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Prodigy Education

Recommended Ages
Prodigy Math is designed for 1st to 8th grades and Prodigy English for 1st to 6th grades.

Prodigy Math 1st to 8th grades. Prodigy English 1st to 6th

Prodigy is a free, game-based educational platform that makes learning math and English fun, adaptive, and insight-driven. It’s trusted by 800,000+ teachers and played by 20 million+ students each year. It’s the learning tool students actually ask to play and has been voted the #1 online educational game by kids!

In Prodigy Math, students go on quests, meet magical characters, and collect pets while practicing standards-aligned skills for grades 1 through 8. In Prodigy English, students build and explore their own world, with progress tied to ELA skills for grades 1 through 6.

As students play, learning data is captured in a parent dashboard giving parents the ability to track progress and support individual needs. Prodigy’s zero-cost model is funded by optional memberships and in-game purchases, so core learning features remain free.

Memberships come with motivational in-game features to promote engagement and provide parents with the opportunity to set in-game learning goals for their children. State Funding options for homeschoolers are also available (see details below).

Prodigy is available on web, iOS, and Android.

Features
GamifiedVideo GameSelf-PacedOnline

Prodigy is for students in grades 1 through 8 who:
- Experience math anxiety or low enjoyment and need an engaging way to boost confidence
- Are game-motivated and respond to quests, collectibles, and rewards
- Need a skills refresh or a fun new learning challenge


What families love about Prodigy:
- Turning their child’s screen time into safe, productive learning
- Knowing Prodigy offers research-backed, standards-aligned content that complements lesson plans
- Hearing their kids actually ask for more math practice!

Pros

Families love that their kids love using Prodigy. They also love how the game makes learning fun, reduces math anxiety, and builds the confidence to keep practicing.

Cons

Some parents may not like Prodigy's freemium model. This is where all educational content and the basic gameplay experience is provided free of charge, supported by revenue generated from optional parent memberships. Prodigy always looks to carefully balance messages about membership features and options, which allows for about 95% of Prodigy users to learn with our platform at no cost at all.

Yes! This page should go over the Grant Funding programs and Charter Schools we are approved for: https://prodigygame.myshopify.com/

Creating an account with Prodigy is free. An account provides access to game-based educational content for students, and allows parents to track learning progress through data, insights, and reports. Optional paid memberships are also available. Memberships come with motivational in-game features to promote engagement and provide parents with the opportunity to set in-game learning goals for their children. For more information on membership pricing options visit: https://www.prodigygame.com/Memberships/math/

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Prodigy Education
$4.91 USD

Skills

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Math
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ELA

Our mission

To help every student in the world love learning.

Our story

Prodigy began in 2011 when University of Waterloo engineering students Alex Peters and Rohan Mahimker turned a lifelong love of video games into a simple mission: make learning feel as joyful as gaming. They believed great educational resources should be a right, not a privilege, and built Prodigy to open that door for every student, keeping core math and English content free and accessible. What started as a prototype tested in Greater Toronto Area schools is now a global game-based learning platform where millions of kids build skills through adventures, quests, and motivational challenges. The heart has stayed the same: spark confidence, inspire practice, and help every student in the world love learning.

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FAQ: Additional Details about Prodigy Education

On a typical homeschool morning, your child logs into Prodigy Math for a short 25–30 minute block as a colorful fantasy world appears on screen. As your child practices math skills, correct answers unlock in-game rewards. Behind the scenes, Prodigy’s adaptive algorithm keeps questions at the right level so the math feels challenging but doable. While they tap and click through math problems, you open your parent dashboard on your device, glancing at progress. You keep this rhythm through the week—short morning sessions, quick progress checks.

Bonus ideas:
- Use Prodigy as a break between your standard lessons to boost motivation and attention.
- Replace worksheet practice with exciting Prodigy practice for something different.
- Create friendly competition or collaboration between siblings

Create an account on a computer or mobile device. Have your child sign in and start playing. They will be asked standards-aligned questions while they explore and collect rewards. As they play, you will see progress data within the parent dashboard. You will be able to access monthly report cards for an overview of your child's progress.

