Compass School Manager vs Mathsterious Mansion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Compass School Manager
Access school news, events, and assignments. Stay informed about your child's academic progress and school activities. Designed for seamless communication between school and home.
- School news updates
- Event calendars
- Assignment tracking
- Parent-teacher communication
- Student progress monitoring
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Compass School Manager provides access to school news, events, upcoming assignments and more. This application is designed for staff, students and parents.
Mathsterious Mansion
Embark on a mathematical adventure in a mysterious mansion, mastering addition and subtraction within 1-100. Collect characters by completing challenging levels and phases, developing place value understanding through engaging gameplay.
- Addition and subtraction practice
- Place value understanding
- 5 challenging levels with increasing difficulty
- Story and Arcade game modes
- Collectible characters with unique histories
- Interactive hundred grid
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Are you brave enough to master the Mathsterious Mansion? Mathsterious Mansion is an engaging new mathematical game from 3P Learning, the team behind the world’s favourite online educational maths resource, Mathletics. Designed for Primary/Elementary aged students (7-11), Mathsterious Mansion teaches addition and subtraction and place value understanding within 1 – 100. It’s perfect for self-directed learning, home schooling and as a game-based learning activity for the classroom. The Mathsterious Mansion holds many secrets and is inhabited by a fascinating cast of characters. Your mission is to collect all of the characters by mastering 5 levels, each with 3 phases of increasing mathematical difficulty, by answering addition or subtraction algorithms using the hundred grid… if you dare! iPAD FEATURES: I. A slick and exciting student interface (custom designed for the iPad). II. Five challenging levels of difficulty to unlock… children will want to play over and over again. III. Two game modes: Story Mode Arcade Mode IV. A Reward Game, where the lost character can be found. V. 15 collectible characters who ‘live’ in the mansion, each with a hilarious history to discover! VI. A full tutorial for each level. VIITrace, tap and swipe functionalities that develop conceptual understandings of place value, the commutative property of addiction and the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction. … and much, much more! WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE MATHEMATICS? Level 1 Add / subtract a 1-digit number to or from a 1 or 2-digit number within a decade: e.g. 42+ 6 or 65 – 3. Counting on or back is a good strategy at this level. Level 2 Add / subtract a 1-digit number to or from a 1 or 2-digit number across decades: e.g. 45+ 6, 65 – 8 or 9+5. Practise your bridge to 10 strategy here. Level 3 Add / subtract a multiple of ten to or from a 2-digit number: e.g. 45 + 30, 20 + 64 or 65 – 20. Practise counting on and back by tens. You can also turn the addition problems around to find the easier addition. Level 4 Add / subtract a 2-digit number to or from a 2-digit number: e.g. 43 + 51 or78 – 34. Partitioning numbers is a helpful strategy at this level. Level 5 Find missing addend, subtrahend or operation e.g. 42 + ×= 50, 50 – × = 34, or 50 ×15 = 35. Use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction to find the easiest problem for you to solve! Each level has 3 phases. The first phase develops understanding of the processes – take the time you need to explore the hundred grid and notice helpful number patterns. The time restrictions in the second phase encourage you to make those facts automatic while the missing numbers on the grid in the third phase develop your understanding of place value.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mathsterious Mansion at 100% against Compass School Manager's 35%. Mathsterious Mansion also leads on iOS requirement (5.1 vs 15.1). Compass School Manager's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (142 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Compass School Manager holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compass School Manager has 142 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Compass School Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mathsterious Mansion's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Compass School Manager | Mathsterious Mansion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (142 ratings) — better | 3.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 5.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compass Operations Pty Ltd | 3P Learning |
Customer experience
Compass School Manager
Mathsterious Mansion
Bugs and requests
Compass School Manager
Reported bugs
5 issues- Unable to log in or search for school
- Notifications not working as expected
- Learning tasks page layout issues
- Landscape mode not functioning properly
- Inconsistent behavior across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Improve navigation and organization
- Allow students to remove submissions
- Show class rosters within each class
- Provide more customization options
Mathsterious Mansion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Compass School Manager
No in-app purchases
Mathsterious Mansion
No in-app purchases
Questions
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