About Brick Buddies
Australian Grades 1–6 number practice, one question and one building step at a time.
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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.
Children start with easy practice. Choose Level up at any time from the top of the activity menu, including after completing or skipping an attempt. Unfinished attempts can be resumed, and Grade 6 is the top grade. This optional activity starts gently at the child’s current grade, then adjusts after each response. Completing Level up moves them up at most one grade, only after strong first-answer accuracy across several skills at the next grade, including harder questions. Children can choose “I don’t know” to move on or skip Level up. The saved grade stays the same unless their Level up answers show they are ready to move up one. Practice then uses saved answers to revisit topics after increasing intervals, return to topics that needed help, introduce new topics and adjust difficulty. Children move to the next grade after showing independence across every topic over several days. A single activity or an unplanned mix can also be selected.
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 in the way each question asks: enter a number, choose an answer, order values, build a model, shade parts or place a point on a number line. Number-entry tasks support an on-screen pad and 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. The first landmark takes 10 steps; each later landmark takes five more.
- Tap Help to show or hide a strategy hint. Essential question pictures stay visible, and using Help is recorded in practice activity.
For grown-ups
Use Grown-ups to manage children, grades and settings. Activity shows recent practice days, completed questions, topics and builds, and can download a CSV of Level up and practice questions, answer counts and first-answer time. Subscription settings shows access and billing.
Names or nicknames and emoji icons help families switch between children. The website uses a grown-up family account to save profiles and landmarks 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
Kingfisher Systems Pty Ltd trading as Brick Buddies