For more information on integrating Prodigy into homeschooling, visit: https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/how-to-homeschool-with-prodigy

Children can use Prodigy independently. Parent’s/caregivers do not need to be subject-area experts. Their involvement isn’t required, but can be helpful. Setting simple routines (ex: short, regular sessions), checking progress in the parent dashboard, and celebrate milestones can keep motivation high. With the optional membership, parents/caregivers can also set in-game goals and other motivators to support their child’s practice.

A mobile device or computer is required to run the game. Beyond that, there are no prerequisites, however our content is designed for grades 1-8 for Prodigy Math and grades 1-6 for Prodigy English. Children younger than that may find the game too difficult, while children older may not feel challenged enough.

The only way students can interact with each other in Prodigy is via the chat function. To ensure this feature is safe for children and students, only pre-defined sentences that have been deemed safe are able to be sent. Users cannot send whatever they would like, they must type in a phrase they would like to send, and choose from the options available. This has been put in place for both privacy and security reasons.

While Prodigy is free to use, there is a refund policy for those who decide to purchase memberships. This applies if the owner expressly requests a refund of the membership subscription within:

The first 15 days of a monthly term
The first 30 days of a 6-month term
The first 30 days of an annual term
A full refund of fees paid for the most recent term will be granted.

The refund will only be issued to the method of payment selected during your initial purchase of the membership subscription. If you choose to cancel your membership subscription without expressly requesting a refund from Prodigy via a support ticket or chat, a refund will not be granted. After the first 15 days of the most recent monthly term or 30 days of an annual term have elapsed, a refund will not be granted, nor will Prodigy pro-rate a fee charged.

For information regarding refunds requested due to Prodigy’s inability to support your usage of the program technically, please see Prodigy’s Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change without notice.

Students younger than 1st grade may struggle with the level of educational content provided within Prodigy. Otherwise, Prodigy has been designed to be as accessible and flexible as possible for all students and learning types.

Alternative homeschool resources include:

DragonBox Series: DragonBox apps let kids explore algebra and number sense in ways that feel more like solving clever puzzles. Instead of diving straight into symbols and formulas, children manipulate visuals and patterns until the ideas click.

Sum Swamp: Designed for younger learners, this board game focuses on addition and subtraction. Rolling dice and moving across a swamp-themed board helps children build fluency with early operations.

Math Bingo: Math Bingo blends number recognition with quick mental math. It’s a fun way to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division while trying to fill a winning card.

Khan Academy Kids: A free app for ages 2-8, Khan Academy Kids offers many early math activities. Children can practice counting, shapes, and basic operations through colorful animations and playful lessons.

Prime Climb: This colorful board game emphasizes multiplication, division, and prime numbers. Its unique design uses colors to represent factors, giving kids a visual understanding of how numbers connect.

Prodigy recently launched a new Spanish option for our text-to-speech feature, providing additional options for students to hear questions read to them in a language other than English.

- Set aside about 30 minutes a day to make practice a habit
- Link the parent account and use the parent dashboard to track activity and progress and view monthly report cards
- Use the parent app for easy, quick check-ins easy on the go
- To keep motivation up encourage Prodigy use during seasonal in-game events (ex: Pumpkin Fest and Winter Fest)
- Celebrate small wins and learning milestones
- Encourage friendly competition between friends or siblings by setting up mini tournaments
- Create your own student account as a parent and challenge your child to exciting math battles
- With the membership option, parents can set in-game goals and add extra nudges to motivate learners

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Meet Alex Peters and Rohan Mahimker

Alex Peters and Rohan Mahimker are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Prodigy. They created Prodigy in 2011 while studying engineering at the University of Waterloo, driven by a simple idea: make learning feel as joyful as gaming and keep high-quality math and English practice free and accessible for every student. Their engineering background and lifelong passion for video games shaped Prodigy’s adaptive, game-based design, now used by millions of students, parents, and teachers around the world.

Modulo's expert opinion

Our learning specialists give their honest evaluation
ManishaCEO and Founder of Modulo

Prodigy is the rare game-based platform that makes math and literacy practice feel like play while staying adaptive, standards-aligned, and truly motivating.