I was impressed! The gameplay is kitsch (think Pokemon) but is fast, smooth and addictive. however, despite this he approached another hour on the game that day. So my son complained about how he can’t believe I gave money to a stranger on the internet and that how he’s going to have wait at least another 8 days to get the upgrade which will get him more coins, armour, pets etc. The Group Buy rate for Prodigy Game was $14 for the whole year. I’ve bought a few things in recent months this way (including a fab story app and a typing app). I’m happy to pay for educational stuff BUT I’ve also recently discovered the world of Group Buys – where a group of parents club together (usually on FB Groups) and get a discounted rate on a program. Now the full price is $8.99 a month paid monthly or $4.99 a month paid up front for the year. The following day my son played for an hour and declared he needed the paid version. Each question has a built in hint which gives a brief explanation for how to solve that type of question but realistically students need to have studied the topic previously as the hints are brief and quite general or have a parent on hand to help them. He spent 20 mins scoffing about how rubbish the gameplay was but then voluntarily came back to it later on in the day and played for another 30 mins, even tackling hated (for him) topics like long multiplication and decimal subtraction and learning new topics such as mean, mode and median. I’d heard others rave about Prodigy Math but I’m not usually a fan of gamified math, as often kids spend too much time playing inside the game and not enough time “mathing” OR kids just think the games are lame because the game play is not as good as whatever the latest big game studio thing is they like playing.Īfter trying a few other programs – none of which impressed my son – I finally got round to setting him up on Prodigy Math. So I decided to use this as a chance to test some online math programs in the meantime. He loves it but the delivery of our next book had been delayed.

Long version – I use Life of Fred math with my home schooled 10 year old. Prodigy Math Game Review – Short version – I gave money to a stranger on the internet for an upgrade to Prodigy Math game, a math program that I wasn’t initially a fan of and for something that I already had the free version of.

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