How it works
About five minutes, most days.
A short, spoken routine that fits around homework and dinner. Here’s what a session looks like, and what happens behind it.
A parent sets up the family.
Sign in with a code sent to your email. There are no passwords. Confirm you’re the parent or guardian, read how children’s information is handled, and give consent. Then add each child with a nickname and a simple picture. Never a real name.
Your child starts the daily mix.
Each session is about five minutes. It mixes facts your child already knows with a few that still need work, and brings in a handful of new ones at a time.
The app asks. Your child answers.
The question is read aloud and your child says the answer, or types it. They can pause, hear the question again, say “I don’t know”, or switch to typing at any time.
Missed facts get another visit.
When an answer isn’t right, the app shows the correct one and asks your child to say the whole fact back. Facts that need another visit come back sooner. Facts your child knows cold come back less often.
You see what’s sticking.
In the parent space you can see, for each child, which facts are fluent, which are still being practiced, and which days they practiced.
When the app doesn’t hear clearly
If it can’t make out an answer, it says so and asks again instead of guessing. Speech recognition can still mishear sometimes, especially with younger voices, so typing is always one tap away.
Spoken answers are recognized by your child’s phone, tablet or browser. We receive only the words recognized for the answer and never receive recordings. How voice works.
What “fluent” means here
A fact counts as fluent when your child’s two most recent answers to it were correct, each came within about three seconds, and they happened on two different days.
That’s our working definition, not a research standard or a formal assessment. Answer times are measured quietly in the background. There are no countdown clocks and no leaderboards.
Hank · Aithnography
Seven times eight?“Fifty-six.”
Video coming soon
See a session
What a few minutes of spoken practice looks like
Hank walks through one short session: a correct answer, a retry, the not-heard state and the typing fallback.
Video coming soon. Until it’s recorded, you can read Hank’s draft script below.
Read the draft script
Draft script. The recorded video may differ, and will come with its own transcript.
Let me show you what a short practice session looks like.
The parent sets up the family account. The child chooses their nickname profile, and starts the daily mix.
Here’s a question: seven times eight. The child says “fifty-six,” and the answer appears right on the card.
If a fact needs another try, we give the correct answer and another chance to practice. If the app doesn’t hear clearly, that’s a different situation: it asks again. A recognition problem shouldn’t become a wrong math answer.
You can pause, hear the question again, or switch to typing. The aim is a short routine that fits into family life.
At the end, the child sees what they practiced. The parent can see how that routine is developing over time.
Try the practice preview and see how it feels.
Why it’s built this way
The research behind the routine.
Short is not a compromise.
The fact-practice routines in school studies and practice guides are brief, often a few minutes inside a longer lesson.
Spreading practice out tends to beat cramming.
In small studies of third graders practicing facts, the same amount of practice split across the school day led to faster fluency growth than doing it all at once. Broader memory research points the same way.
Answering from memory, with the answer shown when it’s missed.
Practice that asks you to recall, rather than look at the answer, is widely supported in learning research. Showing the correct answer after a miss is part of that.
“About five minutes” is a design choice that fits these brief formats. No study has shown that a particular number of minutes at home is enough. The fact-practice spacing studies spread practice within one school day, not across days. And Math on Cue’s own results haven’t been measured yet.
See how it fits your family’s week.
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