Localization is more important than you might think.
My wife worked for a company that helped provide teaching content for schools throughout Brazil. They'd interview teachers all over the country and one of the complaints from teachers in isolated communities was that they had to use the same textbooks as other places in Brazil without any regard to their own situation.
They reported that many examples for starting math for kids featured things like "strawberries" or "apples", things the kids had never seen or maybe heard. So now they needed to abstract over what is a "fruit" and a "countable object" as well as whatever the example was trying to teach. Teachers reported less engagement and it was more work for them to adapt it to local relevance.
Try to teach kids about vegetables in the US midwest and use green beans and Bok Choy as an example, for instance. It doesn't make sense.
wil421
They don’t have green beans in the Midwest?
We bought kids toys on Amazon and the fruits were strange. Not sure if they were Asian varieties or just made up.
My wife worked for a company that helped provide teaching content for schools throughout Brazil. They'd interview teachers all over the country and one of the complaints from teachers in isolated communities was that they had to use the same textbooks as other places in Brazil without any regard to their own situation.
They reported that many examples for starting math for kids featured things like "strawberries" or "apples", things the kids had never seen or maybe heard. So now they needed to abstract over what is a "fruit" and a "countable object" as well as whatever the example was trying to teach. Teachers reported less engagement and it was more work for them to adapt it to local relevance.
Try to teach kids about vegetables in the US midwest and use green beans and Bok Choy as an example, for instance. It doesn't make sense.