Daily Math

Daily Math

10 questions a round. About 3 minutes.

For parents

Answer the math problems that appear on the blackboard. Tap the number keys, then tap “Enter”. That’s all.

The problems you find hard show up more often. Get several right in a row and you win a picture.

A drill for elementary-school arithmetic. A round is 10 questions and takes about 3 minutes. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division — 42 types in all, including problems with a box (□ + 5 = 12).

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Home screen with a big Start button and a 10-day streak chart The play screen: a reward picture drawn on the blackboard next to the answer
The play screen: a problem on the blackboard, with number keys 0-9 and an Enter button below

1Problems appear on the blackboard

Tap the numbers, then tap “Enter”. That’s it. Your answer shows up big at the bottom right of the blackboard.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division — 42 kinds in all. Some problems use a box: □ + 5 = 12.

  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Box problems
A problem answered on the blackboard, with a pink thumbs-up drawn over the answer
Under 4 seconds, so you get a thumbs-up

2Answer fast and you get a better mark

When you get it right on the first try, the mark depends on how fast you were.

  • Thumbs-upUnder 4 seconds
  • Flower circleUnder 10 seconds
  • CircleSlower, but correct
  • Green circleCorrect after a wrong answer

The bar at the top of the blackboard shows how fast you are going. A wrong answer never gets an ✕ — if no mark appears, just think again.

Five correct in a row: a reward picture appears next to the answer
The five dots below count your correct answers in a row

3Five in a row wins a picture

Every 5 correct answers in a row, you win one picture. Your pictures go into the Collection — 58 in all.

Once you have a picture, it stays yours forever.

Collection screen: pink pictures you have won, and question marks for the ones you have not

4Look at your pictures any time

A “?” is a picture you have not won yet. You never know which one is coming until you get it.

The bar at the top shows how many you have collected so far.

Problem picker: a list of types tagged Weak, Normal, Good and New
The ones tagged “Weak” come up more often

5Your weak spots show up more

The app remembers the problems you got wrong or answered slowly, and gives you more of them next time.

Leave it on “Auto” and it picks for you. Want to choose yourself? Use “Choose myself”.

Miss a problem twice and it shows you the answer, then brings that problem back 3 questions later.

A 30-day chart of the days you played, marked “10 day streak”
See how many days you have kept going
Weak spots (42 types): addition, subtraction, multiplication and division shown in shades of green
Dark green means weak; lighter means you are good at it

6Your record stays

How many you answered, how fast you were, and how many you got right — every day is recorded.

Play every day and your “day streak” keeps growing.

Settings screen: how to answer, number of questions, break time, sound and vibration

7Change it to suit you

Answer with the number keys (0-9), or pick from 4 numbers if that is easier. You can also change how many questions come in a round, and turn sound and vibration on or off.

You can turn on “See answer” too. But looking is recorded as a wrong answer, and that problem will come back to you later.

The top bar: a JA / EN switch, “Guest”, and “Sign in with Google”
Before you sign in, you play as “Guest”

8Play right away, no sign-in

No name, no password. Just open it and start.

Sign in with Google and your record is saved, so you can carry on from another device such as a tablet or a computer. Everything you did before signing in comes with you.

Problem picker: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced bands, and types tagged Weak, Normal, Good and New

Weak spots come up more often

The app records which problems were answered wrongly or slowly, and weights the next round towards them. “Auto” is the default, so nothing needs to be chosen. You can also pick types by hand.

The range is split into three bands — Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced — and they do not overlap (choose Advanced and single-digit addition will not appear). Intermediate is the default.

The original app picked at random. Years of per-type results had piled up but were never fed back into what came next. This uses them.

Getting stuck does not end the round

Miss the same problem twice and the app shows the answer, then brings that problem back three questions later, so a child is not left stuck.

“See answer” is recorded as a wrong answer the moment it is used. In the original app, looking at the answer recorded nothing and moved on — skip all 10 and the day’s record stayed empty. Now it is recorded, and the problem comes back.

A wrong answer never shows an “✕”. It is the same glyph as the multiplication sign, and right under the expression it reads as “7 × 8 … × 12”. Instead, no mark appears, with a sound and a vibration.

A 30-day chart of the days played, marked “10 day streak”
Weak spots (42 types): addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in shades of green

See where the weak spots are

Each day’s question count, average time and accuracy are kept. The 30-day chart shows the days kept up. Each of the 42 types is shaded by how weak it is — darker means weaker.

Red and green are not used as a pair. Colour vision differs from person to person, so the scale is shades of a single colour.

No sign-in needed

No name, no password — open it and start. Without signing in, the record is tied to the browser session.

As a guest, the record is lost if the browser’s data (cookies) is cleared. Sign in with Google to keep it. Everything played as a guest carries over to the account, and can be continued on another device.

Note that a guest record is not merged into an account that already has one (there is no right answer to which numbers to keep). One account is one child — for siblings, sign in with separate accounts.

Settings screen: how to answer, number of questions, break time, sound and vibration

Adjust it to your child

  • How to answer: number keys (0-9), or pick from 4 (easier)
  • Questions per round
  • Break after: if one question takes longer than this, a break starts
  • Whether to show “See answer”
  • Sound and vibration

The app itself is available in Japanese and English (the JA / EN switch in its header).

Five correct in a row: a reward picture appears next to the answer

What keeps them going: collecting pictures

Every 5 correct answers in a row wins one hand-drawn picture — 58 in all. Once won, a picture never goes away. (The original faded them out after 40 days; that was dropped — there is no reason to take away what a child has collected.)

The marks work the same way: under 4 seconds gets a thumbs-up, under 10 seconds a flower, slower but correct still gets a circle. Speed only counts on a first-try answer — a correct answer after a miss gets a different-coloured circle, however fast.

More apps from the same team

The sister apps to Daily Math

Daily Kanji

An app for learning to read and write kanji. Just like the math app, the ones you find hard come up more, and a streak of correct answers wins a picture.

A kanji drill built the same way. It covers all 1,026 characters and about 5,750 questions of school years 1–6, in both reading and writing. Weak spots come up more, and no sign-in is needed, the same as this app.

  • Reading
  • Writing

Try kanji too → Open Daily Kanji →

Daily Proverbs

An app for learning what proverbs mean and when to use them. Answer the blackboard by picking one of four cards, and the ones you find hard come up more.

A drill covering 130 Japanese proverbs, asked in three ways — fill in the blank, match a meaning, or match a scene — and answered by picking one of four cards. A round is 10 questions, about three minutes. Weak spots come up more, and no sign-in is needed, the same as this app.

  • Fill the blank
  • Meaning
  • Scene

Try proverbs too → Open Daily Proverbs →

Ready to try? Try a round together

Play now → Open the app →

No name, no password. Open it and start.

This page is part of the development docs. The screens are work in progress and show sample data.