Beyond the numbers, growth is a series of accompanied moments.
The evidence tells you whether it works. The story tells you how it happens. Education lives in specific moments — a problem that stalls, a refusal to give up, an "oh, so that's it."
He stares at the problem and erases his answer for the third time.
In the past, this is where he'd give up — wait for a parent, or just copy the answer.
RUDO doesn't give the answer. It asks first.
"Don't rush to calculate. Which number in this problem do you think is trying to trick you?"
He pauses for three seconds — then his eyes light up.
Not an answer he was told, but a step he reached himself. Those five minutes are worth more than ten copied answers.
Mom gets a short growth record.
Not a score — "Today, for the first time, he found the hidden condition and got it right without asking for help." A specific, visible step forward.
What we do isn't make a child grind through a hundred more problems.
It's help him, at the moment he's stuck, think for five more minutes — and fall in love with the feeling of figuring it out.