Prodigy's logo since their redesign in September 2020
Prodigy Math Game for kids, often also referred to as Prodigy Math or PMG, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) dedicated to teaching math curriculum, created and published by SMARTEACHER Inc, doing business as Prodigy Education.[1]
Premise[]
- Main article: Tutorial
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The loading screen within Prodigy Math
The player plays as a young wizard prodigy with noticeably great potential to learn magic. Noot, the wizard's fairy guide from the Academy, helps the player through the tutorial where they will choose their starter pet—each representing a different element. After entering the Academy, the player discovers the Puppet Master (as well as his sidekick, Pippet), a misguided entity who plots to rule the island and restore Shadow magic's "rightful" glory.
As the player levels up and progresses through the plot, they must overcome more challenges and enter into new adventures, such as Crystal Caverns, Elemental Zones, The Archives and more while collecting items, gear, and currencies—all of which while the wizard and their pets that the player rescued gain new spells to use in battle. One way of learning spells are using different wands, each corresponding to different spells.
Educational Goals[]
Alexander giving his speech
Prodigy Math Game is designed to make learning more enjoyable for children of grades one through eight.[2][3] However, they do not have to be in these grades to play Prodigy. It features benefits for teachers and parents, such as accounts that parents can use to manage their children's in-game account, and accounts for teachers to manage their classroom.[1]
A co-CEO of Prodigy, Alexander Peters, gave a speech detailing how Prodigy's educational system works: it operates through an AI (as well as other technology)-based mastery model that defeats textbooks by being heavily personalized and adaptive to the students, while keeping them engaged.
Reception[]
Canadian investor at a Ted Talk examining Prodigy's polygraph technology.
Currently, over 24 million people play Prodigy Math Game.[4] It was originally released in 2011[5] on June 22nd[6] and sold to private schools, then released to the public and became free to play on 9 October 2015.[7] Early versions of the game featured polygraph technology similar to a lie detector that were used to detect anxiety in the student and modify the given math questions appropriately. [8]
Prodigy Math Game has an estimated 500 employees.[9] The current CEOs are Rohan Mahimker and Alexander Peters.[9]
Recognitions[]
Since the inception of Prodigy Math Game, the game itself won several awards and received numerous recognitions. The main page of Prodigy Education's website displays icons representing some victories, including its entry in the Mom's Choice Awards list published in March 2023[10], its "2022 winner" status from the National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA)[11], its "Safe For Child Certified" status, and the "Cool Tool Award" under four categories listed on the EdTech Awards 2022 page.[12]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Prodigy: What is it? Where do I start? on Zendesk
- ↑ Your Sneak Peek into Prodigy's Next Chapter (Coming August 2020) on Zendesk
- ↑ Web Archive of Prodigy's Previous Homepage
- ↑ Prodigy Game Has Over One Million Daily Players on Digital.
- ↑ Prodigy Education (formerly Prodigy Game) Recognized as one of Canada's Top 3 Fastest Growing Companies on PR Newswire
- ↑ Tweet by @ProdigyGame
- ↑ Review of Prodigy Math Game on SensorTower
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/m_pitches/smarteacher
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Summary of Prodigy Math Game on LinkedIn
- ↑ Mom's Choice Awards, March 2023
- ↑ National Parenting Product Awards
- ↑ EdTech Awards 2022