The Explorer Atlas: a game-style map of what your child has learned

Your child now has a map of their own. Every topic is a world, every grade is a continent, and every activity is a country to discover, with stars to earn along the way. Parents get the very same progress as a plain report.

Until now, progress lived in tables and percentages, which suit grown-ups but do little for a seven-year-old. A child does not wake up wanting to improve a score; they want to see what is over the next hill. So we turned the progress page into somewhere worth visiting.

One map, sixteen worlds

Open My Explorer Atlas from the home page or the menu and you see sixteen worlds, one for each maths topic. Fractions is Fractopia, a bakery land. Time is Chronia, full of clock towers. Money is Mintopia, all markets and treasure coins. Shapes live in Geomeria, and problem solving in the detective city of Puzzleton.

Each world has its own colours, its own background pattern, its own scenery and its own mascot, so stepping into a new one really does feel like arriving somewhere else.

 Topic  ->  World        e.g. Fractions  -> Fractopia
 Grade  ->  Continent    e.g. Grade 4    -> Misty Highlands
 Activity -> Country     e.g. one fraction game -> Quartia

Continents and countries

Inside a world, the grades are laid out as continents, always in the same order: Sprout Meadow for the youngest, climbing through Sunny Shore, Whispering Woods, Crystal Canyon and Misty Highlands up to Storm Peaks and the Skybridge Summit. Children who move up a grade keep the same world but reach new ground.

Each activity is a fictional country with its own name and a different mood: dawn, night lanterns, festival, snowfall. Countries you have not visited yet are covered in fog and shown as question marks. Visiting one earns up to three stars: one for trying, two for going well, three for mastering it. Plant a flag on a continent by earning two stars in most of its countries.

A reason to come back

At the top of the map, your child's explorer rank grows with every star, from Trail Starter up to Grand Explorer. A big Next adventure button picks a country they have not visited yet at their own grade, so there is never a blank "what do I do now?" moment. Nothing is locked, nothing is timed, and nothing is ever taken away: the map only celebrates progress.

The grown-up view

In the Parent Area there is now an Explorer's logbook. It shows the same worlds in school-report words: the topic, how many activities your child has explored and mastered, and their average score, with each grade expandable down to individual activities. A star on the map is always a number in the logbook, so what your child proudly shows you and what you read as a parent can never disagree.

Everything is available in English and French, works on phones, and calms its animations for children who prefer reduced motion.

Fractopia, the first finished world

The atlas needs places worth visiting, so we started with one: Fractopia, the fractions world, from the youngest meadow all the way to the summit.

Three new boards replace the old drag-the-card quizzes. On the pizza slicer you cut a pizza or a chocolate bar into equal slices, colour the slices a fraction asks for, or work out what is already coloured. On the fraction wall you fill a row of small bricks until it is exactly as long as another fraction, tap the bigger of two bars, or watch bricks join and come apart to see what adding and taking away really do. On the fraction ruler a little bunny hops to the right spot on a number line, including past one whole.

Every skill from kindergarten to Grade 6 now has one redesigned game built on these boards: sixty-five in all, each with sixteen fresh questions at every level, so the numbers change instead of repeating. Prompts are one short sentence, and a wrong answer gets a friendly hint that says what to look at, such as "That is the part that is NOT coloured". Everything is available in French too. The other fractions activities still work as before while we gather your feedback on this first world.