Kani Math is mental-arithmetic practice your child will open on their own — and a parent view that tells you, in about ten seconds, whether this week went anywhere.
No card to start. The placement check needs no account at all.
Nobody is asking you to teach abacus. You just get enough visibility to ask the right question at dinner.
Open the parent view and the week is right there: how many minutes a day, which days got skipped, how long the streak is, and what they worked on most recently. No digging.
A score tells you nothing you can act on. The dashboard breaks practice down by accuracy and by level of the ladder, so “she is bad at maths” turns into “she is still building Elementary B, the big friends”.
The hard part of daily practice is not the maths, it is the second day. Kani Math is built as a game economy — coins, badges, boss battles, matches against friends — so the streak survives without you standing over it.
This is the part nobody warns you about, and it arrives sooner than you would expect.
In the first months you can check everything — the sum is on the page and so is the answer. A year in, they are holding a four-row addition in their head and writing down a single number. There is no working to mark, the answers come faster than you can verify them, and “did you actually get that right?” becomes a question neither of you can settle.
You never have to do the arithmetic yourself. Each question is scored as it is answered, and what reaches you is the part you can act on: accuracy and which way it is trending, which skills are solid, and which level keeps slipping. Thirty answers are checked before the tablet is closed.
It is also why a weak spot arrives already named — the level that keeps slipping — instead of “he is just being careless”.
The app and the parent view speak 45 languages, with right-to-left Arabic, Urdu, Persian and Central Kurdish built in rather than bolted on. Number narration is English everywhere — one voice set, deliberately.
Runs in the browser on a laptop or desktop, and as a native app on Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad.
The free placement check takes about 5 to 10 minutes, needs no account, and puts your child on the correct rung of the nine-level ladder instead of guessing from their age.
A daily practice allowance, the placement check and the virtual abacus cost nothing. A subscription lifts the daily caps and adds the parent dashboard and up to eight profiles per device.
With Premium, up to eight profiles on one device, each with their own level, streak and coins, so siblings pass the same tablet around without treading on each other’s progress. The free plan holds one profile per device.
No advertising anywhere in the app, and no ad profiles built against what your child does. We ask for a nickname, an age, an avatar and a language — not a school, an address or a photo.
Set up a profile in under a minute and run the placement check. With Premium, the parent dashboard shows the first session before bedtime.
Open Kani Math free →No card required to start, and the free tier does not expire. It caps daily practice and new level cards, holds one profile per device, and keeps the parent dashboard for Premium.
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