Goblins
Ages 5-17 · paid · AI Product · goblinsapp.com ↗
Goblins is an AI math support tool that lets students speak, draw, or type their thinking and get live help back. In classroom use, teachers can assign work, monitor struggle points, and even clone their own voice/avatar into the support flow. The pitch is faster intervention and stronger confidence, not independent open-ended math exploration.
We've reviewed Goblins against our 9-literacy developmental framework. The main growth opportunity: confidence note: public evidence is thin and mostly vendor-authored. This package should be read as provisional.
Strengths & gaps
Strengths
- ● Goblins may reduce the friction of asking for help. Speaking or drawing math is more natural than typing equations into a rigid box.
- ● The strongest likely upside is keeping students from stalling out. The whole product is built around just-in-time support.
Gaps
- ○ Confidence note: public evidence is thin and mostly vendor-authored. This package should be read as provisional.
- ○ Goblins does not clearly build curiosity, creativity, or purpose from the current public materials.
- ○ The relationship layer is simulated. A teacher-cloned avatar may feel personal, but it isn't the same as real human connection.
Detailed scores
How Goblins performs on each of the 9 literacies in our framework.
Doing
— 0 of 3 Strong
Goblins gives students a more natural way to show what they know. That matters. But the system still controls the support sequence and next steps.
The product's best case is helping a child keep going when stuck. That can matter a lot in math. The evidence for how well it works is still mostly company-authored.
Goblins claims to adjust to student level and needs in real time. That likely improves fit. It is less clear how much adaptability practice the child, rather than the software, is actually doing.
Thinking
— 0 of 3 Strong
Goblins is about getting unstuck and building confidence. It is not obviously designed to make children wander, ask new questions, or explore.
There is no meaningful creative layer in the public evidence. Goblins is a support tool.
If the Socratic questioning works as described, it can support reasoning better than answer-giving would. The public evidence is not yet strong enough to score this higher.
Being
— 0 of 3 Strong
Teacher-cloned voices and avatars are meant to feel relational. But they are still simulations of relationship, not actual human exchange.
Goblins may help students recover from frustration by providing help quickly. That supports regulation in the moment, even if the product does not explicitly teach the skill.
The public materials focus on confidence, support, and growth. They do not tie math effort to values or contribution.
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- Product goblinsapp.com
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Reviewed by New Literacies
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