Show me how

When your child answers a question wrong, LuLinDingo gives them the right number and then offers to walk them through a way to work it out.

What it is

After a wrong answer, the feedback at the bottom of the screen shows a "Show me how" button. If your child taps it, a small animated picture plays out the answer using the same numbers from the question they just missed. It's a worked example, not a correction.

The method changes with the kind of question:

• Addition counts up with dots, starting from the bigger number and adding the rest one at a time.
• Subtraction hops backward along a number line to land on the answer.
• Multiplication builds a skip-counting chain, like 4, 8, 12, 16, 20.
• Division shares the total out into equal groups so your child can see how many land in each.

The picture is tuned to your child's age, so a six-year-old and an eleven-year-old see methods that suit them.

Why it helps

A child who only sees "the answer is 8" learns that one answer. A child who watches the dots count up from 5 has a method they can use on the next question, and the one after that. The goal is a habit they can lean on, not a fact to memorize.

When it appears

The button only shows up after a wrong answer, and only when a simple picture actually fits the numbers. For very large numbers, or sums that would need too many dots to be readable, the button stays hidden and your child just sees the plain answer. So it won't appear after every miss.

How to use it

Tapping is up to your child. If they already understand their mistake, they can skip it and keep going. If they want to see the working, they tap "Show me how," watch it play, and can replay it with the play-again button before moving on.