Storekeeper game: run a pretend store with price tags, a parent pays, you give change
Real coins, real change
Off-screenAges 6–11EasyTick off when done
Math · 48 quests · 19 off-screen
Math activities built on real life, not worksheets
The fastest way to make a child care about percentages is to put a price tag on something they want. The math quests do exactly that: is 30% off or $30 off the better deal; how much does each winner get when a creator splits a prize; how many seconds have you been alive. The numbers belong to the child's world, so the question “when will I ever use this?” answers itself.
There's also room for the beautiful, surprising side of math — a sum of money that doubles every day, the Monty Hall puzzle that feels wrong until you play it with cups, a sieve that finds every prime under 100 with just a pencil. When a school topic is set in the parent dashboard, the daily quiz pulls from it, so practice lines up with what's happening in class.
For younger kids (about 6–11)
Shorter, more playful, more hands-on. 8 quests.
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Count the steps from your door to the corner — guess first, then count
Your guess vs your feet
Off-screenAges 6–11EasyTick off when done
Shape hunt: find 5 circles, 5 rectangles and 3 triangles in the house in 5 minutes
Geometry hiding in plain sight
Off-screenAges 6–11EasyTimed
Darts with paper balls: throw at a numbered target, add your score after every round
Math with a throwing arm
Off-screenAges 6–11EasyTick off when done
Coin count: add up the coins in 5 pictures, which pile buys the ice cream?
Allowance math
OnlineAges 6–11EasyAuto-checked quiz
Clock quiz: 5 clocks, what time will it be in 45 minutes?
Never late again
OnlineAges 6–11EasyAuto-checked quiz
Show all 8 quests
Fractions of a pizza: 5 quick questions about sharing slices fairly
Fractions that come with toppings
OnlineAges 6–11EasyAuto-checked quiz
Hopscotch math: chalk a number grid, a parent calls a sum, you jump to the answer
Math you jump on
Off-screenAges 6–11EasyTick off when done
For teens (12–16)
Longer, more open, more grown-up. 6 quests.
Compound interest: $500 at 5% — how long until it doubles?
Money that grows while you sleep
OnlineAges 12–16HardAuto-checked quiz
Trip budget: plan a family day out for $80 — travel, food and one ticket each
You're the one holding the budget
OnlineAges 12–16MediumShort written answer
Phone plan showdown: compare 3 made-up plans and find the cheapest for your use
Don't get ripped off
OnlineAges 12–16MediumAuto-checked quiz
Car costs: work out what a family car really costs per month (fuel, insurance, service)
The numbers behind every trip
OnlineAges 12–16MediumAuto-checked quiz
First paycheck: split a pretend $600 summer wage into rent, food, fun and savings
Budgeting before it matters
OnlineAges 12–16MediumShort written answer
Energy bill detective: read last month's electricity numbers with a parent and find the biggest user
Save money, be right about it
Off-screenAges 12–16MediumShort written answer
Great at any age
Scale the difficulty up or down to suit your child. 34 quests.
A creator gives away $100,000 to 8 winners equally — how much each? Then 2 more join.
Idol/creator framing
OnlineAll agesEasyAuto-checked quiz
Quick quiz: 5 questions on this week's school topic
Short, gamified, instant score
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Split a $60 restaurant bill 4 ways + 10% tip
Real-life money math
OnlineAll agesEasyAuto-checked quiz
Estimate how many seconds you've been alive, then check
Mind-blowing big numbers
OnlineAll agesMediumShort written answer
A $900 phone drops to $720 — what % off?
Shopping math
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Split a pizza fairly: 3 friends, 8 slices, who's owed what?
A fair-share argument, not a fractions worksheet
OnlineAll agesEasyAuto-checked quiz
Show all 34 quests
Ratio raid: mix juice concentrate and water at exactly 1:4 for 5 glasses
Ratios you can actually drink
Off-screenAll agesEasyTick off when done
Measure your room's floor area, then price the flooring
Real renovation budget
Off-screenAll agesMediumShort written answer
Pythagoras in the wild: is that TV really 55"? Measure and check
Catch the marketing out
Off-screenAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Roll 2 dice 30 times — predict the most common total first
Gamble, then check yourself
Off-screenAll agesMediumTick off when done
Monty Hall: play it 10 times with cups, then explain the switch
The answer feels wrong until you play it
Off-screenAll agesHardShort written answer
Mean vs median: your last 10 game scores — which tells the truer story?
