EdTech-a-thon

July 20 - 22, 2026 • Atlanta, GA

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PR-511

Gamified Math Problem Solving

Problem Description

Getting students to do more frequent, low stakes maths in a gamified way.

Proposed Solution

An incremental style game like https://pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/ but in order to unlock tech or tools you have to solve a maths problem. Once you’ve unlocked the skill it will periodically “break” and to fix it you have to solve another problem. The concept would be the user is “cheating” their homework by getting a bot to do it but the bot is not perfect which requires the user (a student) to show them how it’s done. For a good list of maths skills that would be needed I would recommend https://www.drfrost.org/skilllist.php