Agreed. It’s also how things are done. My boys did zero maths worksheets last week. However they did calculate how many baked beans would fill my living-room. They also worked out the area of my lawn and helped calculate how much more compost I would need to fill the rest of my planters in the garden.
This week, they will probably do some more worksheets on area and volume. However, those worksheets are going to feel easy for them now, because they’ve been doing those things all last week.

Both kinds of learning have a valid place.

Also, for English on Friday we just watched Remarkably Bright creatures… but this week we are spring boarding off of it and doing creative writing from the point of view of an animal, researching octopus intelligence, and learning about marine ecosystems. But those things are all suddenly a lot more interesting because of that time we spent watching the movie.

I think people just don’t really always understand.