Built by a 4th grade teacher · 18+ years in the classroom · 42K+ parents and teachers following along
You learned to carry the one. Your child learns partial sums.
Figured walks your child through it the way their teacher taught it — never giving the answer — so you finally get to say oh, THAT'S what they're doing.
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Built by Kristen Lombardo
4th grade teacher · 18+ years in the classroom
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My Topics
✓Area Model Multiplication
◐Long Division
⚠Equivalent Fractions
sound familiar?
If you've had this conversation, you already know how it ends.
7:42 PM
A child says they don't remember how to do a problem. The parent offers to show them their way. The child says that's not how their teacher does it. The parent says they didn't learn it that way. The child asks: so now what?
Here's what most parents don't realize: it's usually not that your child doesn't understand the math.
They learned it that morning. By seven o'clock it's fuzzy, and they need someone to walk them back through it the way their teacher showed them. That's the part that's hard for you — not because you can't do math, but because you learned it a completely different way. So you offer help, they say "that's not how we do it," and now two people are frustrated at one worksheet.
I'm Kristen, a fourth grade teacher with eighteen years in the classroom, and I've watched this scene play out in thousands of homes. And if your child just pulls the answer off ChatGPT or Photomath, nothing gets fixed — they've got a number and no idea where it came from.
That's where I come in.
Meet FIGURED. Your child's homework tutor — built by a teacher.
It knows the strategies your child's teacher is using, it never gets frustrated, and it's awake at 8pm on a Tuesday.
Here's the key difference: Figured never just hands over the answer. That's not teaching — that's copying. Instead it does what I do in my classroom every single day:
1Understands the problem — Not the math yet — just the problem. What's happening? What do we know? What are we trying to find?
2Asks the right questions — “What if we drew this as an area model?” “Can you count the groups again?” Questions, not answers.
3Walks through the strategy — One tiny step at a time, so your child learns HOW to solve it — not just WHAT the answer is.
4Celebrates the win — “That's it. You did that yourself.” Because that moment is the whole point.
Your child gets the aha moment. They understand the strategy. They're ready for the next problem. And they actually LEARNED something.
🔥 Celebrates every win — and means it🧠 Teaches the WHY, not just the answer🚫 Never. Just. Gives. The. Answer.
I'm not going to tell you the answer. But I'll get you there. Does your teacher have you use a number line for these, or partial sums?
number line
Perfect, that's what I'd do too. What number are we starting on? 🤔
for parents
Finally, homework help that actually teaches.
I know you want to help your child with homework. You really do. But you didn't learn it this way, and you don't have 18 years of teaching experience. That's not a failure on your part — it's just reality.
You don't have to be a math expert
Your child doesn't need you to understand area models or number lines. Figured handles the teaching. You just get to be supportive — “that's great that you're working on this!” is enough.
You see everything
The parent dashboard shows exactly what your child worked on, which strategies they've got down, and which ones need more practice. No more guessing.
Your child actually learns
Figured never gives answers. Your child has to think, work through it, and figure it out. That's how real learning happens — and how they do well on tests.
COPPA compliant and safe
Your child's data is protected. We don't sell data. We don't track them across the internet. Privacy first, always.
Less than one tutoring session
A private tutor runs $50–100 an hour. FIGURED. is $8.99/month for founding families, and it covers up to 4 children in your home.
Your child actually WANTS to use it
This isn't homework that feels like punishment. Children earn coins, unlock avatars, and build streaks. They come back on their own.
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the real stuff
Built on the strategies your child's teacher is actually using.
All topics, grades 3 through 5. Modern math isn't harder — it's just different. Here's what your child is being shown.
Number Lines
adding and subtracting
How you learned it
Stack them up and borrow from the neighbor.
How your child learns it
Start on one number and jump in friendly chunks to the other.
What it shows: What the distance between two numbers actually is.
Area Models
multiplication and division
How you learned it
Line the numbers up in columns and work right to left.
How your child learns it
Break both numbers apart, draw the boxes, multiply, add it up.
What it shows: Multiplication as a shape you can see and count.
Partial Sums, Products & Quotients
adding, multiplying and dividing
How you learned it
Start on the right, carry the one, and bring the next digit down.
How your child learns it
Add the hundreds, then the tens, then the ones — and when dividing, pull out friendly chunks and add up how many you took.
What it shows: What each digit is really worth while you work.
Place Value Charts
every operation
How you learned it
Keep the columns lined up and trust the setup.
How your child learns it
Sort the digits into ones, tens and hundreds, then regroup.
What it shows: Why regrouping works instead of just where to put the 1.
Bar Models / Tape Diagrams
word problems and fractions
How you learned it
Read the problem and hunt for the keyword.
How your child learns it
Draw the bar, split it, label the parts you know.
What it shows: What the problem is actually asking before any math starts.
Equal Groups & Arrays
multiplication and division
How you learned it
Recite the times table until it sticks.
How your child learns it
Draw the groups, fill them evenly, count the rows and columns.
What it shows: That multiplying and dividing are the same picture, two ways.
Your child's teacher is teaching these. Figured teaches your child how to USE them. That's the difference between memorizing and understanding.
here's how
How FIGURED. works (it's simple).
