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by threatofrain 3125 days ago
I know a young child who is going through Scratch, but also no big success, but then the child was introduced to Racket and is now using it as a math companion tool, such as for visualizations and calculations.

The child was encouraged to build general solutions to homework, and suddenly a lot of schoolwork with tedious arithmetic seems boring to the child.