How Math Academy Creates its Knowledge Graph
“How do you create your knowledge graph? How do you map out the topics at the appropriate level of granularity and set the connectivity (prerequisite & encompassing relationships)?”
The answer is actually pretty simple but it tends to frustrate the kinds of people who are always searching for some “secret trick” to avoid work that feels difficult and tedious.
The secret sauce is really just doing a shit-ton of work to accumulate domain expertise in math and teaching and then doing a shit-ton more work to encode that domain expertise into our knowledge graph structure.
Whenever we plan out a course we take a look at numerous other textbooks and online resources, but ultimately it just comes down to our own best judgement based on our own teaching/tutoring experience and knowledge of the subject matter.
Doing this manually might feel challenging and tedious at the beginning but in my/our experience it comes easier as you gain experience with it.
