From "I don't get it" to "oh." In one evening.
One question, drawn out, tried once, practised until it sticks, and written up on Sunday. That's the whole loop. Here it is, step by step, with a bit you can try.
A doubt and a subject are not the same errand.
Answered the moment it turns up.
Half a sentence is enough, and so is a photo of the worksheet. Wobo works out what is actually being asked and answers it in whatever form the idea needs, so it never gets a chance to pile up into the thing they are afraid of.
- After school, between classes, on the way home, over the weekend
- Drawn on a board, played as a short film, built as a thing to drag, or said out loud
- Worked out into the chapter of your own syllabus it belongs to
Built a bit at a time, so exam week is revision.
A chapter is not finished because you reached the end of it. Wobo checks the ground underneath before it teaches a topic, and brings one back when what you answered stops holding.
- Three questions at most on the ground beneath a topic, before the topic
- Completed is not learnt: a topic that stops holding comes back on its own
- Nothing is ever locked, and the ground check can be skipped
Ask, the way you'd ask a friend.
Half a sentence is fine. A photo of the worksheet is fine. Wobo works out what's actually being asked, and which chapter of your syllabus it lives in.
Drawn out, one line at a time.
Not a paragraph. A board. The triangle appears, then the squares, then the numbers, in the order a good teacher would draw them, with Wobo talking as it goes. Pause it, rewind it, circle any bit and ask why.
Try one. Wobo rings the gap.
Every lesson ends with you doing it, not watching it. Drag the point onto the line where x = 3. If you're off, Wobo doesn't say wrong, it draws where you are and where the line is, and waits.
The second explanation. Then the third.
Two misses on the same idea, not one, and Wobo changes how it is teaching without being asked. One wrong answer is as often a slipped thumb as a misunderstanding. Twice on the same thing is a pattern, and what changes then is the route in, never the volume.
Practice that plays fair.
Five short items in the kinds your exam actually uses: shade a region, drag a point, draw a line, put steps in order, type a number. Every one is checked the same way, by ringing the gap, never by flashing red.
Finished is not the same as learnt.
A chapter is not done because you reached the end of it. It is done when what you answered holds, and still holds when Wobo brings it back later. If it stops holding, the chapter returns to your board and names the topic that slipped rather than leaving you to guess. Nothing shuts while you fix it, and nothing ahead is locked either.
The week adds up.
Ten minutes a day beats two hours on Sunday. Wobo keeps the count, notices patterns (asked for help after a miss, twice: good), and says so in its own words, not in a bar chart.
A note home, in Wobo's words.
If a parent is linked, they get the same three lines you do. Warm, honest, specific. Not a dashboard, not a percentage. What happened, and what's next.