🌐 The test itself is currently administered in French only — this is a deliberate choice, not an oversight. The instructions read aloud to the child are part of the standardized protocol, and the norms come from French-speaking children, so a translation could not be scored against them. Read more about why (page in French; your browser or a translation tool can help).
About
A test designed for early screening
MathEval screens for math learning disabilities (dyscalculia), able to distinguish children in difficulty from typically developing peers. Like other tests such as Tedi-Math, Numerical, Zareki-R, or Examath, it draws on neuropsychology and cognitive psychology.
It is currently normed from the third year of kindergarten through second grade (ages 5 to 8).
Reviewed by an independent study. MathEval appears in a critical inventory of French-language math assessment tools (Lafay & Cattini, 2018), which scores each tool against a set of psychometric quality criteria. MathEval meets 43% of them — ahead of most tools reviewed, behind Examath 8-15 (67%) and Tedi-Math Grands (51%). The authors note that few tools, of any kind, currently meet these standards.
What sets MathEval apart
- Expert system The software determines each question from the child's own answers — two children of the same age (almost) never take the same test.
- Automatic report At the end of the test, a detailed narrative report is generated automatically, along with normed results (percentiles, standardized scores).
- Research-based Built on McCloskey's modular model and Dehaene's triple-code model, with an analytic per-subtest evaluation.
- Free and open Released under a Creative Commons license.
Interested in an English version?
Adapting MathEval to English is not a translation project — some of the test's items rely on quirks specific to French number words, and its norms come from French-speaking children. A proper adaptation means redesigning those items for English and collecting new normative data from English-speaking children — a research project, not a text edit. It is not off the table: the author is open to it, ideally together with a university or clinical team who could help with norming. See the contact page (in French) to get in touch.
Author: Marc Heremans, school psychologist (ULB), former director of the Centre PMS libre d'Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.