Forge Your Own Adventure
The Kryptografima is an exciting online platform allowing students to dive into the pages of Marco the Great and embark on their own journey through mathematics. Using research-backed methods, our digital platform is an engaging approach to mastering the key skills and topics your child needs to succeed.
Mission
Students begin each challenge with a mission, exploring and gathering key information vital for their task.
Missions are story-based, leveraging cognitive science to help students understand new ideas.
Activities
Throughout their journey, players will encounter games, activities, and puzzles, providing a fun and safe space to test new ideas.
Activities include immediate feedback and unlimited play with unique questions.
Debrief
Debriefs allow students a chance to demonstrate their skills, complete competencies, and earn badges for their accomplishments.
Each debrief includes immediate, detailed feedback, and unlimited attempts with new questions.
Quests
PreAlgebra
You've infiltrated the secretive Society for the Abolishment of Numbers. Your goal? Increase your rank and your access to uncover their secrets. Explore The Kryptografima campus to master topics including: Prime Numbers, Integer Operations, Number Sets, Factorization, Algebraic Notation, Variables, Substitution, and Solving Equations.
$25
USD
6 months access
65+ Missions
100+ Interactive games, puzzles, and activities with unlimited play
Missions
Traditional math textbooks provide rules, give examples, then ask students to copy the demonstrated steps again, and again. This method is not just ineffective, it often prevents students from ever truly grasping the concepts. Students spend their time memorizing (these facts fly away on summer vacation before you even have time to board the plane) and completing problems that in the real world are assigned to calculators and computers.
Stories are fun. Stories transport us into a world of adventure and intrigue. Concepts are introduced in memorable ways that make sense and require no memorization of facts or tables while targeting the exact areas of the brain we are trying to develop.
Kryptografima missions leverage storytelling along with autonomy and choice, allowing students to explore new ideas by making intuitive connections to the world around them. Each mission introduces, reinforces, or connects previous understanding to new topics and includes safe spaces for students to try on new ideas, check for understanding, or play with numbers and/or mathematical content.
The Kyrptografima campus.
Activities
Our math games aren't multiple choice questions disguised by overstimulating graphics. Instead, we utilize authentic activities tied directly into the story and the mathematical concepts. Students solve mysteries, work to build Castle Walls taking into account cost and inventory, decipher puzzles, or arrange their team on the field to amplify their power. Each activity increases understanding while also helping students to see how math and numbers impact everything around them.
Debriefs
Students show what they know, completing competencies and earning beautiful badges displaying their accomplishments. Each Debrief offers unlimited attempts with new questions and provides instant, detailed feedback to identify misconceptions and increase understanding. With a mix of traditional applications and novel questions requiring higher-order thinking, completing a Debrief indicates students have mastered the covered content.