Statistics using your own data
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Fermi estimate: how many soccer balls fit in your living room?
A wild guess you have to defend
OnlineAll agesMediumShort written answer
Scale a recipe: convert cups to ounces and feed 6 instead of 4
Cook it afterwards
OnlineAll agesMediumShort written answer
$1 doubling daily vs $100 a day — which wins, and when?
The classic that breaks everyone's intuition
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Chart a video's views doubling daily for 10 days — linear or curved?
Watch a number explode
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Binary: write your age, your birthday and your name-length in base 2
Speak computer
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Sieve of Eratosthenes: find every prime under 100 on paper
Ancient algorithm, your pencil
Off-screenAll agesMediumTick off when done
Track a made-up bank account through 10 moves, including overdrawn
Going negative, safely
OnlineAll agesEasyAuto-checked quiz
Speed-distance-time: how long to walk to school at 3 mph?
Your own commute, mathed
OnlineAll agesEasyAuto-checked quiz
Map scale: measure a route on a map, convert it to real miles
Treasure-map math
Off-screenAll agesMediumShort written answer
Mental math speed run: 20 questions, beat your own clock
Race yourself, not a classmate
OnlineAll agesEasyTimed
Solve for x: 5 equations dressed up as a mystery
Algebra as detective work
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Protractor safari: find 5 angles around the house, estimate then measure
Hunt, don't calculate
Off-screenAll agesEasyTick off when done
Which is the better deal: 30% off, or $30 off?
Shop smarter than the sign
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Kickoff is 3 PM in London — what time do you turn the TV on?
Never miss the match
OnlineAll agesEasyAuto-checked quiz
License-plate math: add the digits on the next 5 cars you see — who gets the biggest?
Mental math at traffic speed
Off-screenAll agesEasyTick off when done
Bake-off math: double a cake recipe with a parent and bake it together
Get the math wrong and you'll taste it
Off-screenAll agesMediumTick off when done
Savings goal: pick something you want, work out how many weeks of saving it takes
A real goal, a real date
OnlineAll agesMediumShort written answer
Graph the family: survey everyone's favorite fruit and draw a bar chart
Data with your own family
Off-screenAll agesEasyTick off when done
Paper airplane stats: throw 5 times, find the mean and the best distance
Statistics that fly
Off-screenAll agesMediumShort written answer
Arrival guess: everyone guesses the minutes to arrival, closest picks the next song
Make the "are we there yet?" a game
Off-screenAll agesEasyTick off when done
Discount detective: 5 store deals, which saves the most?
Beat the price tags
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
Data from your sport: work out averages from a made-up season table
Be the team analyst
OnlineAll agesMediumAuto-checked quiz
At home
How to run math quests at home
You don't need the app to use these. A few habits make them work much better.
- Use real objects when the quest is offline: actual dice, actual cups, an actual tape measure on the actual living room floor.
- Ask for an estimate before the calculation. Guessing first makes the real answer more interesting, and builds number sense.
- Let them use a calculator for the arithmetic when the point of the task is the reasoning, not the long division.
- If a quest involves money, use your own currency and prices. The examples use dollars; swap in your own currency.
How Tandomo uses these
The quests above are templates, not a fixed list. Each morning the app writes a new set for each child, adapting ideas like these to their age, their interests and anything you've asked it to focus on — so a pizza-sharing problem might become a pizza-sharing problem about their soccer team. Math usually appears as one or two quests in a mixed set of 7–10, alongside other subjects and plenty of off-screen time. Your feedback on the parent dashboard steers what comes next (more in the FAQ).
Math activities: common questions
Does it follow the school curriculum?
Not as a curriculum, but you can tell it the current school topic and the quick quizzes will practice it. The rest of the math quests are real-life problems chosen for the child's age.
My child is behind in math. Will these make it worse?
The difficulty is set per child and adjusted from your feedback, so a struggling kid gets more of the easier, confidence-building quests. Short and regular tends to help more than long and rare.
Are the quiz answers checked automatically?
Yes. Quiz-style quests are marked instantly in the app, and you can see the results on the parent dashboard.
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