🏔️ Math Mountain · Application
Reading clocks, elapsed time, coins and making change. 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.
“It’s 2:40. What time is it in 35 minutes?”
Reading a clock face fine and stalling on elapsed time. They are different skills and the second one is the useful one.
3 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 1.8 — mid grade 1
A nickel is worth 5 cents.
How many cents are three nickels worth?
Hint shown after a miss: Count in fives: five, ten, …
Explanation: Three nickels are 15 cents. Counting in fives is the fastest way, and it is the same skip-counting used for the five times table.
Difficulty 1.8 — mid grade 1
Which of these makes exactly 25 cents?
Hint shown after a miss: A dime is 10 cents and a nickel is 5 cents. Add each set up.
Explanation: Two dimes and a nickel make 25 cents. The others make 30, 30 and 35 — every one of them too much, which is the mistake to watch for at a till.
Difficulty 1.8 — mid grade 1
A sticker costs 30 cents.
You pay with two quarters. How many cents do you get back?
Hint shown after a miss: Two quarters is 50 cents. How far is 50 from 30?
Explanation: 50 − 30 = 20 cents back. Change is a subtraction, but shopkeepers usually count up from the price instead, which gives the same answer.
Each one is estimated separately, which is what lets the parent dashboard name a specific gap rather than report a subject average.
“It’s 2:40. What time is it in 35 minutes?” Reading a clock face fine and stalling on elapsed time. They are different skills and the second one is the useful one.
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 time & money 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.