Pokémon to Prodigy: How Game-Based Learning Captivated 20 Million Students with Rohan Mahimker from Edtech Insiders

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Pokémon to Prodigy: How Game-Based Learning Captivated 20 Million Students with Rohan Mahimker

46 minutes Posted Nov 17, 2025 at 1:00 pm.

Rohan on turning childhood gaming inspiration into Prodigy’s origin story

How “motivation first” drives deeper math engagement

The adaptive algorithm that personalizes every student’s learning path

Innovating the freemium model to keep learning free for teachers and schools

Inside the Prodigy State Challenge: 4.2M students and 70,000 schools

Using AI for smarter content creation and future tutoring potential

What’s next: expanding beyond math to English and global game-based learning

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Send us Fan Mail Rohan Mahimker is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Prodigy Education, a global leader in digital game-based learning. Rohan launched Prodigy alongside his fellow Co-Founder and Co-CEO Alex Peters in 2011. Today, Prodigy’s flagship math game is used by more than 20 million 1st-8th Grade students and is one of the most popular supplemental classroom tools in the United States. 💡 5 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode: How a university project evolved into one of the world’s most popular...

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