Prodigy Math is built for grades 1 to 8, and the game changes as your child moves up. The questions follow your child’s grade, the difficulty adapts to their answers, and you can change the grade from the parent dashboard if it is set wrong.
How Prodigy sets your child’s grade
When your child first plays Prodigy Math, a placement test works out their skill and grade level. The game does not simply trust the grade you typed in at sign up. It asks questions, watches the answers, and places your child where the questions are challenging but doable.
That starting point matters, because everything after it builds on it. If the placement is right, your child gets questions that teach. If it is wrong, the game feels either boring or impossible, and most grade problems in Prodigy come back to this one setting.
Grades 1 and 2
In the early grades, Prodigy focuses on number sense. Typical topics are counting, addition and subtraction, place value, shapes, patterns, telling time and simple fractions. Children learn to work with numbers up to the hundreds, to spot odd and even numbers, and to read simple graphs.
The questions are short and visual, with pictures and objects to count. The game moves slowly here on purpose, because these are the skills every later grade depends on.
Grades 3 and 4
By grade 3, the game adds multiplication and division facts, fractions, area and perimeter, and telling time to the minute. Grade 4 brings multi digit multiplication, long division, fractions and decimals, angles and symmetry.
This is the stage where children move from counting to calculating. The questions get longer, and the game starts asking for more than one step to reach an answer.
Grades 5 and 6
Grade 5 adds fractions with different denominators, decimals, volume, graphing and the order of operations. Grade 6 brings ratios, integers, expressions and equations, coordinate graphing and statistics.
The jump from grade 5 to grade 6 is one of the biggest in the game. Children meet negative numbers and simple algebra for the first time, and the questions start to look like the ones they will see in middle school.
Grades 7 and 8
Grade 7 covers proportional relationships, rational numbers, probability, circles and linear expressions. Grade 8 covers slope and intercepts, systems of equations, scientific notation, square roots, the Pythagorean theorem and functions.
These are the grades where Prodigy most looks like school math, because the questions ask for reasoning and working, not just recall. A child who finishes grade 8 content in Prodigy has covered the ground needed for high school algebra.
The topics above are the typical topics for each grade under standard curricula. The exact skills Prodigy serves depend on your region’s curriculum, and the full list for each grade is on Prodigy’s own skills page.
How difficulty adapts inside a grade
The grade is only the starting point. Inside a grade, the game keeps adjusting. Correct answers lead to harder questions, and wrong answers lead to questions at the same level or a little easier, so your child can practise a weak skill again instead of falling behind.
This means two children in the same grade can see very different questions. One might be racing ahead into the next grade’s topics, while the other is still consolidating the basics. Both are using the game correctly.
How to change the grade
If the grade looks wrong, you can change it from your parent dashboard. Sign in to your parent account, open your child’s profile, and update the grade in the settings. The game will adjust the questions to match the new grade.
One warning: if your child’s grade is set by their teacher through a school class, talk to the teacher before you change it. A teacher sets the grade to match the class, and changing it at home can put your child out of step with their classwork.
Tip: if the questions look too easy or too hard for more than a few sessions, check the grade in the parent dashboard first, because a wrong grade setting is the most common cause.
Frequently asked questions
Which grades does Prodigy Math cover?
Grades 1 to 8. Prodigy English, the separate game from the same company, covers grades 1 to 6.
How does Prodigy choose my child’s grade?
A placement test sets the starting skill and grade level when your child first plays, and the game keeps adapting the difficulty from there.
Can I change my child’s grade?
Yes, from your parent dashboard. Open your child’s profile and update the grade in the settings. If a teacher set the grade through a school class, talk to the teacher first.
What if my child is ahead or behind their grade?
The game adapts inside the grade, so a child who is ahead will see harder questions and a child who is behind will see easier ones. If the gap is large, change the grade in the parent dashboard to match where your child actually is.
Does the grade affect the game story?
No. The story, zones and quests stay the same. Only the math questions change with the grade, so your child keeps their wizard, pets and progress when the grade changes.