Math Playground

Name

Math Playground

Legal name

Math Playground LLC

Website

https://mathplayground.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Technology / K-6 Math Learning Platform

NAICS

All Other Schools and Instruction (61169), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Math Games, Puzzles & Recreational Math Programs (EDAMAEAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Math & Science Interactive Learning Platforms (STEM Core) (EDAFANAH), Math & STEM Learning Technology (incl. Coding/Robotics Platforms) (EDAJAMAG), Online Math Enrichment Platforms & Courses (EDAMAEAF)

Keywords

• K-6 math education
• Educational games platform
• Logic puzzles for kids
• Math learning website
• Classroom math resources

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Advertising Revenue: The free version of Math Playground is supported by contextual advertising from third-party ad networks. Ads are child-directed and non-personalized, compliant with COPPA. This allows the platform to provide educational content at no cost to visitors.
2. Classroom Subscription: Subscription plan for teachers providing ad-free access to the entire game library, maximum 50 students per classroom plan. Single username/password for class, no individual student logins required.
3. Family Subscription: Premium ad-free plan for households, particularly targeting homeschool families. Single login for the whole family with full access to over 500 math and logic games.
4. School/District Subscriptions: Math Playground Plus domain offers subscription plans specifically designed for schools and districts, providing broader institutional access.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Math Playground operates a K-6 web-based educational platform delivering hundreds of interactive math games, logic puzzles, visual modeling tools, and printable teacher resources. The platform follows a proprietary Thinking Paths methodology (Explore, Model, Practice, Solve) and is offered through a freemium ad-supported model, with paid Classroom, Family, and Math Playground Plus subscription plans for schools, districts, and households.

Product overview

Math Playground is a K-6 math education platform offering hundreds of learning activities through purposeful play. The core platform (mathplayground.com) provides Math Games, Logic Lab puzzles, Math Stories with Thinking Blocks visual modeling, and Brain Boosts. The Thinking Paths methodology (Explore, Model, Practice, Solve) guides students through mathematical thinking. Math Playground Plus serves schools via a separate domain subscription. Two subscription tiers serve distinct needs: Classroom Plan (up to 50 students with single login) and Focused Family Plan (Homeschool Edition, ad-free household access). Key product families include Fraction Forest (multi-part fraction games with Fargo and Denny), Thinking Blocks (visual word problem modeling tools), and Building Bridges (addition/multiplication/fractions games). Supporting resources include Teacher's Guides with Common Core alignment, printable Reflectagons for classroom reflection, and interactive tools (Multiplication Chart, Hundreds Chart, Pattern Blocks, Geoboard). The platform is ad-supported for free users with COPPA-compliant contextual advertising through AdMetricsPro.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Thinking Blocks: A math modeling tool where students use colorful blocks to build models of word problems, illustrating concepts like comparing quantities and parts of a whole.
• Puzzle Playground
• Reflectagons
• Math Playground Plus

