Bloom’s taxonomy
A ladder for thinking, all the way to mastery
Bloom’s taxonomy orders thinking from remembering a fact up to creating something new. Every one of the app’s 2,035 written questions is tagged with the rung it asks a child to reach — and 53% of them ask a child to analyse, evaluate or create.
- Every lesson climbs
- Each written lesson must reach a minimum of the upper rungs for its step, rising as the steps rise — the app is not built until every lesson does.
- Practice climbs too
- In most practice topics, as a child gets it right the questions move up from routine practice towards analysing and judging.
- Mastery, not a lucky run
- A topic counts as mastered only on sustained accuracy over many questions, and it comes back for review just before it would fade.
- A certificate earns its name
- A step certificate needs Create-level work actually done in that step — not just correct answers lower down.
The parent view shows the same six rungs for each child, so you can see what kind of thinking a month of practice asked for.
Write, explain or make something of their own.
From the app: Explain to someone younger why knowing 6 × 7 = 42 also means you know 42 ÷ 7.
Judge whether something is right or good, and say why.
From the app: Obi says "run" is always a verb, because running is something you do. Is he right?
Look for clues, reasons and patterns.
From the app: "My ears were making a rushing sound." What does this tell us about how Tunde felt?
Use a rule or method on something new.
From the app: Build the sentence in the past tense.
2. Understand
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Explain the meaning, put it in order, say it another way.
From the app: "Rest them on paper to drain." What does drain mean here?
Recall a fact or find it in the text.
From the app: What time do the lorries arrive from the farms?