Maths, one landed trick at a time
A maths skill is a spot on the path. Four questions, a check, and the trick lands — or it does not, and the same skill comes round again tomorrow.
What a maths spot actually is
Every spot on the path is one skill and one skill only: read numbers to 1000, add two-digit numbers across ten, tell the time to five minutes. Your child answers four questions on it, each one four tiles to tap. Nothing is typed, nothing is timed, and a wrong tap costs nothing but another go.
The questions are not a list someone wrote once. Each one is drawn from a template with fresh numbers, so coming back to a skill means different sums, and the app works the answer out in code rather than looking it up — which is why a distractor can never accidentally be right.
The skills, unit by unit
In the United States, Grade 2, maths is 23 skills in five units, in the order Common Core puts them.
- ① Adding and taking away to 20The number bonds that have to become automatic, crossing ten in both directions.
- ② Tens, hundreds and onesReading, writing and comparing numbers; hundreds, tens and ones; counting in twos, fives and tens.
- ③ Adding and subtracting within 100Two-digit work with and without regrouping, and the word problems that hide it.
- ④ Money, time, shapes and partsCoins and totals, telling the time to five minutes, measuring, equal groups, and naming shapes by their sides and corners.
If your child is not in the United States
Number work at four to nine is very nearly the same everywhere: count, place value, add and subtract across ten, time, money. So a child in Lisbon or Stockholm can ride this maths path today, and the app tells them whose curriculum it is instead of pretending it is theirs.
The maths for England, Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands is in the app, across the four-to-nine band — pick the country and the year labels are your own.
Ten minutes of maths. Then the trick.
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