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An Orderly Path, Not a Pile of Random Lessons
Ten things Primer gives your student that a ChatGPT lesson can’t.
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Primer Forgets Nothing
Every lesson, question, and raised hand shapes what your student learns next.
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Just Parents, Like You
Primer was started by parents who wanted their kids to succeed. Here is our story, and how you can help build it with us.
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Primer Is Now on iPhone
Primer is now on iPhone. Lessons on the go, in the App Store today.
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A Worksheet With Their Name on It
A printable worksheet for every lesson, written for your student by name. Ask your teacher for more any time.
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Introducing Cinematic Lessons
Full-screen lessons with visuals drawn for the idea on the screen.
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Five Steps, Not a Video and a Quiz
Why every Primer lesson moves through five steps, and what Unplugged is really for.
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You are the principal now
Skills, Paths, and Curriculum: what each one is, and who decides.
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Theo wants to learn circuits. Maya wants to be a horse vet.
Type what your kid actually wants to learn. Primer builds the rest.
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Handwriting Practice
Every worksheet built for your student. Trace, write, repeat, on iPad or paper.
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Why No Two Primer Lessons Are the Same
Built from your intake, shaped by your feedback, tuned to what your child loves.
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The summer I stopped taping a curriculum together
Five logins, three teacher’s guides, and none of it talked to each other. A note from Beth.
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