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Prisms VR founder urges state appropriation after reporting early gains in algebra using spatial VR learning
Summary
Prisms VR told the subcommittee its spatial, career‑connected VR curriculum improved Algebra I benchmark scores in an initial randomized trial and requested state funding to scale to an additional 50,000 high‑need Michigan students.
Anurupa Ganguly, founder and CEO of Prisms VR, told the House appropriations subcommittee on April 22 that Prisms’ spatial learning platform teaches standards‑based math and science through first‑person, career‑connected VR experiences and that early research shows measurable gains in Algebra I.
Ganguly described a learning design that places students in simulated, job‑connected roles—epidemiologist, building engineer, air‑traffic controller—so they can link tactile, spatial experience to abstract mathematics. “I…
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