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Love it.",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"8615606","kaoD","Brilliant. I always learnt more by doing. A few years ago I came across ARCalc[0] and playing with it really made me grok functions. Now SineRider gamifyies the exploration of…",{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"8618514","keerthiko","Excellent. This is one of a very rare breed of games that attempts to encourage academic familiarity without ending up with extremely shallow mechanics that are more or less…",{"value":65,"source":66,"evidence":67},"High school students and post-docs learning functions","maker",[68],{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},"8615919","Maybe, but the same content takes weeks or months to cover in high school. 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