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Welcome to the K12 Skills Arcade

Make learning something your child looks forward to! The K12 Skills Arcade helps kids in Preschool to 12th grade build skills in math, reading, science, and more—through learning that feels like play. As they complete lessons, they earn coins to spend on quick “brain break” games. It’s a fun, motivating way to keep them practicing every day.

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Turn Practice Into Play

Each correct answer earns coins your child can save or spend on fun options—like arcade games and puzzles. With so many choices, they’ll stay motivated to practice and enjoy breaks along the way.

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Support Their Growth & Track Progress

The Skills Arcade adjusts to your child’s level, whether they need support or advanced work. While they practice, you can easily track progress at a glance with the dashboard or sign up for weekly email updates on their growth.

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Enjoy Skills Arcade Wherever Your Child Learns

Skills Arcade is included at no cost for all students enrolled in K12-powered schools.

Featured Learning Games

Watch your child light up as they earn coins and sharpen real skills in these engaging, kid-approved games:

MathBee

Your child can build math fluency in this lively bubble-shooter game packed with 100 levels, covering everything from multiplication to elapsed time. Each level keeps practice fresh and fun!

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ELA Village

In this magical, fantasy-themed village, kids practice literacy skills by completing quests and playing mini-games! As they play, they earn coins to decorate their castle and customize their avatar—making learning feel like an adventure.

Inside ELA Village, your child can:

  • Grammar Glider – Soar through an endless-flyer game while practicing grammar.
  • Tower of Tense – Conquer a platformer adventure while mastering verb usage and other language skills.
  • English Escape – Solve punctuation, capitalization, and mechanics challenges in a dungeon-crawler quest.
  • Vocab Crypt – Expand vocabulary in a crossword-style game.

Exciting Arcade Games

Your child can trade in their coins to play fun, arcade-style games that keep learning fresh and motivating. These are just a few of the games they can play:

Snuggle Pet

Snuggle Pet

Golfix

Golfix

Hoops

Hoops

Flappy Challenge

Flappy Challenge

Squirrely Whirrly 2

Squirrely Whirrly 2

Trusted by Families and Educators

Families across the country trust K12 to deliver flexible, high-quality online learning—and Skills Arcade is making a measurable difference. Students who regularly use Skills Arcade score significantly higher in math and reading benchmarks compared to peers who don’t.2

*Former 1st grade teacher

“Prior to making this change, all but 4 of my 18 students were working below grade level. Within the first two weeks, over half of the class was working at grade level.”

K12-powered student** 

“I like it because they make math and other subjects fun.”

K12-powered student** 

“What I love the most about … [K12] Skills Arcade is that there are many fun games to play with the … coins you earn from answering questions correctly for different school subjects.”

Principal***

“[K12] Skills Arcade pushes both high-performing and low-performing students. They enjoy the games and the challenge of bettering themselves without the typical stress they feel around state testing.”

Former principal***

“K12 Skills Arcade has become an integral part of our daily learning program because it’s making that big of a difference in our students’ learning outcomes.”

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FAQs

A: K12 Skills Arcade is an exclusive game-based learning platform that makes practicing essential skills fun.

A: Your student earns coins by correctly answering content-based questions in math, reading, science, language arts, and social studies, or by playing the MathBee and ELA Village games.

A: They can collect coins or trade them to unlock a variety of arcade-style games, puzzles, and activities. It’s a built-in reward system that motivates kids to keep learning.

A: It’s free for all students enrolled in a K12-powered school.

A: Yes. You’ll have access to an easy-to-read dashboard showing what your child is practicing, benchmark test results, and how they’re progressing—so you can guide and celebrate their learning journey.

A: First, students need to be enrolled in a class that offers K12 Skills Arcade. Then enrolled students simply log in with their K12 credentials in Canvas.

A: Yes, enrolled students can log in with their K12 credentials in Canvas. https://login.k12.com/

A: Absolutely. Every game is designed and carefully created for student use, so you can feel confident letting your child play.

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See What Else K12 Has to Offer

When you enroll your child in a K12-powered school, they gain access to more than just Skills Arcade. Your child will benefit from live classes led by certified teachers, quality curriculum, hands-on learning materials, and a supportive school community—all backed by K12, a leader in online learning for more than 25 years.

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1K12 Skills Arcade earned the 2025 Gold Stevie award for Game-Based Curriculum Solution. 

2Results from the Council for Leaders of Alabama Schools after a statewide implementation of the K12 Skills Arcade. 
*This statement from a 2024 teacher at a K12-powered school in GA reflects their experience. 
**These statements are from 2025 students who played K12 Skills Arcade, and each reflects their experience. 
***These statements are from 2024 principals at a K12-powered school in AL, and each reflects their experience.