About Brick Buddies
Australian Grades 1–6 number practice, one question and one building step at a time.
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Practice a little, often
Brick Buddies is a maths practice app for children working on number skills in Australian Grades 1–6. It uses colourful blocks, repeated practice with different numbers, and Australian landmarks that are built as questions are completed.
Practice is the default activity. It mixes familiar skills with skills that need more practice, revisits them on later days and adjusts difficulty within the chosen grade. You can also select a single activity or Mix it up.
What children can do
- Practice counting and place value, addition, subtraction, number bonds, patterns, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals and percentages as available in their grade.
- Answer using choices where enabled, an on-screen number pad or a physical keyboard.
- Use optional working boxes for larger calculations. Children enter their own carrying, regrouping and quotient digits; the working is not filled in for them.
- Choose between grouping and short division where available. Each has its own screen.
- Earn a landmark building step for a completed question, including after correcting a mistake. Each landmark takes 80 steps.
- Hints are currently unavailable.
For grown-ups
Use Grown-ups to adjust practice, add children, view progress and read information by grade. Progress distinguishes independent written answers, answers with choices and corrected answers. Earlier hint use remains in saved progress.
Names or nicknames and emoji icons help families switch between children. The website uses a grown-up family account to save progress across devices, with automatic database backups. The native iPhone build keeps separate local saves. There is no public leaderboard, messaging or in-app advertising.
Scope and availability
This app provides selected number practice, not a complete Australian Curriculum course, school assessment or guarantee of learning outcomes. Teachers and schools may teach different methods and sequences.
The public website works in a supported browser and can be added to an iPhone Home Screen. The website needs an internet connection to load; a Home Screen shortcut does not guarantee offline access. A separately installed native iPhone build stores its own data and includes practice for offline use. There is no public App Store download linked here.
Information for search engines and AI tools
Public information about the app is available as readable pages and plain-text summaries. These files describe the app; they do not provide access to a child’s profile, answers or saved progress.
Operator and contact
Brick Buddies