Subjects, topics and skills now look alike — and have tidier web addresses
The three levels of the Mathematics section used to feel like three different apps. Now the Mathematics card on the home page, each topic card inside a grade, and the topic page itself all show the same little scoreboard: how many skills are passed, how many are still to do, and how many there are in total, with a progress bar underneath.
Topics got a face. Every topic — Numbers, Place value, Fractions, Time, Money and the rest — now has its own colourful banner and a one-line description ("Halves, quarters and other equal parts of a whole."), in English and French. The list of topics has the same search box and All / Passed / Not yet buttons you already knew from inside a topic, so finding "what still needs work in Grade 2" takes one tap. Inside a topic, the title is now a proper card, with a small banner, the description and the scoreboard. The redundant "All topics" button is gone: the menu bar at the top already takes you back.
Addresses that read like a path. A skill's web address now follows how you got there:
| You are on | Address ends with |
|---|---|
| Grade 1 topics | /mathematics/g1 |
| The Numbers topic | /mathematics/g1/numbers |
| One skill | /mathematics/g1/numbers/counting-range |
| That skill's activities | .../counting-range/activities |
| One activity | .../counting-range/activities/count-n-to-n |
Chop off the end of any address and you land on the page above it. Old Mathematics addresses with "syllabus" or "activity" in the middle no longer work, so a bookmark made before today will show the "page not found" screen — go through the grade and topic once and bookmark again.
Pre-K activities start to look like games
We went through every activity with a simple question: does the child do the skill, or just read a sentence and pick a button? "Count in Order" passes; many others did not. Today the first 24 Pre-K and Kindergarten activities were rebuilt around pictures instead of words — flash dots, "which row has more?", "is zero a number?", ordinal positions like "first" and "last" in a queue of animals, solid shapes matched to real objects, ten-frames for the teen numbers, and more.
What changed for a child. Groups of objects are drawn on screen and can be tapped, there is a "same" button when two groups match, and zero is shown as an empty dashed spot you can actually touch. Wrong answers now get a short, kind hint aimed at the usual mistake — for example, a spread-out row only looks bigger — instead of just "try again". Each activity has several levels and plenty of different questions, so a child no longer sees the same one twice in a session. Everything is in English and French together.
Still to come. A few of the nicest touches (a counters row that moves and hides, tracing numerals, drag-to-link for solids) need new play scenes and are planned for the next rounds. The remaining Pre-K activities follow in later batches.