Just Play? What's Actually Happening When Your Kid Builds Robots

Your child is building, programming, watching things move or fail to move. It looks like play. It is play. It's also teaching three thinking skills that transfer to everything else and you can tell it's working without giving them a single test.

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #3

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #3

Some infinities are larger than others. Georg Cantor proved this in the 1870s and it made several of his colleagues extremely angry. Also: you cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than seven or eight times, and if you could fold it 42 times it would reach the Moon.

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #2

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #2

Spell out any odd number in English and the letter "e" is in there. Every single one, all the way to infinity. Then there's the 'googol'. It is bigger than all the atoms in the observable universe, named by a 9-year-old who was asked to think of something enormous.

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #1

Math Facts That'll Make You Say "Wait, What?" #1

The Koch Snowflake has an infinite perimeter that fits inside a finite space. Pi has been calculated to 105 trillion decimal places and nobody knows if it ends. Two facts that have nothing to do with homework and everything to do with why maths is strange.

Why Encourage Robotics? It's More Than Just Robots

Why Encourage Robotics? It's More Than Just Robots

Robotics teaches children that they can figure things out. Not in theory — in practice, with something that's broken in front of them and no instructions for fixing it. That shift in how a child sees difficulty is worth more than any specific skill they pick up along the way.