User manual

Chapter 1

Why quick sums matter

A child meeting 7 + 5 for the first time must count it out. A child who has practised it simply knows it. The difference is not cleverness — it is familiarity, and familiarity comes only from short, frequent practice.

This matters because the mind can only hold a few things at once. A pupil still counting on fingers spends everything they have on the counting itself, with nothing left over for the actual problem. Once the number facts come without effort, that effort is freed for the part that matters: the method, the reasoning, the “what is this question really asking?”

That is the whole purpose of Wake Quick.Sums.Ap. Not to teach mathematics — the teacher does that — but to make the small, mechanical parts automatic, so the child has room to think.

What the pupil gains

• The mechanics stop getting in the way. Attention goes to the method instead of to the counting.
• Attention moves up to understanding. Fluency does not replace understanding; it clears space for it.
• Confidence grows, and fear shrinks. Fear of mathematics usually begins with feeling slow in front of others. Short daily wins work better than long, discouraging sessions.
• Speed improves on what is practised. Dependable, but specific: the child gets faster at the sums they have actually rehearsed.
• The habit itself is worth something. Sitting down and finishing something is a lesson in its own right.

What a parent or guardian gains

• Everyday reckoning gets quicker. Counting change, checking a trader's total, totalling a day's takings.
• Returning to study is less daunting. Rebuilding basic fluency makes harder material less punishing.
• Your attitude to mathematics passes to your child. A parent who says “I was never any good at maths” teaches something. A parent who sits down and does ten sums teaches something else.
• It gives you something to do together. For a four-year-old, a parent's attention is a stronger reward than the stars.
• You will understand the report. Having played the rounds yourself, the figures mean something concrete.

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Chapter 2

Getting started

You need a phone, tablet or computer with a web browser. Nothing to buy from an app store, no account to create, no password to remember.

Put it on your home screen

Doing this once makes Wake Quick.Sums.Ap behave like any other app: its own icon, its own window, and it works without internet afterwards.

• Android: open the app in Chrome, tap the three dots, choose Add to Home screen.
• iPhone or iPad: you must use Safari — Chrome on an iPhone cannot do this. Tap Share at the bottom (a square with an arrow), scroll down, tap Add to Home Screen.

Add your first pupil

Tap ✨ Add a pupil and fill in the name, the age, and a grown-up's email address — yours, not the child's. Reports are addressed there. Nothing is sent anywhere automatically.

Choosing the level

Every sum in this app has an answer of ten or more, so there is no counting warm-up and no gentler set of sums hiding underneath. A child who is not yet sure of the sums below ten belongs in Wake Easy.Sums.Ap first; starting here instead mainly teaches them that maths is what they fail at.

• All quick sums — every one of the 45, answers from 10 to 18. This is where a pupil normally starts.
• Making ten — the nine pairs that come to exactly 10: 1 + 9, 2 + 8, and so on. Choose this in Settings for a pupil who is guessing. Everything else in the app leans on these nine, so time spent here is never wasted.

Moving down to Making ten is not a failure — it is the right response to a struggling child.

The two games

• ➕ Play Quick Sums — the ordinary round. Ten sums, two or three minutes. This is the daily one.
• 🏁 The Sixty — sixty quick sums in a single game. Every one of the 45 appears at least once, and the fifteen repeats are drawn from the sums that child keeps missing. It takes ten to fifteen minutes, so it is a weekend or end-of-term test rather than a daily habit. Finishing one earns its own sticker.

The first round

Ten sums, over in two or three minutes. On a phone, tap ⌨️ Show the number keys if the keypad is not showing. Then stop — genuinely stop, even if the child wants another. Finishing while they still want more is the single most useful habit in this manual.

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Chapter 3

The screens explained

The grown-up gate

Settings, Reports, Plans and Support ask you to answer a multiplication question such as 8 × 6.

This is not security. It is a door handle placed high on the door — enough to stop a four-year-old wandering into your subscription settings, and no more. An older child will get past it. That is fine; it was never meant to stop one.

The home screen

Shows the pupil's name and four figures: stars earned, rounds played, best score, and day streak. Below that:

Button	What it does
➕ Play Quick Sums	Start a round of ten quick sums
🏁 The Sixty	Start the long game — sixty quick sums
📈 My chart	Scores over time, and badges earned
🎯 Tricky sums	Practice aimed at the sums this pupil keeps missing
📋 Report	The full progress report
⚙️ Settings	Level, sounds, pupil details, backups
🔁 Switch pupil	Change to another child on your plan
✉️ Support	Send a message for help
🏫 Class dashboard	Class licence only — all pupils at a glance

During and after a round

One sum at a time. Right answers are marked immediately; wrong ones show the correct answer rather than dwelling on the mistake. At the end you get the score, the stars, and any new badges — with the option to 🎯 Practise these ten, which rebuilds a round from the sums just missed.

There are eight badges: First round, All ten right, Quick thinker, Three days, 100 sums right, Ten maker, Doubles done, The Sixty finished.

