Think beyond numbers.

An online, parent-guided thinking program for Primary 1–6 children. One carefully designed question a day — helping your child fall in love with maths, and build the kind of thinking that lasts beyond the classroom.

A short introduction for parents · MathsKid

What this is not

Not tuition. Not drilling.

Most maths programmes for young children optimise for speed and coverage — more topics, more worksheets, faster answers.

MathsKid does the opposite: one question a day, chosen to be doable for the child's grade but designed to stretch them past what a classroom lesson taught.

Why depth, not speed

Same grade. Very different question.

Typical classroom question

Add 48 and 39.

Then subtract 23 from your answer.

MathsKid · Primary 1

Find the number that is 23 less than the sum of 48 and 39.

A. 41

B. 55

C. 64

D. 70

E. 87

Same numbers, same two operations — but the classroom version tells a child exactly what to do and in what order. The MathsKid question makes the child work that order out for themselves.

The belief behind it

In the age of AI, going deep on fewer ideas matters more than covering many quickly.

A machine can calculate. What a child needs to build is the habit of sitting with a hard question, trying an approach, being wrong, and trying again.

That habit is mathematical thinking — and it's built through depth, not through more worksheets.

How it works

One question, dropped every day.

A new Olympiad-style thinking question posted daily at t.me/mathskid, alongside the previous day's guided solution
Designed to take 5–15 minutes, sized to be attempted by the child, not solved for them
Every solution is a full walkthrough, written for parent and child to work through together — not just an answer to check against
You get to watch your child's own thinking take shape, one question at a time

Sample · from the question bank

What one day's question looks like

P1 · 2 min

Mia is 7 years old. Her father's age is 4 times Mia's age.

What is the sum of Mia's age and her father's age?

A. 28

B. 31

C. 35

D. 42

E. 49

The card carries the question only, never the solution — a child (and parent) gets a real chance to think before the guided solution walks through how it's solved.

The next day

Then the guided solution walks it through

Draw a bar model: 1 unit for Mia's age, and 4 matching units for her father's age (since he is 4 times as old).

Total units = 1 + 4 = 5 units, and each unit is worth Mia's age, 7 years.

Sum of their ages = 5 × 7 = 35

Answer: C

Not just the final number, but the reasoning a parent can walk through with their child.

On frustration

Getting stuck is the point, not the problem.

A child may feel frustrated, confused, or scared to try at first. That's normal — it's what real learning feels like.

We fear the new topic, we don't understand, so we feel frustrated — but the brain is actually exercising. We explore the answer, and when we're wrong, we learn from it.

No matter how long it takes — as long as a child never gives up and keeps trying, one day that piece of knowledge clicks, and it becomes part of them.

Who this is for

You don't need a prodigy.

Child in Primary 1–6
Doing reasonably well in school — not necessarily a maths whiz
Curious enough to spend 5–15 minutes on one challenge a day
Starting young is an advantage, not a requirement to already be advanced — the earlier a child starts, the more time they have to build the habit

What you get

Every day

One new thinking question, matched to your child's grade, posted to t.me/mathskid

Every solution

A guided walkthrough written for parent and child to learn together — not just an answer key

Over time

A child who's built the habit of sitting with a hard problem instead of reaching for a shortcut

As a parent

A front-row seat to how your child actually thinks — where they get stuck, and how they get unstuck

Free, and beyond

The daily question is free. Two packs go deeper.

Daily drop · free

One thinking question and its guided solution, every day, at t.me/mathskid

Competition prep pack

Exam-focused sets targeting a specific contest — SASMO, HAL, NMOS, RMO, APMOPS — for a child preparing to sit that paper

Concept pack

Topic-focused sets that go deep on one technique — age problems, cube nets, whatever a child needs to master — for a child who wants (or needs) more practice in one area than the daily drop alone gives

The daily drop stays free. The packs are for families who want to go further in a specific direction — details on these soon.

Think beyond numbers, one question at a time.

Join the daily question at

t.me/mathskid