Math Practice

Math practice for kids (and anyone else) - counting, times table recitation, and interactive arithmetic quizzes across all four basic operations. Fully offline.

Three separate modes, deliberately not one "do math" intent

1. Counting - "count to ten" - pure recitation, no interaction.
2. Table recitation - "say the 5 times table" - pure recitation of 1×5 through 10×5, no interaction. Multiplication only - addition/subtraction/division don't have a traditional "table" concept the same way, so this stays scoped to what "times table" actually means.
3. Quiz - "quiz me on the 3 times table" / "quiz me on addition" - genuinely interactive: asks 5 questions one at a time, listens for a spoken answer, and reports a final score. Covers all four basic operations, not just multiplication - this was an explicit scope correction from the original "times tables" framing during design.

Usage

"count to ten"
"say the 5 times table"
"quiz me on the 3 times table"
"quiz me on addition"
"give me a math quiz"
"tæl til ti"                    (Danish)
"sig 5 tabellen"                (Danish)
"quiz mig i 3 tabellen"         (Danish)

How the quiz works

Unlike ovos-skill-metronome/ ovos-skill-rhythm-box/ ovos-skill-white-noise, quiz mode needs no background thread - it's a sequential, blocking conversation using OVOSSkill.get_response(), which already handles the listen-and-transcribe round-trip. Each of the 5 questions is asked, answered (or timed out), and scored in turn; a timed-out or unparseable answer counts as incorrect rather than crashing the quiz.

Problem generation defaults

• 5 questions per quiz round.
• Times tables: the traditional 1-12 range.
• Addition/subtraction: operands 1-20, subtraction always kept non-negative (larger number first).
• Division: always divides evenly (built as divisor × quotient, both 1-10) - no fractional answers, since spoken fraction-checking is a much harder problem than this skill attempts to solve.

Install

pip install ovos-skill-math-practice

Development

See DEVELOPMENT.md.

Category

Education

Tags

#math #education #times-tables #quiz #kids