Comparison

Compass School Manager vs Mathsterious Mansion

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • School news updates
  • Event calendars
  • Assignment tracking
  • Parent-teacher communication
  • Student progress monitoring
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Compass School Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Compass School Manager versus Mathsterious Mansion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompass School ManagerMathsterious Mansion
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (142 ratings) — better3.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews35.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings142 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.15.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCompass Operations Pty Ltd3P Learning

Customer experience

Compass School Manager

All ratings142 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.8%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews358 reviews
Positive35.5%
Neutral13.4%
Negative51.1%

Mathsterious Mansion

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

None

Compass School Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Mathsterious Mansion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Compass School Manager free?
Compass School Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mathsterious Mansion free?
Mathsterious Mansion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Compass School Manager or Mathsterious Mansion?
Compass School Manager is rated higher. Compass School Manager averages 4.7 out of 5 from 142 ratings, while Mathsterious Mansion averages 3.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Compass School Manager or Mathsterious Mansion have ads?
Neither Compass School Manager nor Mathsterious Mansion shows ads.

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