Maths practice, meet match day.

Math Goals is a small Australian studio making games for kids, with your state's maths syllabus underneath. Built by a dad at the kitchen table and play-tested on the couch by two very hard markers.

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Free to play · Kindergarten to Year 6 · every state and territory · no ads

Math Kicks Academy home screen on a phone: G'day Ezra!, the Goal of the Day card, and Zac the Zebra ready to play — The real thing: Ezra's home turf on a school night.

Our first title: Math Kicks Academy.

A soccer maths trainer for Kindergarten to Year 6. Kids answer questions to score goals, then spend their winnings on kits, ball skins and new animal team-mates.

Built on your state's syllabus. 140 question sets mapped to the K–6 outcomes across number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability, grouped the way your syllabus groups them. Pick a state when you add a child and the questions follow that curriculum, sequenced to the year it teaches each topic.
Your school's words for things. A Queensland kid sees Prep, a Victorian kid sees Foundation, and a South Australian kid sees Reception.
Misses come back. Whatever a child gets wrong turns up again over the next few days, and keeps turning up until they've got it.
Rewards worth playing for. Balls, medals and trophies buy characters and kits, all of it earned by playing. We don't sell loot boxes or run ads.
Made for phones, works offline. Installs like an app and keeps working in the car.

Play free in your browser Android app in the works

Meet the squad.

Six stars to sign, each with their own kits and goal celebrations. The first two are named for Ezra and Owen, the kids this whole studio started with.

Ezra the ElephantCaptain · never forgets a times table
Owen the OctopusGoalkeeper · eight arms on the line
Charlie the CheetahWinger · fastest recall on the pitch
Livi the LionStriker · fearless with big numbers
Sienna the SnakeMidfield · smooth on the number line
Zac the ZebraDefence · black and white on place value

All six star in Math Kicks Academy. Kids collect medals in-game to sign them for their team.

Ten minutes after school, most days.

That does more for a kid than an hour of worksheets on a Sunday. Everything we build has to fit inside that window: a fast win, then back again tomorrow.

Started in a lounge room.

Math Goals began the way most backyard clubs do: one dad, one kid who'd rather do anything than maths practice, and a laptop after bedtime.

The first build was a maths game Ezra asked for by name: score goals by solving questions, spend the winnings on ridiculous football kits. Then his brother Owen wanted in, and the squad grew.

We're a proper studio now, in the sense that we have a name, a domain and a growing roster of animal footballers. Same rule as day one: if the kids on the couch wouldn't choose to play it, it doesn't ship.

The founding players: Ezra the Elephant & Owen the Octopus.

The founding players: Ezra the Elephant & Owen the Octopus.

How we play.

Three rules on the whiteboard, and they don't move.

The game is the reward

We don't run guilt-trip streaks or countdown timers. Kids earn balls, medals and new team-mates by answering questions, and it's the football that brings them back tomorrow.

A real syllabus underneath

Every question is generated against the K–6 maths curriculum of the state you pick, so a Year 3 in Perth gets what Year 3 in Perth is up to. Whatever a child misses comes back a few days later, and keeps coming back until they've got it.

Tested on the toughest crowd

Every feature goes past our in-house review panel: two kids who say "this is boring" before you've finished explaining it. Plenty of ideas never make it out of the lounge room.

Say hello.

Questions about the games, ideas we should steal, schools that want in early. Send it through and we'll read it.

Prefer plain email? hello@mathgoals.com.au.
We're a one-dad, two-kid-QA operation, so give us a day or two.