Tallytide

Maths your child learns by teaching it back

Meet Gloop: a very confident blob who gets maths wrong. Your child spots his mistakes, fixes his answers and explains why. A free maths app for ages 6 to 12, built around Singapore maths.

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Works on iPad, iPhone, Android and computers. No sign-up, no ads.

Gloop says one half of 6 is 12 and asks: am I right? The child taps He's right or He's wrong.

Why children keep coming back

Explaining a mistake is one of the best ways to understand maths. Tallytide turns that into a game.

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Teach Gloop

Gloop answers with total confidence, and often wrongly. Your child decides if he's right, gives the real answer, and picks the reason he slipped.

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Bar models, step by step

Word problems the Singapore way: draw the model, find 1 unit, then answer. Every step is checked, with a clear worked solution.

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An island adventure

Sail from Counting Beach to Before-and-After Cove. Each island ends with a Big Quiz, a medal and a souvenir for Gloop.

A look inside

Short lessons, big friendly buttons, and help from Professor Pickle when your child is stuck.

A Teach Gloop question
Is Gloop right?
A bar model with units and a question mark
Draw the bar model
A learn-it-first card before a lesson
Learn it first
An island map with chapters as stepping stones
Chapters on each island

What it covers

Two worlds and 11 islands. A short warm-up quiz finds the right starting point, so older children don't start at 1 + 1.

World 1: The Tally Isles

Numbers, measures and shapes, one topic at a time.

  • Adding and taking away
  • Numbers to 1000
  • Times tables
  • Dividing
  • Fractions
  • Decimals
  • Percentages
  • Telling the time
  • Measures
  • Perimeter and area
  • Volume
  • Order of operations
  • Algebra
  • Ratio and rate
  • Pie charts
  • Angles
  • Triangles and four-sided shapes
  • Circles

World 2: The Story Seas

Word problems, solved with the methods Singapore schools teach.

  • Bar models
  • More and less
  • Times as many
  • Fraction bars
  • Before and after
  • Give and take
  • Same gap (ages)
  • Equal bars

For grown-ups

  • Free while we build it with families like yours.
  • No ads, no tracking, no accounts. Progress stays on your device. Privacy
  • A grown-up code guards progress reports and settings.
  • Reviews welcome. Send one from the Grown-ups area. We read every one.

Put it on your Home Screen

  1. Open Tallytide on your child's iPad, iPhone or Android.
  2. iPad or iPhone: tap Share, then “Add to Home Screen”. Android: tap ⋮, then “Add to Home screen”.
  3. Open it from the new Gloop icon. It runs full screen and keeps progress safe.

Ready to meet Gloop?

It takes a minute to set up. Your child does the rest.

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