How a lesson works

Find the gap. Build the idea. Prove it clicked.

Manthika turns one topic into a short, adaptive climb. It starts where the learner is, uses their own AI for small investigations, and only calls an idea mastered when they can use it for themselves.

In the lesson itself, that is just three steps: Find your level · Practice · Complete.

a topic
Checks where you standa few quick questions, before any teaching
Teaches the one idea you're missingnot the next item in a fixed list
Asks a real questionauto-graded on the spot
clicked?not yet — it comes at it another wayyesyesthe next idea
not yet — it comes at it another way
The loop a good teacher runs by hand: find the gap, teach it, check it honestly — and never move on until it clicks.
01 · Place

Start at the right rung

No account or setup. The learner picks their name and answers four quick questions. Each angle is marked solid, shaky, or not yet, so the lesson can skip what they know and begin at the first real gap.

“An app guesses a house’s price from its size. Is the output a number, a group, or a picture?”

Why we start here, not at a fixed lesson one →

A placement question on the live lesson, with one question and three answers on the phone screen.
02 · Climb

Build one idea from five angles

The app serves one card at a time and always works on the lowest shaky angle. If an advanced question exposes a weak foundation, the path quietly drops back and repairs it.

Why five angles, and what a right answer actually proves →

Clarity
What is it?
Explanation
How does it work?
Background
Why is it needed?
Implications
Where can it fail?
Connections
What else does it affect?
75 · next topic90 · mastery
ClarityExplanationBackgroundImplicationsConnections
Clarity
Explanation
Background
75 — next topic unlocked
Implications
Connections
90 — full mastery
The first three solid clears 75 — next topic unlocked. All five, applied to something new, clears 90 — full mastery.
Clarity
Explanation← picks here
Background
Implications
Connections
It always picks the lowest open rung — never an advanced one while an earlier rung still needs work.
03 · Investigate

Use AI, then think past it

Some cards send the learner to the AI their family already uses; others provide seed cases inside the lesson. Either way, they bring examples back and answer follow-ups about their own work.

“Ask your AI: Explain how regression guesses a new value, like I’m 12.”

Because the next question refers to their examples, copying a generic chatbot answer is not enough. The AI conversation stays outside Manthika; pasted notes stay on the phone.

An investigation screen where a learner selects seed cases and explains the pattern in their own words.
An ask-your-AI nudge shown inside a live question card.
The appgives a short research task, tied to the lesson
📋 prompt
Your own AIChatGPT, Gemini, Claude — whatever your family already hasthe app never sees this
your paste
The appasks a follow-up about YOUR paste
The question after is about yourpaste, not a generic fact — so copying it into a chatbot won’t get you the answer.
The progress screen showing the 75 floor cleared and the remaining climb toward full mastery at 90.
04 · Prove

Two useful finish lines

At 75, the three core angles are solid and the next topic unlocks. At 90, all five are solid and the learner has applied the idea to a new case. Facts let them move on; transfer proves mastery.

If the same gap stays stuck, the app pauses kindly, saves progress, and invites the learner to reread the exact book page before returning.
Ravi
🏆
Meena
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ClarityBackgroundConnections
Same five angles, two different climbs. Meena's pause is real — the figure doesn't draw a recovery the page doesn't claim.

A confident learner can move quickly to 90. A struggling learner gets a shorter path, retries at the foundation, and stops before frustration takes over.

Why the loop works

Designed around understanding, not screen time

Adaptive from the first minute

A short placement check finds the lowest shaky idea. Strong learners skip ahead; stuck learners step back.

AI is a tool, not the teacher

Learners use the AI their family already has, then return to think with the examples they found.

Mastery requires transfer

Remembering facts can unlock the next topic. Full mastery needs applying the idea somewhere new.

Made for a shared phone

No login, one question per screen, multiple local learners, and progress saved on that device.

Where it is today

One complete lesson, end to end

● Working now

Grade 7 Regression, the full adaptive path, own-AI investigations, local learner profiles, saved progress, real book-page links, and one topic (Adult Numeracy: Fractions to Algebra) live in Hindi, Marathi, and Punjabi too.

○ Next, not hidden

More topics, more languages, cross-device sync, book checkout, and richer support for open answers are still to be built.

The quickest way to understand the loop is to take the first question.

Try the live lesson →