Module · 11 lessons · 4 units
Thinking
Patterns, sorting and robot steps
Patterns, sorting, ordering and giving a robot its instructions. These are the habits behind both maths and reading: notice what repeats, group what belongs together, say what comes first, and plan a few steps ahead. Each age band has its own units below, and new units are added every week.
What your child learns
By the end of this world
- Continues a pattern and spots the odd one out.
- Sorts cards into groups and puts a morning in order: sun, breakfast, book, bus.
- Plans three to five arrow steps to get Masti to the star, and fixes the plan when it does not work.
Explorer · ages 3 to 5 · 2 lessons in 1 unit
Unit 1
Match and same
- Find the same picture
- Same colour
Builder · ages 5 to 7 · 9 lessons in 3 units
Unit 1
Patterns and sorting
- What comes next?
- Count by twos
- Odd one out
- Sort it out
Unit 2
Robot steps
- Move the robot
- Turn the corner
- First, next, last
- Longer paths
Unit 3
Patterns 2
- ABB and AAB
Master · ages 7 to 10 · first lessons arrive soon
A real lesson: “Move the robot” from Robot steps
How one lesson goes, step by step
Masti opens with: “Masti follows your arrows.” “Tap arrows to reach the star, then press Go.” Everything she says is spoken aloud.
Warm-up. One quick item from an earlier lesson, so last week's learning stays fresh.
Learn. Masti teaches the idea with pictures, in her own words, before anything is asked.
Try. 3 goes of Robot steps, with help one tap away. Before a new kind of question, a short “Watch me first” demo shows the gesture.
Play. One game of Pattern next with the same idea.
Check. 3 goes of Robot steps with no help. Only this step counts towards mastery, and a wrong answer gets an amber nudge, never a red cross.
Celebrate. Stars, XP, the streak tick and the next lesson's name.
The skills it builds
And why they matter at this age
Patterns
Red, blue, red, blue. Seeing the repeat is the beginning of algebra and of rhyme. Count by twos is a pattern in numbers.
Sorting
Animals here, food there. Deciding what belongs together is how a child builds categories, and categories are how new words get filed away.
Sequencing
First, next, last. Putting pictures in order is the shape of a story and of every instruction a child will ever follow.
Robot steps
A plan of arrows that Masti then follows is a first program. When it misses the star the child sees exactly which step was wrong and changes it, which is debugging before anyone calls it that.
6 kinds of practice in this world
What the activities look like
Every activity is one of fourteen kinds the whole app shares, so a child who has met one never has to learn a new screen for the next lesson.
Pattern next
Red, blue, red, blue… tap what comes next.
Drag to sort
Drag each card into the group it belongs to.
Tap to count
Tap each thing once. Masti counts along out loud.
Choose the picture
Hear a word, tap the picture that matches it.
Robot steps
Give Masti the arrows to reach the star, then press Go.
Sequence order
Put the pictures in order: first, next, last.
By age
The same world, pitched to the child
Explorer 3–5
Patterns with colours and pictures, sorting by tapping.
Builder 5–7
Odd one out, ordering a morning, the first robot paths.
Master 7–10
Longer paths and turning corners: more steps, fewer hints.
Story Time books for this world
Read aloud by Masti, with a short quiz at the end: Let's Make a Cake · The Frog and the Star · The Rocket to the Moon · Bip the Robot.
How Story Time works
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