Ages 4 to 9 — and which years are ready
The band is four to nine. What is inside it depends on the country, and it would be easy to leave that vague, so here it is plainly.
What each country has today
In England, every year from Reception to Year 4 is in the app, maths and reading, in each year's own order. In Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands the maths path covers the same four-to-nine band, year by year, under your country's own labels. In the United States, Grade 2 is complete — 23 maths skills and 14 reading skills from Common Core, question for question.
Year labels differ and the ages do not, which is where most of the confusion lives. Grade 2 in the United States is Year 3 in England, the 2. Klasse in Germany, CE1 in France, 2.º de Primaria in Spain, groep 4 in the Netherlands, årskurs 2 in Sweden and the 2.º ano in Portugal. Same children, seven going on eight.
What your child gets, country by country
The app never invents a year it does not have. Where a year is missing, the nearest maths it does have stands in, and it says so on the screen that starts the path.
- ✓ EnglandTheir own year, Reception to Year 4, maths and reading, nothing standing in.
- ✓ Germany, France, Spain, the NetherlandsTheir own year in maths, across the whole band. Reading is English, so there is no reading path here.
- → The United StatesGrade 2 — roughly seven to eight — is complete, maths and reading. A younger or older child rides the nearest maths year, and the screen that starts the path says so.
- ✕ Reading outside England and US Grade 2There is no reading path for a year we have not built. It is simply not offered, rather than filled with the wrong words.
What does not change with age
Ollie reads every question out loud at every age, so nothing depends on your child being able to read the screen. Four tiles, nothing typed, no clock running.
Ten minutes is a session and the app ends it rather than stretching it. The grown-up half sits behind four digits, and a child cannot get out of their half of the app — no ads, no links, nothing to buy.
See which years are ready.
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