Jugnu Jar
Collecting bright minds, one spark at a time
Jugnu Jar is a free learning app for children aged four to nine: chess, coding, maths,
stories, puzzles, secret codes, the states of India, Telugu and Hindi. No adverts, no
account, nothing to install.
It runs in any browser and keeps working offline once it has loaded. Nothing a child does
leaves their own device — with one exception: the Telugu rhymes have a button that plays
the song from YouTube, and nothing is fetched from there unless somebody presses it.
What children learn here
- Chess — the whole game, from meeting each piece to playing a match
against the computer. Short lessons on how every piece moves, check, checkmate,
castling and promotion; one-hundred-and-thirty-two puzzles; and a game with hints that can be switched off
one by one as they stop being needed.
- Coding — children type simple commands and a turtle walks them out,
drawing the shape as it goes. It covers the first real ideas in programming: putting
instructions in order, repeating them with a loop, and teaching the turtle a brand new
word of your own.
- Maths — number work for the first standard: tens and ones, adding and
taking away up to twenty, skip counting, Indian money, and telling the time.
- Stories — forty-eight stories to read or be read aloud, half about
growing up and half about how the world works, each with a few questions at the end.
- Think & Solve — balance scales, picture logic, patterns, odd one
out, fold and punch, deduction grids, a river to get everyone across, sudoku with
pictures, spotting a shape that has been turned rather than flipped, and finding the
heavier ball with a balance. Most of it needs no reading at all.
- Secret Codes — number codes, picture codes, the Caesar wheel and
Morse, with a key that reads in the direction of the work.
- India — all twenty-eight states and eight union territories, with
their capitals, which part of the country each one is in, and something worth
remembering about every single one. Each is shown lit up on a map of India, so a child
learns where a place is and not only what it is called.
- Telugu — the vowels and consonants of the Telugu alphabet, with the
sound of each letter and a word that uses it, plus traditional rhymes a child can follow
in Telugu, in English letters and in meaning, whether or not they read the script.
- Hindi — the same for the Hindi alphabet.
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