Prodigy can help students struggling with math
Disadvantaged students saw a 38% higher STAAR score with Prodigy use than those without.
Get powerful data insights into your students’ progress as they play Prodigy. See which topics they find challenging, how they perform in assessments and where to find learning gaps – all in just a few clicks.
See how your students perform when they complete a Prodigy assessment, including Assignments and Plans.
Available for Prodigy Math and Prodigy English.
Once your students complete the automatic Placement Test, use its report to get a baseline evaluation of where your students are at by domain and grade level.
Available for Prodigy Math.
Effortlessly monitor students' monthly progress and pinpoint those needing more support, including on the strands in their grade level they find the most challenging.
Available for Prodigy Math.
Get a deep dive into how individual students are performing on strands and skills within their grade level for a selected date range. See what percentage of questions they answered correctly per skill and how much time they spent on it.
Available for Prodigy Math.
See how many questions your students are answering when they play Prodigy, including when they play at home.
Available for Prodigy Math and Prodigy English.
Prodigy's game-based format turns assessments into exciting adventures, replacing test stress and anxiety with fun gameplay that inspires a love of learning.
Made by teachers, Prodigy's educational content is aligned to your standards and covers skills from elementary to middle school grade levels.
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Prodigy is a completely free resource for teachers, designed to support learning and ease classroom budget constraints. Over 800,000 teachers use Prodigy annually at no cost, including access to thousands of standards-aligned questions in math and English.
Offering free in-game educational content enjoyed by millions of students, Prodigy is sustained by optional parent memberships that provide additional gameplay features and promote family engagement.
Yes, Prodigy aligns with school, state, and national standards.
Prodigy Math offers comprehensive coverage for a wide range of curricula in the US, including Common Core, TEKS (Texas), SOL (Virginia), and many more state-specific standards. It also provides coverage for curricula in Canada, Australia, India, and the UK.
Prodigy English currently aligns with Common Core standards for grades 1-6, with more coverage on the way.
For a full breakdown of all the standards and skills Prodigy covers, see our math curriculum coverage and English curriculum coverage pages.
Prodigy Math covers grades 1-8, while Prodigy English is designed for students in grades 1-6. The platform offers content tailored to the curriculum standards for these grade levels.
What students see will depend on whether they are playing Prodigy Math or Prodigy English.
In Prodigy Math, students customize their character's appearance and engage in an immersive storyline with math battles against Prodigy creatures. The math question interface offers video lessons, hint bubbles, and text-to-speech support, along with tools like digital manipulatives. Correct answers progress the game, while incorrect answers result in a missed move. The engaging battle aspect of the game motivates students and builds their math confidence as they answer standards-aligned questions.
In Prodigy English, students immerse themselves in building an online village while mastering curriculum-aligned reading, writing, and language skills. As they explore and collect supplies, students answer standards-aligned questions to earn energy, which is essential for improving their village and progressing in this sandbox-style game.
Prodigy's Placement Test assesses a student's understanding of math, starting from content below their selected grade level and moving up to one grade above. It runs automatically when students start playing Prodigy Math and typically takes between 3-4 sessions to complete. Powered by our adaptive algorithm, question content will present representative strands or domains from the student's expected grade level and self-adjust to identify their strengths and struggle areas. All your students need to do is have fun exploring the world of Prodigy Math and taking part in math battles.
You can track Placement Test completion progress via email updates or by checking into your teacher portal. Once complete, you'll be notified and the results will be available inside your "Placement Test Results" report in your teacher portal.
Yes. As well as printing reports, you can also use our co-teaching tool to let other teachers see your class, assign work and view student reports. Co-teachers must have their own Prodigy teacher account, be in the same school as you and use the same curriculum.
Parents can sign up for parent accounts, which comes with free features like a monthly report card. Your teacher portal includes a welcome letter to help make connecting parents quick and easy!
Yes — and we’re working every day to make it as effective as possible.
Our team of certified teachers makes sure that all of our questions align with best practices in education, leveraging effective pedagogical approaches.
We’ve conducted research and written internal papers to support our mission of motivation-first digital game-based learning and learner-centric pedagogical approaches.
We understand the critical importance of keeping students safe online, and we've prioritized privacy, safety, and security features within the Prodigy Education platform. Although Prodigy does not require a Data Privacy Agreement, we're pleased to share that we are members of Access 4 Learning / Student Data Privacy Consortium and use a form of the National Data Privacy Agreement. We have also received certification from iKeepSafe®, confirming our compliance with FERPA, COPPA, and CSPC regulations.
When students play Prodigy Math and Prodigy English, no personal information or inappropriate language can be shared with or seen by other users.
Learn more about our Privacy Policy or about Data Privacy Agreements.