Settings

• Level — Making ten, or all quick sums.
• Sums per round — ten suits most children.
• Sounds — turn off for a quiet house or a classroom.
• Animations — turn off on an older phone if things feel sluggish.
• Practise tricky sums more often — serves the hardest sums more frequently. Leave it on.
• Pupil details — name, guardian's email, support address.
• Data — backups and erasing. See Chapter 8 first.

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Chapter 4

Reports

Open a report from the home screen with 📋 Report. It contains the figures at a glance, a chart of scores over time, the facts now secure, the addends still causing trouble, and recommendations written from this pupil's own numbers.

Reading the numbers honestly

• Sums met: 18 of 45. There are 45 quick sums altogether — every pair of single-digit numbers whose answer reaches ten. A child may have 100% accuracy on the 18 they have seen and still have most of the ground ahead.
• Average time per sum. Under about four seconds usually means recall. Longer usually means counting. Both are fine — watch the number fall over weeks.
• 100% from two rounds means very little. Twenty questions is a small sample. Wait for five or six rounds before trusting any recommendation.

Sending a report

Button	What happens
💬 Send by WhatsApp	Opens WhatsApp with the report ready to send
🖨️ Print or save as PDF	Opens your printer, or saves a PDF
✉️ Email it	Shows the words with a Copy button
📋 Copy the words	Copies the report to paste anywhere

The app deliberately does not launch your email program itself — on some devices that behaves unpredictably and can interrupt the app. Copy the words, then paste them into your email.

When printing, your browser may add the web address across the top and bottom. To remove it, look under More settings in the print window and untick Headers and footers.

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Chapter 5

Older learners

Wake Quick.Sums.Ap is built for roughly ages six to nine, but anyone older is welcome — a ten-year-old still counting on fingers, a student rebuilding confidence, a trader who wants to be quicker, a grandparent keeping sharp. The age list runs to Adult (18 and over).

The sums do not change. The same 45 quick sums, the same nine answer keys. For an older learner the challenge is not difficulty but speed: how far the seconds per sum can be brought down while accuracy holds. The Sixty is the honest test of that.

What the report does differently

For anyone aged 7 or over, the recommendations are rewritten. They report the time for the whole ten-sum round as well as the per-sum average, because that is the figure a person actually races against. They talk about protecting accuracy while chasing speed. They do not suggest counters and bottle tops, and they do not advise keeping sessions under five minutes.

If the sums become too easy, that is the right outcome. Further apps for larger numbers are planned.

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Chapter 6

Plans and activation codes

The free trial needs no card. Prices and lengths are shown on the Plans screen inside the app.

Activation codes

You may be sent a code rather than paying inside the app. It looks like WM-Y365-7QK2-4M9X. Enter it under 🔑 Activate, exactly as given, including the dashes. Capital and small letters both work.

A code works on one device. Once used, it will not work again on that device. If your family uses two phones, say so when you buy.

If a code is refused, check for typing errors first — a 0 mistaken for an O, or a 1 for an I. If it still fails, contact support with the code so it can be looked up.

When a plan ends

The app warns you before expiry. Nothing is deleted when a plan lapses — your pupil's history stays exactly where it is, waiting.

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Chapter 7

If something goes wrong

“My pupil has disappeared.”

Almost always the browser, not the app. Are you in the same browser you set them up in — Chrome or Safari, tab or home-screen icon? Try the other one. The results are still there; you are looking in a different cupboard.

“I updated the app but I see the old version.”

Wake Quick.Sums.Ap saves itself to your device so it works offline, and the old copy sometimes lingers. Close the tab or icon completely, then open it again. Check the version number at the bottom of Settings.

“There is no sound.”

Check Sounds is on in Settings. On an iPhone, check the silent switch on the side of the phone. Some phones stay quiet until the screen has been tapped once — start a round and it will come.

“The keypad covers the things to count.”

Turn the phone upright rather than sideways. If it still happens, tell support which phone you have — that report is exactly what gets it fixed.

“Email did something strange.”

Use 📋 Copy the words instead, then paste into your email yourself. That route works on every device.

“The app feels slow.”

Turn off Animations in Settings. This helps a great deal on older phones.

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Chapter 8

Your results, and how not to lose them

Everything lives on your device only. Not on our servers — we do not have any. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sent anywhere, and nobody but you can see what your child has done. There is no account and no password because there is nothing to log in to.

Making a backup

In Settings, under Data, tap Save a backup. This saves a small file holding everything: pupils, scores, dates, badges. Keep it somewhere safe — email it to yourself, or put it in Google Drive. To bring it back, use Restore from a backup in the same place.

Do this once a month, and always before changing phones. It takes about twenty seconds and it is the only protection there is.

Erasing a pupil

Erase this pupil in Settings removes that child and everything recorded about them, immediately and permanently. Use it when handing a device on. There is no undo, so take a backup first if there is any doubt.

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