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The Secret Life of Everything

Like Duolingo, but for The Secret Life of Everything. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

26 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Radley the Raccoon
The Secret Life of Everything
with Radley the Raccoon
26
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in The Secret Life of Everything

  • Inferences combine text and experience
  • Emotions through body language
  • Physical details imply events
  • Actions reveal internal feelings
  • Authors use sensory changes to foreshadow events
  • Inferences are made by combining text evidence with personal experience
  • Implicit meaning requires the reader to connect dots left by the author
  • Identifying character emotions through behavioral clues
  • Division is used to split a total into equal groups
  • Estimating the duration of a task
  • Fairness in math means everyone receives the same amount
  • Subtracting time from a deadline to find a start time
  • Multiplication determines the total resources needed for repeated groups
  • Applying division to ensure fair distribution among a group
  • Comparing a total needed to a total available
  • Identifying character emotions through behavioral clues rather than direct labels
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives The Secret Life of Everything the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Reading Between the Lines

If an author describes a character with a 'wide, beaming smile,' what are they trying to do?

Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.

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Where The Secret Life of Everything takes you

Discover how the world works by solving real-life mysteries. From decoding hidden messages in stories to calculating the speed of a falling apple, you'll learn to see the math and science hiding in plain sight.

  1. 1

    Be a World Explorer

    • Finding Clues in What You Read
    • Using Math to Solve Daily Problems
    • Predicting What Happens Next in Nature
    • Measuring Your Own Backyard
  2. 2

    Think Like a Pro

    • Spotting Patterns in Numbers
    • How to Win an Argument with Facts
    • The Way Living Things Grow
    • Fractions in the Kitchen
    • Understanding Characters and Their Choices
    • Forces That Push and Pull Us
  3. 3

    The Big Picture

    • How Energy Moves Through Everything
    • The Math Behind the Stars
    • Why Authors Write the Way They Do

3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

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The Secret Life of Everything is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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