Canada · Grades K–5
Canada has no national curriculum — each province and territory writes its own, so what a child is expected to know depends on where they go to school. These pages set out what each province expects, what tutoring actually costs here, and where twenty minutes a day of skills practice fits alongside it. Daily Academy covers kindergarten to grade 5 today.
| Option | Typical cost | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Private tutor, one-to-one | $40–$80/hour | A diagnosed difficulty, or a gap that needs an adult watching the child work |
| Learning centre | $150–$300/month per child | Families who want a fixed schedule enforced by someone else |
| Online learning program | $10–$30/month | Daily practice, and finding a gap before it becomes a tutoring problem |
| Daily Academy | Free, or $8.99/month per family | The daily mission free forever; the parent dashboard covers every child in the home |
Ranges are approximate and vary by city — expect the upper end in Toronto and Vancouver. Learning-centre pricing is generally per child, which is what makes a second child expensive. Daily Academy’s family subscription is one price however many children you have, after a 14-day trial with no card.
Daily Academy is being built for K–12 and covers kindergarten to grade 5 today, in English, in four subjects. It is not an approved provincial resource anywhere, and it does not diagnose learning difficulties. What it does is estimate mastery for 77 skills separately and tell a parent, in sentences, which one is actually the problem — which is the question a report card average is least able to answer. The curriculum page maps the whole K–12 arc and marks what is covered so far.
Private one-to-one tutoring generally runs about $40–$80 an hour in Canada, and franchised learning centres about $150–$300 a month per child. Online learning programs sit far below both, typically $10–$30 a month, and some — Khan Academy among them — are free.
No. Canada has no national curriculum; each province and territory writes its own. In the early grades the underlying math and reading expectations are very similar across the country — what differs most is how the curriculum is organised and worded, when a few topics are introduced, and which grades are assessed province-wide.
No, and it does not claim to be in any province. It is skills-based: it tracks 77 skills covering what every Canadian province expects in kindergarten to grade 5 for math and reading. Use it as practice alongside school rather than as a curriculum replacement.
Not currently. Daily Academy is English only, which makes it a poor fit for French-immersion practice or for francophone programmes in Quebec, New Brunswick and elsewhere.
A five-minute intake, then twenty minutes a day. Free to start, in Canadian dollars if you ever upgrade, and no card until you do.