Never humiliated, never bored
Seven or eight questions in ten go right. That’s deliberate: it’s where learning happens.
For families
Help at home, without doing their homework for them.
Workings gives your child twenty minutes of maths a day that’s pitched just for them, and never hands over the answer. You get a straight answer to “how are they going?” without sitting over their shoulder.
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Jarrah · Year 4
This week
Jarrah unlocked Stage 2 subtraction. Those “how many more” questions are getting easier.
- Representing numbers✓ Mastered · 92%
- Additive relations✓ Mastered · 88%
- Multiplicative relationsIn practice · 74%
- FractionsIn practice · 31%
- Geometric measureNot yet unlocked
For your child
Work that’s always just hard enough.
No clock, no warnings
No timers, no “this one is hard”, and no streak to lose. Nothing manufactures dread.
Questions about their world
Footy, horses, drawing, fishing. Your child picks their interests, and the questions use them.
Nobody hands them the answer
A smaller question, then a smaller one, until they can take the last step themselves.
No ceiling
Ahead in multiplication and consolidating in fractions? Workings simply lets them.
Skills named for children
“Faces, edges and corners”, not “Year 1 three-dimensional spatial structure”. No skill name your child sees mentions a year.
Guess first
Sometimes Pip asks for an estimate before they work it out (more or less than 30?) and says how it went, warmly either way. A guess never counts.
A harder one, if they want it
After three clean solves in a row, Marlow may offer a harder question. Yes and no are both fine answers.
It ends well
The last question of every session is one they’ll get right, and Gus says what they did.
For you
Know where they are, and whether it’s moving.
Your parent view starts with what moved this week, then shows where your child sits against state and national benchmarks for their year, strand by strand.
- A mastery map across strands and stages, with what’s coming back for review.
- Reading in maths shown as a strengths-framed trend, never a level or a label.
- Language that says “next” and “frontier”, never “behind”.
- This week’s questions, so you can flag one that looks wrong, but never your child’s answers or whether they got them right. Children practise differently when every wrong answer is watched.
Tailor it
Tell Workings how your child learns best.
You don’t need to know the maths to help. Add tips and Workings changes the questions, within limits that keep the mastery bar where it belongs.
- “She understands better with pictures”: more picture questions.
- Interests and context notes, like “knows AFL scoring well”.
- A daily budget from 10 to 30 minutes.
A message from an athlete
Now and then, after a week of practice, a message from an athlete turns up, matched to your child’s interests and never seen twice. Written by people, never generated, and about the training, never the talent.
Safe by design
No open chat. Anything a child types is screened for safety first. Children’s data stays in Sydney.
Answers you can trust
Every answer is computed by code, so your child is never marked wrong for a right answer by an AI’s mistake.
Pricing
14 days free, then per child.
Monthly or yearly, cancel any time. A card is needed at sign-up and nothing is charged until the trial ends.
Families
Per child. Monthly or yearly.
A$20 / child / month
A$200 / child / year
Australian dollars, GST inclusive. Yearly works out to two months free.
- 14-day free trial when we launch. Nothing is charged until the trial ends.
- Cancel any time from your billing page.
- About 20 minutes of practice a day, with no clock on screen.
- Your child’s mastery by strand, against state and national benchmarks.
- Tips and interests that tailor your child’s questions.
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Schools
Seat licences, per school year.
By enquiry
Priced for your school’s sector and seat count. Get in touch for a quote or a pilot.
- A seat is only taken once a family’s consent is recorded.
- Going over your seat count never locks a child out mid-term.
- Teacher, AEO and school administrator views.
- Rostering by CSV, class set-up and end-of-year rollover.
- Parental consent requests sent and tracked for you.
Questions
What parents ask.
Will Workings ever just tell my child the answer?
No. Not in any mode, not after any number of tries. When a child is stuck, the cast scaffolds: a question aimed at the mistake, a hint, help with the reading, or a smaller question from the skill underneath. The child always takes the last step.
If they walk away, the question closes without the answer and its maths comes back another day in a new form.
How is Workings different from other maths apps?
It holds a handful of rules most practice tools don’t. When a child is stuck, many apps show the answer or a worked solution; Workings gives a smaller question, and the child takes the last step. Difficulty is set per child and per strand, at a 70–85% chance of success, rather than by year level. A wrong word problem is attributed to reading or to maths, not simply counted as a maths error.
Every answer is computed by code, not by the AI that wrote the question. There are no timers, speed rounds, streaks to lose or leaderboards. And the identical question never comes back twice: the maths returns in new forms.
How long does practice take?
About 20 minutes a day, and a parent can set anywhere from 10 to 30. Your child never sees a clock, a countdown or a count of questions left. The session ends on a question they get right, with Gus naming something specific they did.
How does the free trial work?
Every family starts with 14 days free. You add a card at sign-up and nothing is charged until the trial ends. Pricing is per child, monthly or yearly, and you can cancel any time from your billing page, which is handled on Stripe’s secure pages.
Which year levels and curriculum does it cover?
Kindergarten to Year 10, on the NSW and Australian Curriculum focus areas for those years, with every question approved by our curriculum lead. We’re starting with the years where number sense is built and where misconceptions most often take hold. A child isn’t capped at their school year: they can be ahead in one strand and consolidating in another.
Is there AI in Workings?
Yes, in narrow and checked roles. A language model drafts question wording ahead of time, into a bank that is checked by software and approved by a person before any child sees it. No model writes a question while your child waits.
Models also screen anything a child types for safety, and read a question aloud when a child presses the speaker. Some help is written live, about the question in front of your child only, and software checks every reply before they see it: never the answer, only the question’s own numbers. In a trial a parent switches on, a child can talk with Pip about the question in front of them, and nothing else.
The AI writes words. It never decides what the right answer is: every answer is computed by code, and the answer never even reaches your child’s browser. A child’s name, email and school are never sent to a model.
Where is my child’s data kept?
In Australia, in Sydney. We hold a child’s name, an email for sign-in, their year and their learning record, never photos, location or voice. Read our privacy policy.
Does it suit neurodivergent children?
Workings is not a clinical product and doesn’t diagnose or treat anything. What we can say is narrower: the things most likely to derail a session (timers, speed scores, streaks you can lose, leaderboards and sudden jumps in difficulty) aren’t in it, by design rather than as settings.
Start where your child is.
Fourteen days free. Twenty minutes a day. Every question pitched for your child, and the last step always theirs.
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