Products and services

• Math Playground (Core Platform) The K-6 math website serving as the primary platform with hundreds of learning activities including math games, logic puzzles, word problems, and interactive tools. Features the Thinking Paths methodology (Explore, Model, Practice, Solve) to build mathematical thinking through purposeful play.
• Math Playground Plus Subscription plan for schools and districts hosted on a dedicated domain (mathplaygroundplus.com), offering enhanced features and management capabilities for institutional use.
• Classroom Plan Subscription for one teacher and up to 50 students providing ad-free learning experience with access to the entire game library. Single class username/password without individual student logins required.
• Focused Family Plan (Homeschool Edition) Homeschool Edition subscription providing ad-free, distraction-free access with over 500 carefully curated math and logic games. No personal data collected from children.
• Math Games Collection Collection of math games organized by grade level (K-6) and topic including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals with multiplayer racing options.
• Math Stories (Word Problems with Thinking Blocks) Word problem modeling tool featuring Thinking Blocks with TB Junior, TB Addition, TB Multiplication, TB Fractions, and TB Ratios for visual problem-solving.
• Logic Lab Collection of 125+ logic puzzles and brain teasers including Red Block Returns, Jelly Slice, Slydrs, Zippy Boxes, and Animalines that develop spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Thinking Blocks Visual math modeling tool using colored blocks (TB Junior, TB Addition, TB Multiplication, TB Fractions, TB Ratios) to help students build bar models and solve word problems. Includes a modeling tool for teachers to illustrate problems on interactive whiteboards.
• Fraction Forest Series Multi-part game series teaching fractions including Unit Fractions, Equal Fractions, Adding Fractions, and corresponding playground practice areas. Features characters Fargo and Denny exploring woodland environments.
• Building Bridges Fractions Game for adding fractions practice featuring block trading mechanics to teach fraction concepts, part of the Building Bridges series.
• Unit Fractions Playground Fraction Forest Part 3 playground environment where students practice unit fraction concepts, accompanied by a Teacher's Guide.
• Shuttle Mission Pro Algebraic reasoning game for grades 5-6 where students evaluate expressions at specific values of their variables using parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions.
• Drift Boss - Official Math Playground Edition Popular skill game with simple controls where a car drives automatically; press/hold spacebar to drift right, release to drift left. The Official Math Playground Edition includes problem-solving worksheets and reflection activities.
• Puzzle Playground Companion site hosting games migrated from Math Playground, including various logic puzzles and skill games that require all games to load properly.
• Teacher's Guides Printable teaching guides for classroom use connecting games to Common Core standards. Includes lesson plans, reflection questions, and Common Core alignment documentation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Thinking Blocks teaches millions of students around the world how to model and solve word problems
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AdMetricsPro (Quantum Demand - Kids)coreTechnology or IntegrationPrimary advertising partner providing COPPA-compliant contextual advertising for the child-directed educational site. Collects limited information to support contextual ad delivery only.
• RevCatchcoreTechnology or IntegrationManages subscription data including email addresses and payment details for Classroom and Family subscription plans.
• DonorsChoose.orgminorOthersMath Playground has helped fund hundreds of classroom projects through DonorsChoose.org, demonstrating community commitment and educational support.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Zearn: Zearn is a widely adopted K-5 math curriculum-connected learning platform used by schools and districts, sitting in the same institutional supplemental math category as Math Playground Plus.
• DreamBox Learning: DreamBox is an adaptive K-8 math platform sold primarily to schools and districts, broader and more analytics-focused than Math Playground but competing for the same supplemental math budget at the institutional level.

Direct peers

• Prodigy Education: Prodigy operates a freemium gamified math platform for grades 1-8 with placement, adaptive difficulty, and both family and school/district subscriptions — the closest direct peer in business model, target K-6 audience, and product format to Math Playground.
• Khan Academy: Khan Academy provides free K-12 educational content including math, with practice, videos, and a teacher tools layer, competing for the same student and teacher attention with a foundation-funded free offering.
• IXL Learning: IXL offers a standards-aligned math practice platform for K-12 with both family memberships and school/district site licenses, directly competing for the same teacher and household budgets Math Playground targets.
• SplashLearn: SplashLearn is a gamified K-5 math and reading platform with classroom and family subscriptions and a strong mobile app presence, directly comparable in audience and product format.
• ABCmouse (Age of Learning): ABCmouse offers subscription-based early education including early math for pre-K through 2nd grade, competing for the same household subscription dollars for young learners that Math Playground's Family plan targets.
• CoolMath.com: CoolMath.com is a long-running free web-based math games and puzzles site for K-8 students, closely matching Math Playground's category of browser-based recreational math content aimed at the same age cohort.

Emerging players

• Funbrain: Funbrain offers free K-8 educational games and reading/math activities, overlapping Math Playground's teacher-discovered free-game format but with a broader subject mix and modest reach.
• Hooda Math: Hooda Math is a smaller free web-based math games site covering K-8, with overlapping recreational math content but a narrower product scope and no institutional offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mathplayground
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/math-playground

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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