Built by a classroom teacher, for real classrooms
Who's behind Academic Assistance Online, Didactic Consulting Publishing, and SketchEd — and how they fit together.
Ashish C. Abraham
Ashish C. Abraham is an educator and curriculum writer based in New York. He teaches financial literacy to high school students at Yeshiva Tiferet Tzion in Forest Hills, Queens, and built Money Decisions out of the lessons he teaches there. He is also the creator of the SketchEd science workbook series, which uses the same sketch-and-crossword method to help students internalize vocabulary. Through Didactic Consulting Publishing, he publishes practical, classroom-ready workbooks that help students see money — and learning — a little differently.
His books share one idea: students learn vocabulary — and the ideas it carries — when they make it their own. That's why a Money Decisions lesson ends with a Sketch the Words page and a crossword, and why every SketchEd book asks students to draw, solve, color and label.
The SketchEd Science books are co-authored with Dr. Tena Abraham. WordSketch is written by Ashish C. Abraham.
How the pieces fit together
Chakkumkal LLC
The company behind everything on this site.
Academic Assistance Online
The storefront at academicassistance.online: every book with its cover and description, classroom-set ordering for schools, and the Go Further pages that the QR codes in our printed books open.
Didactic Consulting Publishing
The publisher and imprint of Money Decisions. Practical, classroom-ready workbooks that help students see money — and learning — a little differently.
SketchEd
The science workbook line: Biology Made Fun, Chemistry Made Fun and Earth Science Made Fun — vocabulary internalized through word–picture association.
The SketchEd method
We're selling a system, not just a book. SketchEd is built on word–picture association: students internalize vocabulary by connecting each word to an image they create and use.
- Sketch the Words — students turn each vocabulary term into a picture they draw themselves, so the word and the idea are stored together.
- Crosswords — the vocabulary comes back as a puzzle, and students retrieve each term from its meaning.
- See It — visual pages that show the concept before students are asked to explain it.
- Color & Label — diagrams students color and label, connecting each structure or process to its name.
- Prove It — quick checks that show whether the vocabulary has really been internalized.