STEM
AlcumusForge
Portfolio-wide adaptive mastery practice for the math and STEM cluster. Three-option Next Problem surface (Extend, Consolidate, Stretch) with visible rationale. FSRS-6 spaced retention. Competition-problem ingest. Ages 11-14.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Alcuin
#6F5BAE AlcumusForge gives you a friendly map of math practice. Each session, it suggests three Next Problems — one to keep going (Consolidate), one slightly harder (Extend), and one well outside your comfort zone (Stretch) — and tells you why. Spaced-repetition memory tracking means you revisit a topic right when you'd otherwise start to forget it.
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
AlcumusForge's adaptive-mastery cast operationalizes the math-circle posture: a librarian-detective who knows the practice graph, a gentle hint author, a slow tortoise keeper of the practice room, a warm anti-anxiety streak presence, and a wider-than-you-think reframer.
Alcuin
Librarian-detective of the practice graph; knows what to try next
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Hint Hertha
Hint author and gentle redirector; never gives the answer
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Practice Patience
Slow-tortoise back-room keeper; long-game adviser
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Streak Bear
Warm anti-anxiety presence; the soft-streak character
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Stretch Sage
The wider-than-you-think reframer; surfaces transfer connections
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What's inside
Three Next Problems
Each round shows three options — Extend, Consolidate, Stretch — with the AI mentor's reasoning for each.
Spaced Retention
Topics resurface at the right moment to lock in memory. No more re-learning what you almost remembered.
Competition Ingest
Practice problems from real math competitions — AMC, MATHCOUNTS, problem books — woven into the daily flow.
Mastery Map
See the connections between topics. Find the unlocks. Watch your map grow.
Mentored by Alcuin — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How AlcumusForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
AlcumusForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
AlcumusForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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