🏔️ Math Mountain · Number
Place value, comparing numbers and estimating sensibly. 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 does the 4 in 438 actually mean?”
Reading 438 correctly without being able to say it is four hundreds. Place value is the foundation regrouping sits on.
5 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 0.5 — mid grade 0
There are 3 cats and 6 dogs.
Are there more cats or more dogs?
Hint shown after a miss: 6 is further along when you count than 3.
Explanation: There are more dogs. 6 is more than 3.
Difficulty 0.8 — mid grade 0
You have 4 red blocks and 4 blue blocks.
Which colour do you have more of?
Hint shown after a miss: Count both piles. What do you notice?
Explanation: They are the same — 4 and 4. Sometimes the answer to "which is more?" is neither, and that is worth saying out loud.
Difficulty 1.4 — mid grade 1
What number is ten and six more?
Hint shown after a miss: Start at 10 and count on six.
Explanation: 10 and 6 more is 16. The 1 in 16 stands for a whole ten, not for one.
Each one is estimated separately, which is what lets the parent dashboard name a specific gap rather than report a subject average.
“What does the 4 in 438 actually mean?” Reading 438 correctly without being able to say it is four hundreds. Place value is the foundation regrouping sits on.
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 number sense 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.