@nielshoven.bsky.social
Founded Mentava to teach reading in preschool and calculus in middle school. Help me bring back excellence in education. Father of 4.
Hi JD! Iโm looking forward to the nuanced policy discussions that your presence here will inspire ๐
18.06.2025 22:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0People think we created Mentava as an attempt to subvert public education, but it's really an attempt to save it.
As parents demand actual academics for their kids, schools will either need to provide it with rigorous software like Mentava, or families will go somewhere else
Yeah, thatโs why we made Mentava. But software is a lot harder to make and maintain than a book is, so we have to charge for the software
04.02.2025 19:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hmm Iโm so sorry. Weโve had occasional outages in the past, were you able to get it to work?
31.01.2025 22:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I wish there were a way for us to play the audio on each page but it would be so expensive
31.01.2025 22:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0the brief utopian period before Eternal September
19.11.2024 06:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Interesting. This makes sense if you believe there are weaker (solo) engineers who will outperform stronger (solo) engineers when both engineers have access to AI
19.11.2024 06:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Amazon link is here (a.co/d/3KexYS9), or go to www.mentava.com to download a free pdf version.
It's 149 pages, be prepared ๐
To tell if a child is developmentally ready to begin reading, we use emojis to see if they can understand left-to-right reading order.
If they can't tell the difference between ๐ถ๐ (dogfish) and ๐๐ถ (fishdog), then they won't be able to understand the difference between "am" and "ma"
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This is our 149-page Alphabet Sounds book, which recently became Amazon's top new Children's Reading book.
We've now sold over 700 copies, making a profit of $0 (we sell the book at cost and give a pdf version away for free on our website)
Super proud of the team for putting this together!
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