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If a student struggles with a concept, following questions will backfill the necessary skills.Īs the student works through the math problems, many lessons (but not all) include virtual manipulatives to help solve the problem: As they play, question difficulty is increased or decreased depending upon their answers and facility with the skills. Students complete math questions to level up (become more powerful) and ultimately defeat Crios, Prodigy’s main antagonist.īased on the student’s profile and an invisible diagnostic run during the preliminary tutorial, students are placed at a math level. Prodigy is a free, adaptive math game for grades 1-7 that integrates Common Core or Ontario math into a role-playing game using a Pokemon-style wizardry theme. Here’s one I think meets all these basic requirements as well as makes students want to practice their math:

aligned with Blooms Taxonomy, Common Core, ISTE, or other state/national/international standards.

doesn’t collect personal information other than user credentials or data required to operate the app.

easily applied to a variety of educational environments.

intuitive to use with a short learning curve.

few ads–and those that are there do not take up a significant portion of the screen.

stand the test of time–do students stay engaged even after playing it over and over.

offer levels that become increasingly more difficult, providing differentiation for student needs.

are not distracting or overwhelming in colors, music, or activity.

offer compelling content (this is subjective ‘compelling’ varies teacher-to-teacher and student-to-student).

support the ‘4 C’s’–creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration.

How do you decide what is best for your class? Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website:

Each one proclaim s they have the way to teach students while having fun, in ways that are aligned with state and national standards. There are a lot of online math systems to help students through one of school’s toughest subjects (if not science). Websites–for teachers to build websites.