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EquationQuest

Visual balance-scale approach to the entire CCSS EE domain

Meet your mentor

Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.

EquationQuest mascot demonstrating — demonstrating

EquationQuest mascot praising — praising

EquationQuest mascot thinking — thinking

EquationQuest mascot encouraging — encouraging

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Engagement: Learn · primary

A friendly, illustrated walkthrough of EquationQuest for learners (ages 9-14), parents, and educators. For the technical architecture, see DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md. For curriculum alignment details, see TECHNICAL_DESIGN.md.

Distributed-narrative cast

Meet the cast

EquationQuest sits in the **math-mountains zone** alongside GeometryForge / ProofQuest / FunctionForge / RatioRealm / DiscreteQuest / ChanceForge — all 6 ship distributed-narrative casts.

Lever

Maintaining balance — do the same thing to both sides

Solo

Isolating the variable — moving everything else away from x

Undo

Inverse operations — addition ↔ subtraction, multiplication ↔ division

Spread

Distribution — multiplying across parentheses

Flipper

The sign-flip in inequalities when multiplying/dividing by a negative

What's distributed-narrative methodology? →

What's inside

First Launch

Your first launch walks through a brief onboarding (about 60 seconds):

The Four Tabs

EquationQuest is organized into four tabs at the bottom of the screen:

1. Solve (the home screen)

If you've set your Grade Level to 4-5 in your Profile, this screen automatically simplifies to a focused 3-element layout (hero + stats + topics).

2. Adventure

Five game modes that wrap algebra inside richer gameplay loops. Modes unlock as you play more sessions:

Mentored by Pivot — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.

How EquationQuest handles your kid's data

✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in

Full parent privacy guide →

Built with ForgeKit

EquationQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.

Coming to the App Store

EquationQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.

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