Nothing here is
selling to your kid.

You have handed over the tablet again, and you are doing the thing every parent does — telling yourself that this one is educational.

Maybe it is. But somewhere in the last twenty minutes there has been an advert for a mobile game, a cartoon character who wanted your child to go and find a grown-up, and a countdown timer designed by someone whose job title includes the word “retention”.

None of that is there because it helps a child learn. It is there because it works on them.

We should say up front how this started, because it was not a business plan. Our own children kept finishing their schoolwork early and coming home flat — not because they disliked learning, but because the pace in a class of thirty is set for the middle of the room, and they were not in it.

So we started making things at the kitchen table. Maths puzzles over dinner. Science on Saturdays. Reading games on long drives. Most of it was abandoned halfway through, which turned out to be the useful part: we kept what a real child would actually finish, and threw out what only looked good on paper.

The problem is not screen time. It is what is on the screen.

“Screen time” is a blunt measure and you already know it. Twenty minutes reading a book on a tablet is not the same as twenty minutes in an infinite feed, and no timer on your phone can tell the difference.

What actually differs is the intent behind the thing. Some software is built to teach a child something and then let them go. Some is built to keep them, and to sell that attention to somebody else. Both look identical from the doorway.

So here is our position, stated plainly enough that you can hold us to it: there is no advertising anywhere a child goes on this site. No rewarded video, no banner, no character asking them to ask you for a card. Nothing on a child's screen here is trying to sell them anything.

It costs us the easiest revenue on the internet. We are funded by family memberships and by printable packs in our shop instead, which is a slower business and an honest one.

And the second thing: nothing here is a trap

You know the shape of the trap. Free for fourteen days. A card required to start the free part. A renewal date you will not remember, at a price you had to find on a review site because it was not on theirs.

So, precisely: 1,316 games are free with no account. All 6,193 printable worksheets can be browsed on screen for free. Every standards page is free and ungated. Your child does not need an account to play, and is never asked for an email address.

One thing is capped: downloading printable files, at 3 a day per person, resetting daily. That is the complete list of limits. A membership lifts it, its price is printed on our pricing page rather than quoted later, and it cancels in one click from settings with no email to anybody.

What you actually get for nothing

7,509 activities in total, organised by grade from Pre-K to Grade 10, across maths, English, science, social studies and art.

All 108 of the 108 Common Core mathematics standards from Kindergarten to Grade 5 have at least one aligned free worksheet behind them — 1,246 aligned sheets in total. That is the part most useful to a parent, and almost nobody explains why: when a school report hands you a code like 3.NF.A.1 and no translation, you can look it up, read a plain-language version of what it means, and go straight to practice for exactly that thing.

There is also a full homeschool curriculum for families doing this properly, and take-home practice — authored school days in sequence rather than a shuffle of unrelated sheets — for holidays and the stretch of summer where everything quietly slips.

The printer is not a downgrade

We are not under the impression that the answer to every problem is more device time, and neither are you.

Every worksheet prints. They work in the back of a car, in a waiting room, at the kitchen table while you cook, and on the evening when a screen is obviously the wrong answer. For a child who is already frustrated, paper is very often better than another glowing rectangle.

How to audit any “educational” app in four minutes

This is worth more to you than anything we could say about ourselves, so here it is, and it applies to us too.

Watch it for four minutes without touching it. Not the marketing page — the actual thing your child uses. Count the interruptions. An advert, a character asking for a grown-up, a pop-up offering a bundle: each one is a decision somebody made about your child.

See what happens when an activity ends. Does it stop, or does something else start automatically? A thing that stops was built to teach. A thing that autoplays was built to retain.

Try to find the price. If you cannot find it without creating an account, that is the answer. Prices that only appear after a signup are prices designed to be discovered too late.

Check what it asks the child. A name is fine. An email address, a birthday, a photograph or a contact list is a different product with a different business model, whatever the app store category says.

“But mine only wants the games”

Good. That is not a problem to be solved, it is how children of that age learn most willingly, and pretending otherwise is how worksheets end up abandoned under a sofa.

The games here are organised by grade and by subject for exactly that reason. A child playing a Grade 3 multiplication game is doing Grade 3 multiplication, whatever it looks like from the kitchen. You do not have to convert them to worksheets for it to count.

Where the paper genuinely wins is a different situation: the child who is frustrated, the child who is over-stimulated, and the long car journey. That is why both exist, rather than one being the real thing and the other a consolation prize.

What changes as they get older

At three to five, everything is visual — nothing asks a pre-reader to read the instruction, which sounds obvious and is broken constantly elsewhere.

From five to seven the games do most of the work, because a child that age will happily give fifteen minutes to a game and four to a worksheet, and both are teaching the same thing.

From seven to eleven this becomes genuinely useful to you rather than just to them, because that is the range where school starts reporting in standards codes and stops explaining them.

Past eleven it thins out. We would rather write that here than let you build a term around a shelf that is still filling in.

The thing nobody tells you about worksheets

Most worksheet sites are enormous and nearly empty. The same activity is reprinted under forty topic names, so a search that returns two hundred results is really returning nine things.

We know because it was true of us. A stretch of our own paid packs turned out to be substantially duplicated — pages that looked different and were the same underneath. So we built a check that counts duplicate content across the whole catalogue and fails the build when it climbs.

It is the least interesting thing we have ever built and probably the most useful, and it is the reason the numbers on this page are smaller than they could be. They count what is actually different.

What we hold about your child

A child using this without an account gives us nothing. Progress is kept on the device so the games remember where they were, and that is the extent of it.

If their teacher runs a classroom here, the teacher sees a first name and what was finished — not an email address, not a last name, not a photograph, because none of those are ever asked for.

If you create an account or take a membership, we hold what that requires and nothing more. Nothing about a child is sold to anybody, and there is no advertising network embedded in the pages a child sees, which is a different and stronger statement than promising not to sell data.

Why any of it is free

Because a worksheet costing $3 is not a business, it is a toll on the parents who can least afford to pay it, and because a site that gates its content has to spend all its energy on the gate.

So the free tier is not a sample. It is most of the site. The membership exists for families who print a great deal and would rather not think about a daily cap, and the shop exists for people who want a finished, organised pack rather than assembling one. Neither of them is funded by your child's attention.

What we are not going to claim

We are not going to tell you this will make your child love learning. That is not a thing a website does, and any site that says otherwise is selling you the feeling rather than the thing.

We are not going to show you testimonials, because we would have to write them. We are not going to quote a number of families using it, because the honest version of that number is smaller than the one a marketing page would print. Every number on this page is a count of something in the product, read from the product itself.

Depth is uneven too, and you should know before you plan around it: Kindergarten through Grade 8 is the deepest part of the catalogue, Pre-K is the thinnest shelf, and Grades 9 and 10 are still filling in.

What we are telling you is that it costs nothing to look, that nothing will ask you for a card, and that nothing on the screen your child ends up on is trying to sell them anything.