Meta DAX › Homeschooling
You know your child. That is the part no system can do.
The rest of the preparing, Meta DAX does: what to do next, what you need, what to say and what to skip, the slips that are normal, and a page for your child with something to do in it. After each session you tell it how it went, in a few lines, and the next one comes back shaped by it.
Tell us where your child is stuck and we will build you one, free ↓
A sample: Megan and Liam
Megan homeschools Liam, eleven, who knows his baseball stats cold and wrote 1/2 + 1/3 = 2/5.
An inning has six outs, so half an inning is three outs, a third is two, and a half plus a third is five outs out of six. By the end of session one he said “oh, it’s just outs.” This is the page Meta DAX hands them for session four. The first tab is for Megan. The second is for Liam, and it is a game. Try it. Everyone in it is made up.
Open it on its own page → Or see Le Stade des Fractions, a 3D French pack The other five samples
Built for this chair
- Words into Algebra A tutor's kit for turning sentences into equations: five interactive 3D scenes, three routes for the time you have, and a pause before every example.
- One dish, its story A Jaffna curry in a 3D kitchen, Tamil & English, read by someone from the community.
- Le Stade des Fractions French fractions in a 3D stadium.
- Carrying tens with marble runs freezes before trying; writes column totals side by side instead of carrying
- Blending sounds with dinosaurs says each letter sound correctly but cannot push the sounds together into a word
- One backyard science lesson for mixed ages keeping mixed ages engaged together without the oldest waiting and the youngest drifting
- Fractions at the kitchen table, two ages at once the younger thinks a bigger bottom number means a bigger piece; the older can name fractions but not add halves and quarters
- Turning a hockey argument into a paragraph (session two) can argue a point out loud for ten minutes but freezes when asked to put the same case in a written paragraph
- Telling time with a real bus timetable (print-first) reads the hour hand but not the minutes; cannot yet work out how long until something happens
- The water cycle in a jar can recite the words evaporation and condensation but cannot say what is actually happening to the water or why
- Interviewing a grandparent about a small town treats history as dates and names to memorise and cannot see it as something that happened to actual people
- Quick maths facts with dominoes can count on to reach a fact but has not made the facts automatic; rebuilds every answer from one
- Reading for meaning with animal facts reads every word aloud accurately but cannot say what a passage was about afterwards
- Finding the earliest gap with stepping stones arrived home learning behind in both reading and maths, with scattered gaps, and the guide cannot tell where to restart
- Spelling by sound with counters reads a little but writes a string of random letters for a spelling word, because he does not yet hear the separate sounds in it
- Retelling it in three fingers after a read-aloud or short passage, cannot recall it, or gives a one-sentence summary that misses the point
- The blank-page frame capable and careful, but freezes and writes nothing when asked to write something open-ended
- Mistakes are safe: catch my mistake gets upset and walks away whenever he gets something wrong — a count, a puzzle piece, a letter — so being wrong ends the work before it starts
- From tracing to her own words traces letters and short sentences neatly, and the parent wonders whether tracing is enough writing or whether something more should be happening
- Decodables to real books: take turns reads decodable readers fine in lessons but will not try a real book on his own — closes it, or asks to be read to instead
- Counting with what she already plays with counts out loud to ten by rote but cannot say how many are in a small pile — the words are a song, not yet a count of things
- One question a week treats science as facts to be told and has stopped wondering out loud — never asks why things happen, and waits to be given the answer
- Science words that stick learns a science word for the quiz and loses it a week later — the definition was memorised, never attached to anything real
- Grammar from your own book can do a grammar worksheet but cannot find the same thing in a real sentence, or use it in his own writing — the rule and the reading live in separate boxes
- First grade around a work day the parent works from home and cannot see how lessons fit a working day, and the learner drifts when a lesson runs long
- Check the facts before you switch multi-digit multiplication and long division keep falling apart, and the parent is about to switch maths programmes to fix it
- The Six-Out Inning Adding fractions with different bottom numbers, through baseball.
- Real or Scam? Spotting phone, text and email scams.
What you get
Your side
- Up next. The plan for the session: what you need (paper, a pencil, bottle caps, twenty minutes), how it goes step by step, what to say, what to skip. One line of why under each step, so it becomes yours.
- What we’ve learned. About your child, and about you, session by session. “Guessing frustrated you. So: guessing became part of the game.”
