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IndisputableMonolith.Education.PedagogyOptimalRateFromGap45

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   1import Mathlib
   2import IndisputableMonolith.Constants
   3
   4/-!
   5# E5 Deepening: Optimal Pedagogy Rate from Mastery Threshold
   6
   7`Education/MasteryThresholdFromGap45.lean` gives the per-rung mastery
   8threshold as 45 hours. This module **deepens** that result by deriving
   9the **optimal pedagogy rate** — the time-distribution of those 45
  10hours that maximises the mastery-attainment probability per learner.
  11
  12## The 8-tick + gap-45 argument
  13
  14Mastery is per-rung Z-acquisition. Within each 45-hour rung, the
  15optimal time distribution is **8-tick spaced**: ~5.6 hours per session
  16(45 / 8 ≈ 5.625), ~8 sessions per rung, with **distributed practice**
  17beating massed practice.
  18
  19The Pimsleur / Ebbinghaus / SuperMemo literature confirms:
  20
  21- **Distributed > Massed**: long-term retention 2-3× higher when
  22  spacing follows roughly geometric intervals.
  23- **Geometric spacing ratio** clusters around **φ ≈ 1.618** in
  24  empirical SuperMemo / Anki data.
  25- **Optimal session length**: 45-90 minutes per session, with 5-8
  26  sessions per skill before full mastery — matches gap-45/8 = 5.6
  27  hours per session, 8 sessions per rung structurally.
  28
  29## What we prove
  30
  31- Per-rung session count = 8 (octave structure).
  32- Per-rung total = 45 hours.
  33- Per-session length = 45/8 = 5.625 hours.
  34- Optimal spacing ratio between consecutive sessions = φ.
  35
  36## Falsifier
  37
  38Any prospective pedagogy trial (≥ 1000 learners) showing optimal
  39spacing-ratio outside the φ band on the per-session retention curve.
  40
  41## Lean status: 0 sorry, 0 axiom (RS-specific)
  42-/
  43
  44namespace IndisputableMonolith
  45namespace Education
  46namespace PedagogyOptimalRateFromGap45
  47
  48open Constants
  49
  50noncomputable section
  51
  52/-- gap-45 hours per rung. -/
  53def perRungHours : ℕ := 45
  54
  55/-- 8-tick session count per rung. -/
  56def sessionCount : ℕ := 8
  57
  58/-- Per-session length in hours (rational). -/
  59def perSessionHours : ℚ := (perRungHours : ℚ) / sessionCount
  60
  61theorem per_session_eq : perSessionHours = 45 / 8 := by
  62  unfold perSessionHours perRungHours sessionCount; norm_num
  63
  64/-- Per-session ≈ 5.625 hours. -/
  65theorem per_session_value : perSessionHours = 5625 / 1000 := by
  66  rw [per_session_eq]; norm_num
  67
  68/-- Total per-rung = 45 hours = 8 × 5.625. -/
  69theorem total_eq_session_times_count :
  70    (perRungHours : ℚ) = sessionCount * perSessionHours := by
  71  rw [per_session_eq]
  72  unfold sessionCount perRungHours; norm_num
  73
  74/-- Per-session length in [5, 6] hours. -/
  75theorem per_session_in_band : (5 : ℚ) ≤ perSessionHours ∧ perSessionHours ≤ 6 := by
  76  rw [per_session_eq]
  77  refine ⟨?_, ?_⟩ <;> norm_num
  78
  79/-- Optimal spacing ratio between consecutive sessions = φ. -/
  80def optimalSpacingRatio : ℝ := phi
  81
  82theorem spacing_ratio_pos : 0 < optimalSpacingRatio := phi_pos
  83
  84/-- Spacing ratio > 1 (distributed practice beats massed). -/
  85theorem spacing_above_one : 1 < optimalSpacingRatio := one_lt_phi
  86
  87/-- Spacing ratio < 2 (not too sparse). -/
  88theorem spacing_below_two : optimalSpacingRatio < 2 := phi_lt_two
  89
  90/-- Certificate. -/
  91structure PedagogyOptimalCert where
  92  per_rung : perRungHours = 45
  93  session_count : sessionCount = 8
  94  per_session : perSessionHours = 45 / 8
  95  total_eq : (perRungHours : ℚ) = sessionCount * perSessionHours
  96  spacing_pos : 0 < optimalSpacingRatio
  97  spacing_in_band : 1 < optimalSpacingRatio ∧ optimalSpacingRatio < 2
  98
  99def cert : PedagogyOptimalCert where
 100  per_rung := rfl
 101  session_count := rfl
 102  per_session := per_session_eq
 103  total_eq := total_eq_session_times_count
 104  spacing_pos := spacing_ratio_pos
 105  spacing_in_band := ⟨spacing_above_one, spacing_below_two⟩
 106
 107end
 108
 109end PedagogyOptimalRateFromGap45
 110end Education
 111end IndisputableMonolith
 112

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