🏔️ Math Mountain · Number
Parts of a whole, comparing fractions and simple equivalence. 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.
“Which is bigger, 3/8 or 5/8 — and how do you know?”
Fractions handled as shaded boxes rather than as quantities. Shading is not comparing.
6 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 2.4 — mid grade 2
A pizza is cut into 8 slices. You eat 3. How many slices are left?
Explanation: 8 − 3 = 5 slices left, which is 5/8 of the pizza.
Difficulty 3.3 — mid grade 3
Which of these is closest to 1 whole?
Explanation: 5/6 needs only one more sixth to be whole. The others are all much further away.
Difficulty 3.3 — mid grade 3
Order these from smallest to largest.
Explanation: With the same bottom number, just compare the top: 1/4, 2/4 (= 1/2), 3/4.
Each one is estimated separately, which is what lets the parent dashboard name a specific gap rather than report a subject average.
“Which is bigger, 3/8 or 5/8 — and how do you know?” Fractions handled as shaded boxes rather than as quantities. Shading is not comparing.
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 fractions 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.