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Upwardly Math

Real math practice for kids in grades K–8, assigned in minutes and reviewed from your phone.

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A student study guide on an iPad: a multi-digit multiplication question with an area model and the student's handwritten work in the drawing area
A parent unit report: first-try score, accuracy, best streak, time spent and help used, then each question's attempt history with the student's sketchpad
An AI student brief: Maya's math practice this week, with days practiced, first-try accuracy, the one skill to revisit, and buttons to review mistakes or build a review quiz
For students: real practice, with a sketchpad for their own work.
In my words

What I've learned

I started experimenting with agentic development on Upwardly Math fully expecting to find the limit of how far it could go. Nearly a year later, I haven't really found it. I haven't written a single line of code, and I intentionally chose technology stacks I had no experience with, to prove what was possible.

Along the way I learned a lot about Google Cloud architecture and tools, and more about Common Core math curriculum than I ever thought I wanted to know. It also gave me an excuse to watch Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and Grok evolve throughout 2026.

I also learned that marketing is brutally difficult, unforgiving and expensive. I have a new appreciation for anyone who lives in marketing and connects a product to customers at a cost that doesn't resemble the movie The Money Pit.

Best of all, I got to watch my kids take an interest in what I was building and come up with feature ideas for it. And I got to see it actually help them in school, with better grades and test results.

Why I built it

Upwardly Math started at my own kitchen table, helping my three boys through their math. They needed better practice than the worksheets I kept hunting down online.

It was also my first full commitment to agentic development. Then I decided to share it publicly as a product, which introduced me to marketing and running a business, and connected me with families and students who use it and help me improve it.

Who it's for

The busy parent whose kids already get math instruction at home or at school, and need more practice. Between sports, work and other kids, you want to be involved, but not hours-at-the-kitchen-table involved.

Instead of finding free worksheets, editing them, grading them and chasing down scratch work, you assign a study guide from an extensive catalog of real practice in a minute, with no paper trail. Then you check reports from your phone or laptop, and AI insights show where your kid struggles and which questions they spent the longest on, so your time goes into reinforcing those skills.

121students practiced in 2026
16,240questions answered
232parents used it in 2026

As of October 9, 2026, test accounts excluded.

Where it stands

Live for families and classrooms, with grades K–8 fully available.

Stories

The first Upwardly Math story is on the way. Meanwhile, read the others.