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The Game Changer in Math Education!

Where mindset meets mastery.

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Empower Students to Grow Through Playful, Purposeful Challenge.

Struggly is a K–6 digital supplemental math curriculum that helps students build number sense, confidence, and a love of math. Our name reflects what we believe — and what research supports: when students engage in playful, purposeful struggle, they develop deeper understanding, greater resilience, and lasting success in math.

EdTech Award 2024
Finalist in Math Solutions
Webby Winner 2025
Learning & Education
SXSW EDU Launch 2024
Community Choice Award
Best of Show 2023
+3 Gold German Digital Awards
Best of the Best 2023
+7 Red Dot Awards
Lovie Award 2023
3 Gold, 2 Silver, People’s Voice

Embracing Struggle

Real learning happens when we embrace challenges with curiosity and persistence. Struggly encourages learners to explore new ideas, overcome obstacles, and build confidence in their mathematical journey — turning struggle into success.

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Brain Connections

Neuroscience shows that strong brain connections fuel learning and growth. Struggly empowers learners to explore patterns, experiment with ideas, and discover multiple solution paths — strengthening their understanding of math in meaningful ways.

Deep Understanding

Our working memory often fails us in stressful situations. That’s why Struggly is focused on helping children to develop a deep understanding of mathematical concepts that they can rely on at all times.

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Small Shift. Huge Spark.

Struggly makes deep math thinking easy to teach and exciting to learn — with visual, standards-aligned tasks students actually love.

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Students love it. Teachers trust it.

Let me say that you and the Struggly team are onto something for sure. Struggly is one of the only math 'apps' that has academic value AND is passionately loved by our students.

Tom Kramer
Lower School Math Specialist, Synapse School

My students who free play Struggly all upped their math score by one grade level on the recent diagnostic that was given. This is the first year I had my whole class improve one entire grade level or more.

Christopher Dewhirst
Middle School Teacher, Keaau Middle School

One teacher sent me a video of all her 4th grade students working on Struggly saying this is hard but not giving up...

Becky Hanselman
Instructional Coach, Sandburg Elementary

Many of the students said that Struggly helps "grow their brain!" Thank you for helping to increase our first graders' curiosity and interest in math this year!

Lisa Brown
First Grade Teacher, Sandburg Elementary School

My students don't need any external bribes or reminders for Struggly, they ask to play it daily. It's a valuable resource, and I highly recommend it to my colleagues!

Shelly Anderson, M.Ed.
4th Grade Teacher, Mountain View, Elementary School

My students absolutely love using Struggly.... best resource I have found for building math number sense and problem solving.

Holly Riding
Teacher, Saratoga Shores Elementary

My students are enjoying the struggle. They are learning so much about themselves as they get frustrated figuring out the puzzles, but then feel proud when they make the connections and succeed. Struggly is so good for my students!!!

Mrs. Bagger
4th Grade Teacher, CA

What an amazing platform you have created! All the teachers and students I have seen engaging with Struggly have been in love with it. I’ve been delighted to see how well it reinforces growth mindset messages and teaches math in a rigorous, creative, visual, and playful way!

Anna Scannell
Elementary Math Specialist, International School of Luxembourg

When I told my students last week that Struggly helps them understand math better, they didn’t believe me. They think it’s just fun.

Kristen Robertson
Math TOSA (1-4th grade)

How Struggly Makes Rich, Meaningful Math Easy to Bring Into Your Day.

Start of a Unit

Kick off a new math idea with a shared experience that ignites curiosity and engages every learner. Choose a task aligned with your learning goal and use it to spark wonder, conversation, and sense-making. Our low-floor/high-ceiling design ensures all students can enter the work — and see themselves as mathematicians — right from the start.

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After Introducing a Concept

Once a concept is launched, use Struggly to help students explore it from fresh angles. Tasks highlight relationships, representations, and meaning — pushing students to reason, notice patterns, and make connections across models. It’s the perfect bridge between initial instruction and deeper conceptual understanding.

Individual Practice

Struggly makes independent practice meaningful, motivating and individualized. Students jump into tasks tailored to their needs and quickly get hooked on the visual puzzles that build the fundamental concepts that matter most. You can trust that while they’re deeply engaged, they’re also strengthening the core math ideas that drive success in your class and beyond.

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Intervention

Struggly offers a fresh, visual approach that leads to real “light bulb” moments. Our tasks offer students a completely different way into math — visual, playful, and conceptual. It’s often exactly the shift they need to finally understand an idea. Perfect for small groups, targeted intervention blocks, and supporting students with pathways into content that’s tripped them up in the past.

Easy as 1, 2, 3...

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Choose a standards-aligned task

Search by content, grade level, or CCSS standard to quickly find a visual, low-floor/high-ceiling task that fits right into your lesson.

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Let students explore for 15–20 minutes

Search by content, grade level, or CCSS standard to quickly find a visual, low-floor/high-ceiling task that fits right into your lesson.

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Spark discussion & assess understanding

Use our built-in Reflect & Reason prompts to facilitate a whole-class conversation, small-group debrief, or simple exit ticket. Formative assessment… done.

Be Part of a Growing Community

Join over 200,000 learners and educators who are transforming the way they experience math.

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Struggly is based on research.