My students really enjoyed playing Prodigy & I was able to individualize instruction for my students by assigning the skills each student needed to practice in a timely and efficient manner using the planner tool.

My Take

I used Prodigy to motivate my students to finish assignments in a timely manner. If all their work was complete, they could play Prodigy in their spare class time. Students worked hard to finish classroom assignments because they wanted to have time in class to play Prodigy. As they were playing Prodigy I was looking at reports and finding gaps or weaknesses that I needed to address. It was difficult for students to realize that I could not see what level they were on in the game. What I was observing was their accuracy on certain math skills and standards, and I could not see that they were on level 78. However, I used their excitement about being on level 78 to motivate them to do more math problems to achieve higher levels in their game. The gaming side of Prodigy motivated my students to practice math more than any other tools I had used prior to using Prodigy.