About MQC.academy
MQC.academy is the education imprint of Spin Dynamics LLC Press. We publish an age-scaled quantum computing curriculum for Grades 4 through 12.
Mission
Make quantum computing learnable at every grade without teaching anything a student will later have to unlearn. Younger learners get stories, games, cards and experiments. Older learners get algebra, matrices, proofs and code.
How the curriculum was built
The source foundation is a graduate-level quantum computing course covering classical versus quantum information, superposition, quantization, spin and the Stern–Gerlach experiment, qubits and Dirac notation, computational bases and the Bloch sphere, inner and outer products, entanglement and Bell states, quantum key distribution, quantum gates and reversible operations, Bell-state and GHZ circuits, measurement and no-cloning. It is supplemented by IBM Quantum Learning material on single quantum systems.
Each concept was then re-taught four times, once per band, following a written age-scaling guide. Where a source slide used a pedagogically loose statement, the loose statement is recorded in a register and the precise wording is used in every student-facing page.
Publisher
- Publisher
- Spin Dynamics LLC Press
- Imprint
- MQC.academy
- License
- Classroom photocopying permitted
Why a cat, and why this one
Schrödinger's cat is widely misread. The popular version, a cat that is alive and dead at the same time, is the misconception this curriculum is designed to correct.
Our mascot does not illustrate that version. Erwin Schrödinger devised the cat in 1935 as an argument that the "both at once" reading becomes absurd when scaled up to a cat. It was a criticism, not a description of nature.
Our narrator in the books is Professor Ket, named after the ket |ψ⟩, the notation for a quantum state. Our mark is a qubit state written out in Dirac notation: (1/√2)|0⟩ + (1/√2)|1⟩, with one cat drawn twice: sitting up as |0⟩ and lying down as |1⟩. It is the same cat in both kets because a superposition is one system with two possible outcomes, not two cats. Two amplitudes, each 1/√2, and a measurement that gives one outcome or the other.
The cat is not both. Let's find out what really happens.
Eight rules every module must pass.
Scale concepts
Do not merely simplify vocabulary. A younger learner gets a different learning experience, not a shortened lecture.
Preserve accuracy
No misleading shortcut is taught as a literal fact. Each one gets a correction box.
Spiral
Revisit the same ideas with increasing sophistication across all four bands.
Predict first
Hook, predict, experiment, observe, explain, check, apply, reflect.
Right tone
Curious, energetic, respectful, never childish. No "magic" or "spooky" as the explanation.
Accessible
Plain-language definitions, alt text on every diagram, color-independent coding, printable alternatives.
Safe
Cards, dice, polarized light under supervision, and web simulators. Nothing high-risk.
Attributed
Teacher materials record which source lecture or chapter informed every lesson.
Questions about the books or the curriculum?
Write to info@mqc.academy.