Ontario · Grades K–5
Children in Ontario learn under The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Mathematics (2020) and Language (2023), set by the Ontario Ministry of Education. Daily Academy is skills-based rather than built to that document — it is not an approved ON resource — but its 77 tracked skills cover what kindergarten to grade 5 are expected to know, and it reports on each of them separately.
Education in Canada is a provincial responsibility, so there is no national curriculum. Ontario sets its own through the Ontario Ministry of Education, under The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Mathematics (2020) and Language (2023).
Ontario is the only province whose 2020 math curriculum puts financial literacy in the primary grades, which is why coins, change and simple money problems appear in grade 2 rather than later.
Grade 3 · province-wide assessment
Ontario children sit a province-wide assessment of reading, writing and mathematics at the end of grade 3, administered by the Education Quality and Accountability Office. It is not a test to cram for — it samples the same reading comprehension, number sense and problem-solving that grade 3 works on all year. The parts of it children most often find hard are inference in reading and multi-step word problems in math, which are two of the skills tracked separately here.
Curriculum details checked 2026-08-24. Provinces revise their documents on their own schedules — the Ontario Ministry of Education publishes the current version, and it is the authority, not this page.
| It does | It does not |
|---|---|
| Practise 26 skills separately and report on each | Follow the Ontario curriculum document |
| Place your child on a continuous difficulty scale in five minutes | Replace a teacher, a tutor, or a school assessment |
| Tell you in plain sentences what changed and what to do next | Diagnose a learning difficulty |
| End the session after about twenty minutes | Cover any grade outside kindergarten to grade 5 — yet |
If your child has a diagnosed learning difficulty, or is well behind and not catching up, the right next step is the school or a tutor rather than any app — this page sets out how to tell which situation you are in.
Four subjects, 32 math skills tracked separately, and a five-minute intake that places your child rather than assuming their year group.
Not by practising test papers. EQAO grade 3 samples ordinary grade 3 reading and math, and the parts children find hardest are inference — explaining why a character acted — and two-step word problems. Twenty minutes a day on those two skills through the year does more than a month of past papers in the spring.
No — and no honest program should claim to be without provincial approval. Daily Academy is skills-based: it tracks 77 skills that cover what Ontario expects in kindergarten to grade 5 for math and reading, but it is not an approved resource of the Ontario Ministry of Education and is not built to that curriculum document. Use it as practice alongside school, not as a replacement for it.
Private one-to-one tutoring in Canada generally runs about $40–$80 an hour and learning centres about $150–$300 a month per child. Daily Academy's daily mission is free; the parent dashboard is $8.99 a month in Canadian dollars for every child in the home, with a 14-day trial before any card is needed.
That is what it is for. The daily mission is about twenty minutes and ends by itself, which is designed to sit after school without displacing homework, activities or going outside. Missing a day costs nothing but a streak.
The daily mission is free and stays free. The parent dashboard is $8.99 a month in Canadian dollars for every child in the home, after a 14-day trial.