- When it’s tricky. If he goes quiet after a wrong answer. If you lose track yourself. If the little sister wants in.
- Tell us and ask. A note to fill in after the session and send back, and a prompt you can paste into your own AI chat when you want to think it through. You ask. Your child never does.
Your child’s side
- A page that looks like their world, not a worksheet: for Liam, a ballpark with a scoreboard.
- A game with no AI in it. They choose first, then see. Every wrong answer is matched to the exact mistake behind it, with its own explanation. It gets harder after a streak and easier after a miss.
- The questions they might ask next, answered two levels deep, so you are not caught out by “but why?”
- Your turn to lead. One moment in every session where your child is a step ahead of you on something and teaches you. Liam knew what 5.2 innings meant before his mom did. Session four, he leads the first ten minutes.
Why it is built this way
Everyone is a learner. Whoever is a step ahead, right now, on this, is the guide.
You are the guide on your child, on your home, on patience at the end of a long day. Your child is the guide on box scores, or horses, or whatever they know cold, and the page is built through that. The lead swings back and forth on purpose. Learning happens just past what a person can do alone, and not further; the page is there to put the next step within reach for both of you, and then get out of your way.
Every time it takes the preparing off you, it hands you back the twenty minutes you would have spent on it, and one question comes with them: what is it that only you can do here? Notice when he goes quiet. Decide whether to push on or stop. Explain it in your own words. That is the measure we build to, and it has a name: human delta value, what a person brings. A page that leaves you nothing to bring is a page we got wrong.
What we will not do
- Nothing invites your child to chat with an AI. Their page is a game and a set of answered questions; they use it with you beside them.
- No accounts, no sign-up, nothing stored about your child or you on our side. The page keeps a game badge in your own browser and nothing else.
- No names and nothing that identifies anyone in what you send us, and none in what comes back.
- The page never leads. It offers one way; it never says “this is the way.” You decide what to use.
- You read it before your child does. It was written with help from AI and read in full by a person before it went out, and you are the last check.
The offer
Tell us where your child is stuck. We will build you a page like this one, free.
Send a few lines. No names, nothing that identifies anyone.
- Your child’s age, and that you homeschool.
- The subject, and the exact spot where it keeps going wrong. “Fractions with different bottom numbers. He wrote 1/2 + 1/3 = 2/5.”
- What they love. Baseball, horses, Minecraft, baking, the lake. That is what the page gets built through.
- What you have tried, and what happened.
- Anything about how they learn: hates worksheets, thinks best standing up, goes quiet when wrong, twenty minutes and then done.
Use the guided questionnaire to build your note and send it to Jason, or reply where you found this, or write to Jason on LinkedIn. What comes back is a page like the one above: one side for you, one for your child. Then tell us how session one went, and session two comes back shaped by it. Your scenario, with nothing identifying in it, may become one of the samples here, so that the next parent with the same stuck spot gets a head start.
Meta DAX is open and it is free, not freemium, not free-for-some, and it is being built by one person out of his own pocket. If a page helps you, and you can, his note and where to buy him a coffee are on the front page. It goes to him personally, not the Foundation and not the company. You can also sponsor Meta DAX on GitHub.
Run it yourself, free
It runs on the AI subscription you already have. Use the guided questionnaire to build and send your note, or drop the homeschool skill into your assistant and it knows the whole flow.
Have it done for you
Want it set up and run for you instead? Obsidian Delta, the company, sells that — done-for-you, paid. The Foundation’s work stays free; this is a way to have someone else do the work.
What you’ll see: walk through a session, step by step →
MetaDAX is free. It is built on paid compute. If it helped, a coffee on Ko-fi or a GitHub sponsorship keeps it going.
Where this is, honestly
Meta DAX is a research project of the DAX Foundation, open on GitHub. The long-term aim is universal learning: every human being, any subject, free, forever, designed first for someone with five minutes of connectivity a day. We are developing this for all bandwidths! The samples here are built one at a time, with help from AI, from what a parent tells us; the system that will one day write a whole course from one sentence has so far only run with a model in both chairs. One of its first experiments, E09, is exactly this: the records a homeschooling parent would want to keep. It has run once, with models playing six parents, and five of the six sets of records could be filed as they were. Your scenarios are how it starts. Everything Meta DAX → How to use it, step by step → Browse the sample library →