Step 1
Your child snaps their homework
“I don't get this problem.” They open FIGURED., snap a photo (or type it in), and send it over. Takes 10 seconds.
Step 2
Figured walks them through it
It asks which strategy their teacher uses, then guides them through it step by step — the same way it was taught at school. Never gives the answer. Your child does the thinking.
Step 3
Your child figures it out
They solve it. Figured celebrates. 🎉 They earn coins, build their streak, and move on — having actually learned something.
Two ways to use it
Homework help. Enter the problem your child is stuck on and Figured walks them through it, one question at a time.
Practice a skill. No homework tonight? Pick a topic and practice it — same guidance, no worksheet required.
That's it. No complicated setup. No confusing interface. Just homework help that actually teaches.
Try it right now. No account needed.
This is a real walkthrough, the same way Figured talks to your child. Pick a topic and tap through it — you'll notice I never hand over the answer.
Free sample · no account needed
The problem
A classroom has 24 chairs in each row. There are 15 rows. How many chairs are in the classroom?
Show this part to your child.
Bright Spark says…
hey, you. yeah, you.
Math that actually makes sense.
Being stuck is totally normal! It just means you're standing at the exact spot where the learning happens.
You're not just getting answers — Figured shows you HOW to solve it. And when you figure it out yourself? That feels amazing. You actually UNDERSTAND it instead of memorizing it.
It's like a teacher in your pocket — After school? After dinner? Saturday morning? Figured is there. And it never gets frustrated with you.
You earn coins — Every problem you work through earns coins. Build a 7-day streak. Unlock cool avatars. Collect badges. It's a game you actually want to play.
You celebrate your wins — Every time you figure something out, Figured celebrates with you. 🎉
You can show your work — Every answer on your page is one you actually got to yourself. That feels different, and your parents can see it too.
🪙 Earn coins as you learn🏆 Earn badges for every topic you master🎮 Unlock avatars — the rare ones are WILD
Bright Spark
Fraction Hero
Math King
Can you unlock them all? 👀
coins, streaks, avatars
The part they'll actually ask for.
Here's the secret: children don't give up on math because it's too hard. They give up when they're stuck and don't know what to do next. Figured fixes that — and then gives them a reason to come back tomorrow.
Earn coins for every problem
Work through a problem, earn coins. Children see their progress and want to keep going.
Build your streak
Come back tomorrow and the counter climbs. Miss a day and it starts over. It's a small thing, and it's remarkable how hard children will work to protect it.
Unlock cool avatars
Spend coins to unlock new avatars. Some are rare. Children will practice math just to get them.
Pull from the claw machine
Spend coins on a pull and see what comes out. Some items are common, some are rare, and the rare ones are the whole reason children keep going.
Collect badges
Mastered addition? Badge. Worked through 50 problems? Badge. Proof of what they've actually mastered.
See your progress
Progress rings show mastery by topic, so children know exactly what they've got and what's next.
Every coin came from a problem they worked through themselves.
A 60-second hello from Kristen drops here — the written version is right beside it.
hi, i'm kristen
Built by a teacher. For every child who said "I need help."
I'm Kristen Lombardo. I've been teaching fourth grade for eighteen years, and I'm a parent — which is how I know that the hardest part of elementary math isn't the math. It's the twenty minutes at the kitchen table when nobody remembers how it was supposed to go.
I've watched parents who desperately want to help and can't. They didn't learn it this way. They feel like they're failing their child, and they're not — they're just holding a worksheet written in a language nobody taught them.
Figured is all of my experience, distilled into an app. Every strategy is one that I teach. Every response is written the way I'd say it if I were sitting next to your child. It never gives the answer, and it's there at seven o'clock on a Tuesday when I can't be.
"Since when do we solve it this way? Since now — and once you see it, it makes a lot more sense than it looks like it does."
— Kristen Michelle Lombardo, 4th grade teacher · 18+ years · founder of FIGURED.
from my classroom to your kitchen table
Free printables + guides
Free · Grades 3–5
Box the Bossy Neighbor
Does your child freeze up the second rounding comes up? Underline the digit you're rounding to, box the bossy neighbor to the right. 5 or more bumps it up. 4 or less, it stays put. Teach the number line first, then hand them this.
Step-by-step "meet the neighbor" breakdown kids remember
Rounding to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand
A number-line "prove it" section that connects the shortcut to the why
Your child has been staring at the same flashcard for ten minutes. You've said "just memorize it" three times. Nobody is having fun. Fast Facts Figured™ is built on one idea: kids learn their facts faster when practice feels like play. Ten minutes a day.
The 1-Minute Timed Practice System: 2s through 12s + mixed review, reusable with a sheet protector
Factor Tracker: pass each fact family 3 times and earn the MASTER stamp
5 games: Number Trails, Tic-Tac-BINGO, Race to 100, Multiplication War, Pocket Facts
3 tutorial videos so you know exactly how to run each one
Leave your email and I'll send you the launch note — nothing else.
Questions? Figured.
No. Figured never hands over an answer. Your child has to think and work through the problem themselves — and you can see everything they worked on in the parent dashboard.
