For children ages 5–9
A mentor that learns
how your child thinks.
Most tutors adjust how hard the questions are. Elva builds a model of your child — what they understand, where they get stuck, which explanations land — and it keeps that understanding for years.
Ordinary adaptive software
“Subtraction: 50% correct. Serving easier problems.”
It knows a score. It does not know a child.
Elva
“She subtracts each digit on its own. Crossing ten is where it breaks. The number line worked last time.”
It knows the misconception, the cause, and the fix that works for her.
One wrong answer, read properly.
Nova asks:
What is 17 − 9?
Maya, age 7:
“Ten.”
Nova doesn't correct her. It asks:
How did you figure that out?
Maya:
“I did 9 take away 7, then put the 1 back on.”
What Elva records
Not “got it wrong.” It records a misconception: Maya treats the digits as separate numbers instead of one quantity. That is a specific, fixable idea — and a completely different problem from a counting slip or a guess.
What it does next
It switches representation — a number line, counters, whatever has worked for Maya before — and watches whether the idea actually takes hold.
Three weeks later, on 32 − 7
“Remember when going backwards past ten was tricky? Let's use that number line you liked.”
Every single turn.
Behind a friendly conversation, one loop runs continuously.
- 01
Observe
What did they actually say, and how fast?
- 02
Hypothesise
Three possible reasons, none of them certain.
- 03
Probe
Ask the one question that tells them apart.
- 04
Teach
Use the representation that works for this child.
- 05
Verify
Check it held, days later, in a new form.
- 06
Remember
Keep it. Use it next month.
How the relationship deepens over time
Week one
It remembers me.
Six months
It understands me.
Years
It grew up with me.
Built for the parent, not around them.
You set it up
You create the account and give consent before your child ever talks to Nova. No child has a login of their own.
You see everything
Every conversation is reviewable. Nothing your child says is hidden from you, and Nova never encourages secrecy.
You can erase it
Delete your child's data whenever you want, in full. We designed for that from the first table onward.
Nova always tells a child it is a computer program, never claims to be human, never asks for personal details, and stays inside learning. Every message is screened before it is sent and after it is written.
Give your child a tutor who knows them.
Ten minutes is enough for Nova to start learning who they are.
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