Binary, built not just explained
Students physically represent numbers in binary using simple light/dark tokens before ever seeing it as an abstract concept.
Math for Computers
The math that makes a computer do anything at all.
Binary, logic and algorithms — taught by building small, visible things a student can watch run, not by filling out worksheets. The foundation underneath our AI-coding course.
- Every concept has a visible result
- Feeds directly into the coding course
- Logic you can test, not just define
Math you can watch run
Every concept ends in something visible.
A computer only ever knows two states — on or off. Everything else in this course is built up from that, one visible step at a time.
Logic as puzzles
AND, OR and NOT are taught as puzzles with a checkable right answer, not as definitions to memorize.
Algorithms as recipes
An algorithm is introduced as a precise recipe a friend could follow — including the version that gives a wrong result because a step was ambiguous.
Feeds the coding course directly
Every concept here is one a student will need, by name, the moment they start describing instructions to an AI programming partner.
The foundation under the code
Numbers a computer can actually use.
A computer only ever knows on or off. The course starts there: turning familiar numbers into binary by hand, before ever touching a keyboard.
From binary, the course moves to logic — true/false conditions — and then to algorithms: precise, ordered instructions, worked out on paper and with small physical exercises before any of it becomes code.
Every idea here reappears, by name, in the AI-coding course — a student who's done this one already knows what "condition" and "step-by-step" mean the moment it's time to describe a game to build.
What a student walks away with
Concepts they'll actually use.
Not math for a test — math for the moment a student needs to describe exactly what they want to a machine.
Converts number systems
Comfortably converts small numbers between decimal and binary by hand.
Reads and writes logical conditions
States a real rule as a true/false condition — "if health is zero," "if the key was pressed."
Explains what an algorithm is
Defines an algorithm as an exact, ordered set of steps — and can spot one that's dangerously ambiguous.
Ready for the coding course
Arrives at Squirrel Wisdom's coding course already fluent in the vocabulary it depends on.
Curious what your student would build once the math clicks?
This course is the foundation — the coding course is where it gets used.