Maths · Primary
Helping your child with primary school maths
Place value, times tables, fractions, measurement and word problems: the key primary topics explained simply, with an AI tutor that adapts to your child's age.
At primary level, nearly every maths difficulty traces back to one thing: a basic idea that stayed fuzzy and now makes everything built on top of it collapse. Finding which one, and going back over it calmly, is usually enough to unblock the situation.
What your child works on
- Count, compare and order numbers while understanding what each digit is worth depending on its position.
- Set out and complete the four operations, then get faster through mental maths and times tables.
- Understand fractions and decimals starting from shared objects, before handling the written notation.
- Measure and convert lengths, masses and durations, and recognise basic shapes and solids.
- Read a word problem, identify what is actually being asked, and solve it in several steps without losing the thread.
How Twinko helps with this subject
A tutor that asks instead of answering
Prof Twinko releases help in stages: a nudge, then a lead, then the method. The full solution only comes as a last resort.
Lessons generated on the exact topic
You say what is not working, the age band and the difficulty. The lesson and its exercises are written for that request — not pulled from a catalogue.
XP that leads to a real reward
Every completed lesson earns XP, redeemable against the reward you set yourself. That is what brings the child back the next day.
Frequently asked questions
My child cannot remember the times tables. What works?
Tables stick through short, frequent repetition, not through reciting a whole table. Two or three minutes of mixed questions every day beats half an hour on Sunday by a wide margin. Twinko's daily missions are built on exactly that principle.
He can calculate but fails every word problem. Is that normal?
Very common: the blockage is in the reading, not the arithmetic. Have him restate the problem in his own words and say what is being looked for before writing a single operation. Twinko's tutor works that way — by asking questions rather than giving the solution.
At what age can fractions be introduced?
From about age 8 with concrete objects — a shared pizza, a chocolate bar — well before written notation and common denominators. Twinko automatically pitches the vocabulary and examples at your child's age band.
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