Brush Up on Your Times Tables With the Duolingo Math App
Language-learning platform Duolingo is testing a different type of problem: math.
The beta program(Opens in a new window), which is now taking waitlist registrations, teaches third-grade math to iPhone and iPad users, starting with multiplication.
Based on an early test by The Verge's Monica Chin(Opens in a new window), users can also expect to tackle division, fractions, area, perimeter, angles, telling time, "and other things I promptly forgot how to do as soon as I graduated from high school," according to Chin.
Duolingo Math takes many cues from its sister language app; it features a similar aesthetic, sound effects, and lesson format. The latter focuses on a set of numbers, just as you would interact with specific bunches of words at a time. There's also that familiar vertical lesson progression and passive-aggressive notifications to study more.
Moving forward, the company plans to introduce courses at different levels based on age—including adults who may have shed some of their knowledge through the years, The Verge says. There are no plans (for now) to move Duolingo Math behind the company's $6.99-per-month subscription paywall.
Learn more details about Duolingo Math during its Duocon 2022(Opens in a new window) event today. The video is embedded below and the session on the math app is scheduled to start at 11:40 a.m. ET.
If math isn't enough of a challenge, you can say sawubona ("hello") to Duolingo's latest language course, Zulu(Opens in a new window). The platform's second Bantu language (alongside Swahili), Zulu is spoken by some 12 million people, primarily in South Africa. As well as nouns, adjectives, and verbs, users will learn Zulu's click consonants—distinctive sounds created with a quick motion of
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