Free Lite edition · until December 31, 2026
Bloom Garden for Grade 2
A math course that feels like a garden game. Your child plays through 15–20 chapters of picture puzzles and quietly learns the kind of math that wins contests. No leaderboards, no pressure — and nobody ever just tells them the answer. That’s the BLOOM way.
Free until Dec 31, 2026 · if your child can add and subtract, they’re ready
- Grade 2made for Grade 2 · a great review for Grades 3–4
- 15–20 chaptersin the free Lite version, with more added regularly
- Free until Dec 31, 2026no payment details, ever
- One prerequisitebasic addition and subtraction — that’s it
The lesson plan
Six worlds. One growing garden.
The Garden has six worlds — the same six kinds of questions kids meet in real contests like TIMO and HKIMO. Each chapter teaches one big idea through pictures your child can touch, count and move. And every world has its own garden friend who cheers your child on and helps with hints.
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Lily Pond
Logical Thinking
Patterns, line-ups and little logic puzzles. Learning to think it through.
with Lily the water lily
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Seed Works
Arithmetic
Adding and subtracting the clever way, with pairs and shortcuts.
with Sunny the sunflower
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Root Cellar
Number Theory
Place value, odd and even, bigger and smaller. How numbers work.
with Rooty the radish
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Glass Greenhouse
Geometry
Counting squares, mirrors and building blocks. Playing with shapes.
with Vera the aloe
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Trellis Maze
Combinatorics
How many ways can it be done? Paths, arrangements, careful counting.
with Twist the pea tendril
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Market Garden
Measure, Time, Money & Data
Clocks, coins, rulers and simple graphs. Math from everyday life.
with Thyme the thyme sprig
And your child never gardens alone
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Professor Bloom
The wise old tree of the Garden. He teaches every new idea in a few short, friendly lines — and never lectures.
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Your child’s own Sprout
On day one, your child plants a seed and gives it a name. It grows as they learn: seed, sprout, bud, and one day — full bloom.
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Caw & Craw, the Crow Twins
Two cheeky crows who bet your child can’t solve their puzzles. Smug, always fair — and never, ever mean about a miss.
Inside every chapter
Every chapter starts with a short lesson from Professor Bloom — a few simple lines and lots of pictures. Then your child learns by doing: dragging number chips, spotting the pattern, filling in the missing digit. The words stay simple, so most kids can do the whole thing on their own. No grown-up needed to read along.
The Garden opens with chapters like:
- Place Value Chips
- Pattern Chains
- Friendly Pairs
- Chain Reactions
- Repeated Blocks
- Missing Digits
- …new chapters added regularly
Three ways to practice
Every chapter comes with three kinds of quizzes.
Steady practice, quick practice, and a taste of a real contest. All three adjust to your child — and none of them ever compare your child to anyone else.
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Levels 1–4 · at your pace
Adaptive Quiz
Each chapter has four levels of questions. They get a little harder when your child is doing well, and a little gentler when they’re stuck — so it always feels just right. Every level climbed earns a star, and a star is never taken away.
Stuck? Their garden friend offers a hint — a nudge in the right direction, never the answer.
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Quick timed rounds
Mental Math
Quick rounds, about twenty seconds a question. Bit by bit, the math facts become fast and automatic — and that frees your child’s head for the fun, tricky problems. Kids love beating their own best.
No racing other kids. The only score to beat is their own.
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A mini contest
Crow Challenge
Every so often, Caw and Craw the Crow Twins turn up with a bet: “You can’t solve OUR puzzle!” Their challenge mixes questions from every world, just like a real contest. So when your child sits a real one someday, it already feels familiar.
The crows are smug but fair — and they never make fun of a miss.
Levels 1–4 · a promise to parents
Every kid is different — and that’s just fine.
Each chapter’s quiz climbs four levels. Level 1 builds the main skill. Levels 2 and 3 stretch it. Level 4 mixes ideas together, like a real contest. And here is the part we want every parent to hear: it is completely fine if your child doesn’t finish every level. The Garden is not a race to the top. It meets your child where they are.
The Level 1 questions alone will make your child perform better than most other kids in their classroom. Everything above that is a bonus.
Some kids fly to Level 4 in one world and stay at Level 1 in another. Both are doing it right. There are no leaderboards here, and your child is never compared to anyone else.
Honest work earns a daily scholarship.
Every day your child practices honestly, they earn a little scholarship credit — real credit, in their name, that counts toward the full version of the course. There’s a small daily limit, so it stays fun instead of stressful, and the money never buys answers. It’s simply our way of showing your child that honest work is worth something real.
The full course arrives late fall.
The complete Bloom Garden arrives in late fall 2026 — every world fully open, crow challenges along the way, and a friendly practice contest to finish the year. Start the free Lite version now: the stars, progress and scholarship your child earns all carry over.
The parent’s role
A little help from you goes a long way.
Your child can use the Garden all on their own. But kids do best when a parent sets the routine and cheers them on. Six small things that help a lot:
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Keep a small daily routine
15–20 minutes most days beats one long weekend session. Same time, same spot — after snack, before play — and the Garden becomes a happy habit.
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Sit close for the first week
It’s always fine to help read a question. Just don’t give away the answer — the thinking is where the learning happens.
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Praise the fix, not the score
In the Garden, wrong answers aren’t failures — they come back later so your child can fix them. Cheer “you fixed it!” as loudly as “you got it right!” and your child learns that trying matters most.
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It’s okay to be stuck
Being stuck for a minute is not an emergency — that’s when the brain grows. The garden friends give hints, one step at a time. Your job is just calm company.
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Ask about the garden every day
A simple “did you water your garden today?” goes a long way. Let your child show you what they earned — it’s a proud moment for a seven-year-old.
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Take the weekly garden tour
Once a week, let your child walk you through their garden — what has bloomed, what’s still growing. They’ll love being the guide, and you’ll see their progress better than any report card could show it.
In Grade 3 or 4? The Garden is a great refresher.
Many older kids have small gaps in the basics — place value, quick adding and subtracting. Bloom Garden makes fixing those gaps feel like play. And strong basics make everything in Grades 3 and 4 (including our MPS courses) easier.
Plant the seed today.
Enrolling is free and takes a few minutes — no payment details, nothing to cancel. The Lite version is free until December 31, 2026. If your child can add and subtract, they’re ready. The Garden does the rest.
