🏔️ Math Mountain · Number
Adding numbers, including carrying across tens and hundreds. Daily Academy tracks it as its own skill, separately from the 9 others in math mountain, so it can never be averaged away by a subject score.
“What’s 8 + 6?” — listen for a retrieved answer, not a count.
Counting up on fingers past grade 2. The facts have not automated, and every later step is paying for it.
7 activities currently target this skill. These are actual questions, shown at the difficulty they are served at, with the explanation a child sees after answering.
Difficulty 0.9 — mid grade 0
Which one makes 5?
Hint shown after a miss: Work each one out on your fingers.
Explanation: 4 + 1 = 5. The others make 2, 4 and 6.
Difficulty 1.3 — mid grade 1
Which pair adds up to exactly 10?
Hint shown after a miss: Check each one. Two of them fall just short of ten.
Explanation: 7 + 3 = 10. The others land on 9, 9 and 11 — close, which is exactly why these are worth knowing by heart rather than working out.
Difficulty 1.3 — mid grade 1
9 + 1 + 5 = ?
Hint shown after a miss: Two of these are partners. Add them first, then the rest is easy.
Explanation: 9 + 1 makes 10, and 10 + 5 = 15. Looking for the partners first turns a three-number sum into a one-step one.
Each one is estimated separately, which is what lets the parent dashboard name a specific gap rather than report a subject average.
“What’s 8 + 6?” — listen for a retrieved answer, not a count. Counting up on fingers past grade 2. The facts have not automated, and every later step is paying for it.
It appears in both. Daily Academy does not gate skills by year group — a child is placed on a continuous difficulty scale during a five-minute intake, and addition is then served at whatever level they are actually at, adjusted separately from every other skill.
A five-minute intake places them on a continuous scale, and the skill map shows every skill separately from the first week. The daily mission is free.