How Professor Paws works
Real homework goes in. Your child gets one calm step at a time — and does the thinking themselves.
Three steps
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1. Add the work
Type, paste, or photograph the schoolwork your child was assigned — spelling words, the assigned math, or a home reading passage. A photo isn't turned into answers: Professor Paws reads the task and builds guided steps for your child to work through.
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2. Work one step at a time
The puppy gives one spoken or visual instruction at a time. Help can include a hint, a smaller step, something to move, and a worked example when needed. Work completed with help stays distinct from independent work.
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3. See where help was needed
You can see recorded practice and where support was needed. The parent view distinguishes independent work from work completed with help.
In maths: the learning progression many schools use, continued at home
In maths, this can start with something your child can move on screen — blocks to group, a clock to set, a fraction to shade. The available hints and worked examples help them work through the task; recorded assistance is not presented as independent skill.
Built around the work school actually sends home
Professor Paws doesn't replace the teacher, the reading book, or the homework sheet. It helps your child understand and practice that work at home:
- Weekly spelling words — hear the whole word and its sound-spelling parts, trace and write it, and meet it again over the week.
- Assigned math — the exact table or skill that was assigned. Column arithmetic, times tables, division, fractions and telling the time are taught with something your child moves before the numbers; others are worked step by step.
- Home reading — the passage your child was assigned, or a short practice story, one page at a time and read aloud on request, followed by questions that send them back to the text.
Designed with different ways of learning in mind
Professor Paws is designed for different ways of learning: one step at a time, no timers, and no penalty for a wrong answer.
That is a design intent, not a promise. Professor Paws is not a diagnosis tool and not a treatment, and we don't make claims about outcomes — it is a calmer way through the homework your child already has.
Who it's for
Professor Paws may be a good fit if your child finds homework overwhelming, shuts down before starting, rushes just to be done, or needs instructions broken into smaller steps — with or without a formal diagnosis.
What it is not
- Not a replacement for school, teachers, reading books, or tutoring
- Not a diagnosis tool
- Not an answer generator
- Not open-ended AI chat
- Not built around streaks, timers, or leaderboards