Let's Get Kyurious

Do you remember?? This is about a year back - it appeared that every kid just had to do coding! If not, their future is destroyed!!

This is about the same time when every edtech company was launching a course for coding - and why not? If there is an opportunity, why not make the most of it! We also did it.

But all this triggered a question in our minds -

What is it the kids actually need that is missing from the school curriculum? What is it that we actually want to achieve when we teach them something that is not a part of regular curriculum?

At DUX, we very strongly feel about "real world education" [may be due to our commerce backgrounds and love for economics from a young age]. So this is what we did; we organised a quiz with 500 students and asked them just 5 questions [posting my two favourites here]

• What do you understand by black money?
• What is the full form of ATM?

To our surprise (actually not!)

→ more than 90% of students answered that black is either corruption money or money from illegal activities

→ more than 60% of the students answered that ATM means "Any Time Money"

This cemented our hypothesis that the things that kids (and I am sure a lot of people from our generation) aren't aware of so many things that happen in real life → this cemented the fact that real life economics needs to be taught to students → and this led to the birth of India's first simplified economics course - KYUrious!

With KYUrious, we wanted to trigger conversations at home - conversations like

• What is your credit score dad/mom?
• Do we pay tax on time? Which tax bracket do we fall in?
• How is Maggi still priced INR 12 when the prices of so many other things have grown significantly in the last 20 years?
• Do you know how google makes money?

With KYurious, we wanted the kids to understand demand, supply, pricing, business, and so much more!

We have completed 4 cohorts and every single session I have joined; I have been bowled by the curiosity the kids have. I am still surprised, why are we not solving for this but also a little proud that we took this baby step.

Here is a video from the final session of the last cohort where 10-12 year old kids talk about inflation, stagflation, exchange rates, credit scores etc (we went Facebook Live).

Here is a small promotional video we shot with the kids with the questions that piqued them the most

So why am I talking about this today? Well, simple selfish reason -

• We want to know from you what else should we include in the syllabus for KYUrious. You can check out the current plan here.
• What other things or courses do you think every kid should go through? Things that we have in our minds are
• Money management
• Writing skills