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Elementary School. Build confidence through practice, feedback and opportunities to try again.
African-first education gaming technology
Gamifying Mathematics forLearners Across Africa
Vorqela is a South African EdTech company redefining how African learners relate to and understand Mathematics. We combine gamification, game-based design, personalisation and diagnostics through Q-Learn for Elementary School and V-Learn for Middle and High School.
Global
One learning journey. Local school stages.
Q-Learn and V-Learn bring game-based Mathematics practice to families, schools and partners across our country editions.
Continue with V-Learn
Middle and High School. Explore Mathematics problems and practise the steps behind an answer.
Elementary, middle and high school are broad descriptions. Select a country to see its exact grades, years, standards or forms.
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We are still asking digital children
to learn like the chalkboard generation
44%
Primary Maths proficiency
Worldwide end-of-primary minimum Maths proficiency estimate; underlying data pre-date COVID-19.
UNESCO · 2026
View Maths source51%
Lower-secondary Maths proficiency
Worldwide end-of-lower-secondary minimum Maths proficiency estimate reported by UNESCO.
UNESCO · 2026
View Maths source52%
Maths proficiency in TIMSS
Students meeting minimum Maths proficiency in 2023 across the countries observed in 2011, 2019 and 2023.
UNESCO · 2026
View Maths sourceQ-Learn
Our Maths response
Build Maths foundations
Elementary School
Game-based Maths practice with feedback and opportunities to try again.
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Our Maths response
Practise Maths problem solving
Middle and High School
Explore Maths problems and practise the steps behind an answer.
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Our Maths response
Find the Maths learning gap
Use learner activity to identify missing micro-skills and guide the next practice task.
Explore Our ProductsWorldwide estimates and a TIMSS country sample have different coverage; they are not averages of our 11 editions.
Assessments, years and benchmarks differ. These figures describe the Maths challenge; they do not measure Vorqela product outcomes.
Mathematics Is Not Only a Marks Problem
Many learners experience Mathematics as intimidating, abstract, repetitive, and disconnected from their everyday lives. When learners lose confidence, they practise less. When they practise less, learning gaps grow. These gaps affect classroom participation, subject choices, STEM readiness, and future opportunities.
Intimidation
Mathematics often feels like a high-stakes exam rather than a subject to explore.
Practice Gap
Traditional worksheets fail to provide the feedback and retry cycles needed for mastery.
Future Opps
Without confidence, learners avoid STEM subjects and limit their long-term career paths.
Vorqela addresses this by making Mathematics more engaging, more relatable, and easier to practise through different learning formats.
Inside the learning gap
Your child understands Maths in class.So why can't they do it alone?
More lessons don't always solve the problem, because sometimes nobody knows exactly where the learning gap is.
So what's actually going wrong?
“But I explained this.”
“We covered this in tutoring.”
“I understood it yesterday…”
The hidden difference
The same result. Two very different explanations.
1 What the report shows
Mathematics reportAlgebra42%× Struggling
“The learner needs more Algebra practice.”
2 What Vorqela traces
- Algebra
- Solving Equations
- Inverse Operations✓
- Negative Numbers✓
- Fraction Operations×
- Common Denominators!
3 Vorqela finds the gap
Root micro-skill gapCommon denominators
This weakens fraction operations and later appears as difficulty with linear equations.
V-Teacher
Teachers shouldn't have to guess either.
Turn learner activity into clear next steps—who needs help, which micro-skill is missing, and where that gap is affecting the curriculum.
Teachers & Tutors Join FreeBuilt differently
No. We didn't put ChatGPT behind a Maths game.
Vorqela's learning intelligence comes from our proprietary curriculum model, skill relationships and learner interaction data.
Learner answers question↓
System sends prompt to ChatGPT↓
ChatGPT interprets the answer↓
ChatGPT generates feedback↓
Platform calls it "personalised learning"
Learner interaction↓
Question micro-skill↓
Skill dependency model↓
Misconception tracking↓
Learning insight
Measured, not hallucinated.
Built for the Whole Learning Ecosystem
Vorqela is designed to serve every stakeholder in education across our 11 country editions.
Learners
Helping learners experience Mathematics as something they can attempt, practise, retry, and improve.
Schools
Offering curriculum-aligned learning products for classrooms, maths clubs, and learner support.
Teachers
Providing tools that support practice, revision, remediation, and learner engagement.
Partners
Creating opportunities to support Mathematics confidence, STEM readiness, and scalable learning innovation.
Parents
Helping parents support Maths confidence and visible learning progress at home.
Government & Funders
Supporting education priorities around Mathematics improvement, foundational numeracy, and measurable progress.
Let's Build Better Mathematics Learning Together
Whether you are a parent, school, partner, funder, investor, or education stakeholder, Vorqela invites you to help make Mathematics learning more engaging, relatable, and confidence-building for learners across Africa.