Prodigy Math teaches math through a fantasy adventure game, and its questions cover more than 1,500 skills for grades 1 to 8, all matched to school curricula. Every question your child answers is picked for their level, so the game adjusts as they learn, and every math question in the game is free.
What skills does Prodigy Math cover
Prodigy Math covers more than 1,500 math skills across grades 1 to 8, with more than 45,000 questions in its question bank. The skills follow the math standards used in schools, including Common Core, TEKS and SOL, and Prodigy covers curricula in the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia.
The important point for parents is that all of this educational content is free. A paid membership adds extra pets, gear, Magicoin and science content, but it does not unlock extra math skills. A child on the free plan answers the same curriculum questions as a child on a paid plan.
The skills cover the full range of school math: number sense and operations, fractions, decimals, geometry, measurement, data and graphs, and early algebra. As your child moves up a grade, the game moves with them, from counting and simple addition in the early grades to equations and geometry in the later grades.
Skill areas by school stage
Prodigy groups its skills by grade, and each grade builds on the one before it. The exact topics follow your region’s curriculum, so the list below shows the typical topics for each stage, not a fixed list for every country.
Grades 1 to 3: the foundations
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.
Grades 4 to 6: building fluency
Multiplication and division facts, multi digit multiplication, fractions and decimals, angles, area and perimeter, volume and graphing. Children start to work with ratios, integers and simple expressions, and to solve problems with more than one step.
Grades 7 to 8: getting ready for high school math
Proportional relationships, rational numbers, probability, circles, linear expressions, slope and intercepts, systems of equations, scientific notation, square roots and the Pythagorean theorem. The questions here ask for reasoning, not just recall.
How adaptive questions work
Prodigy does not give every child the same questions. When your child first plays, a placement test sets their starting level. After that, the game watches every answer.
When your child answers correctly, the next questions get a little harder. When they answer wrong, the game offers questions at the same level or a little easier, so they can practise the skill again instead of getting stuck. This is how the game keeps your child in the right challenge zone: hard enough to learn, easy enough to keep playing.
The difficulty also adjusts inside a single battle. A correct answer powers a spell, and a wrong answer means a missed move, so the game is always measuring what your child can do right now, not what they could do last month.
How teachers and parents use the skills
Teachers can choose exactly which skills their students practise. From the teacher dashboard, a teacher sets an assignment for a skill, and the game serves questions on that skill during play. This is how a teacher turns Prodigy into homework that matches the week’s lessons.
Parents see the same picture from the other side. The parent dashboard shows which skills your child has been working on, how many questions they answered, and where they are struggling. If the same skill keeps showing up as a weak spot, that is the skill to focus on next.
Reports in both dashboards break progress down by skill, so you can see strengths and gaps instead of only a total score. That makes it easy to talk to the teacher about one specific area, rather than math in general.
Where to see the full skill list
Prodigy publishes its full skill coverage on its own website, on its math curriculum standards page and its skills page. You can look up the skills for your child’s grade and your region’s standards there, and check exactly which topics the game covers for that grade.
If you are comparing Prodigy with another program, that skills page is the place to check. The number of skills has grown over time: older Prodigy materials said 1,400 skills, and the current curriculum page says more than 1,500. Always check the current page, because the coverage keeps expanding.
Tip: if your child keeps getting the same type of question wrong, check the parent dashboard to see which skill it is, then ask the teacher to assign extra practice on that skill, or make it the focus of the next play session.
Frequently asked questions
How many skills does Prodigy Math cover?
More than 1,500 math skills for grades 1 to 8, according to Prodigy’s own curriculum standards page. The game has more than 45,000 questions across those skills.
Are all the math questions in Prodigy free?
Yes. Every math question, skill and assessment in Prodigy Math is free. A paid membership adds extra pets, gear, Magicoin and science content, but it does not change the math questions.
What standards does Prodigy follow?
Prodigy aligns its math questions to school standards including Common Core, TEKS and SOL, and covers curricula in the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia.
How does Prodigy know my child’s level?
A placement test sets the starting level when your child first plays. After that, the game adapts question by question, getting harder after correct answers and easier after wrong ones.
Can a teacher choose which skills my child practises?
Yes. A teacher can set assignments for specific skills from the teacher dashboard, and the game will serve questions on those skills during play.