![]() ![]() ![]() Is it effective? A recent study by Rohan Mahimker compared students’ EQAO results in Ontario for 2014 in Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. The idea was to get kids addicted to math games, just as Rohan and Alex were addicted to Pokemon as kids. What’s great about it is that it adapts to each individual student by running a diagnostic test when they first start playing, and then scaling the difficulty of the game based on their progress. ![]() It’s a free online and engaging math video game that aligns with the Ontario school curriculum for grades 1-8. However, a shared childhood of ineffective math worksheets and a common passion for education proved to be enough to convert 2 students into entrepreneurs and pursue the creation of Prodigy. Rohan Mahimker & Alex Peters started off working on a 4 th year engineering project at the University of Waterloo with divergent career paths on the horizon after graduation.
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