🏔️ Math Mountain · Application
Turning a story into the right calculation, then back into an answer. 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.
Read a problem aloud, then: “what is it asking you to find?” — before any calculating.
High accuracy on bare calculations, sharp drop inside a story. That is a reading gap, not a math gap.
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 3.0 — mid grade 3
The baker made 45 pies. She sold 28 and burnt 3. How many good pies are left?
Hint shown after a miss: Two things left the shelf: the sold ones and the burnt ones.
Explanation: 45 − 28 = 17, then 17 − 3 = 14 good pies.
Difficulty 3.0 — mid grade 3
Each tray holds 6 muffins. She fills 7 trays. How many muffins?
Explanation: 7 × 6 = 42 muffins.
Difficulty 3.0 — mid grade 3
A cake costs $12. The baker sells 5 cakes. How much money did she take?
Explanation: 12 × 5 = 60, so $60.
Each one is estimated separately, which is what lets the parent dashboard name a specific gap rather than report a subject average.
Read a problem aloud, then: “what is it asking you to find?” — before any calculating. High accuracy on bare calculations, sharp drop inside a story. That is a reading gap, not a math gap.
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 word problems 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.