[unfocused828]

This seems like a mixture of

A. Relying on geometry and visual metaphors, which seems fantastic from a history-of-mathematics and a visual-working-memory point of view.

B. Encouraging kids to see themselves as mathematicians, which seems healthy.

C. Randomly thinking "kidz these days like tiktok. Put something about that in there." which seems superficial and imposes a lot more work.

[AnimalMuppet]

The thing is that visual metaphors don't scale. And when the problem gets too complicated for you to visualize it accurately, if you can't do the chain-of-steps-on-paper approach, you're stuck.

So, this approach may be fine, to get kids interested in mathematics and give them some intuition about what's going on. But an actual education can't stop there.