Six subjects, and a separate footing in each one.
A child who is flying in maths and finding history hard is a normal child, and one number across everything would describe neither. Gnappo keeps where your child is in each subject apart from all the others, so the history questions get easier at the same time as the maths ones get harder.
The rungs a question can be written for
Grade 1 through 12, and then four rungs past the end of school — for the child who runs out of grades, which happens more often in this population than the grades allow for.
- Grade 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- Grade 12
- Amateur
- Pro
- Expert
- Guru
This ladder belongs to the questions. "This one is written for grade four" is a fact about a question, and it is what the rung is for: finding the right one to ask next. It is not a verdict on the child who answers it, your child is never told a level about herself, and there is no export — no PDF, no share link, no report a school could read. That last one is the rule that matters most, and it is kept by not building the button.
The question comes to where your child already is.
There is no worksheet to open and no session to start. Every so often while your child is using Gnappo — about every twelve minutes, which you set or switch off entirely — one to three questions appear in the conversation they are already in. Then it goes back to what they were doing.
Pitched just under, on purpose
Not at your child's level — a shade below it, so the next question is one they are about 60% likely to get. A question at exactly their level is a coin flip, and a coin flip every twelve minutes all afternoon is discouraging however much it tells us.
About what they were just talking about
A volcano question after a volcano conversation is a different thing from a worksheet. Where Gnappo can match the subject to what is already on their mind, it does — which is the whole difference between being asked something and being tested on something.
Yours to turn down, or off
Set how often, per child, or switch the interruption off completely — and a child who wants another question can simply ask for one. Nothing expires, nothing is lost by not showing up, and no notification is ever sent to a child to bring them back.
A record you could hand to anyone, because it makes no claim about your child.
You are the one keeping the record — in a homeschool you are the teacher as well as the parent — so everything Gnappo knows about the practice is on one page, and every line of it is something that happened rather than something we concluded.
By subject, and by week
How many questions in each of the six, how many right, when they last touched it, and the same counts week by week. "Three of four right" — the pair, never a percentage, because a rate off an adaptive set describes the questions as much as the child.
The last twenty answers, in her words
Not "wrong" — what she actually chose, beside the question and the explanation. "She picked 69" is a child who added the tens and forgot to carry, and that is a conversation at supper. "Wrong" is a number on a card.
Whether they got back up
How often a wrong answer was followed by a right one. For a lot of the children Gnappo is built for, that is the win worth watching — and it is the one a percentage buries completely.
That page counts what happened; it does not mark it. The six scales further up are how the next question gets chosen — this is the record of what your child actually did with the questions, in questions and answers rather than in a grade. No percentage, no rank, no percentile, no comparison against other children, and no report to export, print or send to a school. Nothing about your child's practice leaves your family, because there is nothing built that could take it out.
What your child sees instead
Twelve badges, and not one of them is a score. A badge for the first question ever answered, one for a hundred of them, one per subject for questions answered right — and the ones that matter most: getting the next one right after getting one wrong, five in a row after a hard patch, taking on something well above your usual whether or not you get it, and taking your time and getting it right anyway.
No currency, no streak that punishes you for missing a day, no timer, no leaderboard, and nothing that pings a child to come back. Nothing here expires and nothing is taken away — a badge that can be removed is a punishment mechanic, and this product does not have those. Effort and recovery are rewarded exactly as richly as getting things right, which is deliberate: for a lot of these children persistence is the harder win.
Built to be paid for the way homeschool families actually pay for things.
Florida's education savings accounts — the Personalized Education Program for families not enrolled in a school, and the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities for children with an IEP or a qualifying diagnosis — let a family buy from an approved provider, buy inside the program's marketplace, or buy out of pocket and submit the receipt. Arizona, Utah, Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas and Iowa run the same motion on their own rails.
A receipt written for a reviewer
The legal entity and its EIN first, the brand second. The twelve months the subscription actually covers, not the word "annual". And a description in the program's vocabulary — instructional materials, what it teaches, how many students it covers.
One price, to everybody
No scholarship price, no marketplace price, no channel price. Florida's own purchasing guide requires a family who finds a product cheaper elsewhere to be reimbursed at that price, so a second number would be a problem rather than an offer. There is one.
Your child's name stays yours
Gnappo holds a child's first name and nothing more — so when a claim needs the student named, you type the name onto the printed receipt yourself. It never reaches us, never reaches our payment processor, and is never stored anywhere.
Not homeschooling? Then the argument runs the other way round — the record fills the gap a report card leaves, and the half you arrived worried about is homework. Gnappo for a child at school →
What we are not going to claim. Gnappo is not currently listed in a scholarship marketplace and is not an approved provider of any program. Whether this purchase is reimbursable under yours is your program's decision, not ours — ask them before buying on the strength of this page. We have written to Step Up For Students and will say plainly here what they answer, including if the answer is no.
What a homeschooling parent asks.
Is Gnappo a curriculum?
No, and we would rather say so than sell you something it is not. Gnappo is instructional material that sits beside whatever you teach from: practice questions across six subjects and twelve grade levels, and a tutor-shaped helper for the work your child is already doing. There is no scope and sequence, no lesson plan, no unit to complete and nothing to submit. If you are homeschooling, Gnappo is the practice and the help — the curriculum is still yours.
Does Gnappo test or grade my child?
No. There is no test, no mark, no percentage, no level and no percentile anywhere in the product, for your child or for you. What you get is a count of what actually happened — how many questions, in which subjects, over which weeks, and the last twenty answers in your child's own words so you can see what she thought the answer was. Your child sees the questions and the badges, never a tally of how many she got wrong. That is a deliberate line and not a missing feature: a product that scored a child would be an assessment system, with everything that follows from being one, and we would rather be useful to you at supper than defensible to a school.
Who writes the questions, and who checks them?
A model writes them in batches, offline — never live in your child's session, because a question generated in the moment is a question nobody has read. Each one then passes three checks before any child can be asked it. A deterministic pass rejects the shapes that are always wrong: links, LaTeX, a reference to a diagram that will not be on the screen. Every arithmetic question is worked out by the same exact-arithmetic engine that checks what Gnappo says in chat, so a sum whose stated answer is not the answer is caught before a person ever looks at it. Then a second model reads the batch, and a person reads and approves each question one at a time. A question no person has approved is never asked, and neither model can approve anything.
How does Gnappo decide which question to ask?
From how your child has answered so far, per subject — and pitched slightly below that rather than exactly at it, so the next question is one they are about 60% likely to get right. A question at exactly their level is a coin flip, and a coin flip every twelve minutes all afternoon is discouraging however informative it is. Where it can, Gnappo asks about what your child was just talking about: a volcano question after a volcano conversation. The number that arranged it stays in the database and is never shown to anyone.
Can I use a Florida Step Up scholarship to pay for Gnappo?
We are not yet listed in a scholarship marketplace, and we are not going to tell you that you can until a program tells us. What we can do is give you a clean itemised receipt: the legal entity and its EIN, the dates the subscription covers, and a description written in the program's own vocabulary rather than ours — instructional materials, what it teaches, how many students it covers. Whether that is reimbursable is your program's decision and not ours, so ask them before you buy on the strength of it. One thing we can promise: there is one price. No scholarship price, no marketplace price, no channel price — the number you see is the number on the receipt.
Gnappo is in a closed beta.
We are letting families in a few at a time, so that every child on it gets the attention the guardrails need. Tell us about yours and we will write when there is room.
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