SABE Stands for Steven,
Adam, Brittney and Emma.
That's us. There is no company behind this, no curriculum team, no investors. It's a dad, a mom, and two kids who are very good at telling me when something is boring.
It started the way most of this starts — at a kitchen table, with a frustrated child and a worksheet that wasn't landing. Brittney and I pulled the problem apart until we could see the exact place it broke. Not "he's bad at subtraction." The specific moment where the thing stopped making sense.
Then I built something around that moment. Not a lesson about it — a game where the only way forward was through it. Adam and Emma played it, told me what was confusing and what was dull, and I rebuilt it. Sometimes four or five times.
When it finally worked, the strange thing was how little it felt like teaching. He spent twenty minutes dragging blocks around, because dragging blocks around was the game. Nobody lectured him about place value. But by the end he could tell me exactly why ten ones become a ten — he'd done it with his own hands forty times over.
Everything on this site came out of that loop. It's what worked for our kids. We put it here in case it works for yours.