British Columbia rebuilt its curriculum in 2016 and ended up with the least American math sequence in Canada. There are no standard codes anywhere; the content standards are plain sentences. Report cards use a four-point proficiency scale instead of percentages. Financial literacy is a required strand every single year from Kindergarten to Grade 9. And fraction arithmetic, the thing American games drill hardest from Grade 4 on, does not start until Grade 8. Nearly every math game on the internet is aligned to the American Common Core, which disagrees with all of it.
Full disclosure before anything else: this is Infinilearn's blog, we make the game this post is about, and the reason the post exists is that we just built BC alignment. Judge accordingly.
Why BC's sequence breaks American games
Common Core teaches fraction addition in Grade 4, multiplication in Grade 5, and division in Grade 6. BC teaches ordering and equivalence in those years and saves the arithmetic for Grade 8, where "operations with fractions" arrives all at once. So an American-aligned game hands a BC Grade 4 student three years of arithmetic their teacher has not taught, then acts surprised when the kid decides math games are hard. It runs the other way too: integer operations land in Grade 7 in BC, all four at once, and BC's Grade 9 is a deliberately compact year (rational numbers, exponents, polynomials, linear relations, and not much else) that an American Algebra 1 sequence buries in content BC saves for Grade 10.
Then there is the strand no American game has at all: financial literacy, every year. Making change in Grade 4, budgets in Grades 5 and 6, financial percentage (sales tax, tips, discounts) in Grade 7, best buys and unit prices in Grade 8, simple interest and banking in Grade 9. In a Common Core game those problems either do not exist or float grade-less; in BC they are the last bullet of every grade's content list.
The BC curriculum, actually supported
Infinilearn is a free browser-based fantasy RPG for Grades 4 to 9 where every attack in battle fires by solving a real math problem. When a teacher sets a class to the British Columbia Curriculum, practice follows BC's own placement: fraction arithmetic waits for Grade 8, integers for Grade 7, and the money problems land in the grades where BC's financial literacy strand puts them, sales tax in Grade 7, best buys in Grade 8, simple interest in Grade 9.
Because BC publishes no codes, our dashboards do not invent any. Teachers see each skill in the standard's own wording, the way the curriculum documents and your report-card comments already talk. The coverage view is equally plain about gaps: we currently cover 82 of the 91 content standards for Grades 4 to 9, and the dashboard lists every one we do not, so you can check the claim instead of taking a vendor's word for it.
What about everyone else?
- Prodigy. Canadian-built, genuinely good for young kids, and we say so every time we write about it. But as of September 2026, the curriculum list on Prodigy's own standards page shows Ontario as its Canadian alignment. A BC classroom playing it is practising an American sequence with an Ontario label, fraction drills in Grade 4 and all. If that changes, good; BC students would be better off for it.
- IXL. Has real BC-aligned skill lists, which is a genuine advantage and worth crediting. It is drill practice with no game layer; effective for the kid who will tolerate it, and many will not.
- Khan Academy. Free and excellent, organized as American courses. Works for the self-driven kid; does nothing for the one who needs the math smuggled inside a boss fight.
For parents
The curriculum toggle is a classroom setting, so at home the honest advice is simpler: pick your child's actual grade, and the adaptive engine, which tracks accuracy topic by topic and sends more of the weak ones into battles, does the work. The whole game is free with no ads and nothing paywalled in-game; premium (US$9.99 a month, and yes, US dollars, sorry) adds cosmetics and a deeper parent dashboard. Chat is preset phrases only, and it runs in any browser, including on an iPad. If your child's teacher runs a BC-aligned class, the class practice follows everything above automatically.
Bottom line
BC spent a decade building a curriculum that trusts teachers, names no codes, and teaches money like it matters. A math game aligned to it should do the same: follow BC's grades, speak BC's wording, and put the sales-tax problems in Grade 7 where your year plan says they go. Ours does now, and the dashboard will show you exactly how much of the curriculum that claim covers.