Executive Summary

Many K–12 physics teachers struggle to help students grasp momentum conservation because classroom demonstrations are hard to run and textbook problems remain abstract. This pain is felt by individual teachers and district curriculum buyers who need reliable, standards‑aligned resources that work across devices and tie to assessment. You could build a browser‑based suite of lightweight interactive sims that let teachers manipulate mass, velocity, elasticity and collision types with real‑time visualizations, embedded formative questions, exportable reports, and downloadable lesson plans and rubrics. Packaged as a district toolkit with SIS/LMS rostering and simple SCORM/LTI integrations, it would minimize setup friction and support assessment and reporting needs. The timing is favorable: an addressable market estimated at $1.2B (200,000 K–12 districts × $6,000 ACV) and growing teacher preference for browser‑based interactive materials create a clear distribution path, while districts increasingly prioritize standards‑aligned, assessment‑ready purchases. At the same time, district procurement consolidation means landing larger deals will require integration work and longer sales cycles. You can differentiate by combining high‑fidelity, curriculum‑aligned sims with turnkey lesson plans, assessment items, and analytics that tie into LMS/SIS — a practical edge versus single‑sim vendors or generic applets. The tradeoffs are medium competition and upfront investment to build teacher credibility and district integrations, so plan for 6–12 month development and pilot timelines before scaling revenue.

Market Opportunity

Help physics teachers visualize momentum conservation with interactive web sims targets a $1.2B = 200,000 K-12 schools/districts × $6,000 ACV per district for curriculum and simulation toolkits total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 10% CAGR in K-12 digital curriculum and EdTech spend (source: HolonIQ and Education Week market summaries).

Key trends driving demand: Interactive content adoption — Teachers increasingly prefer browser-based interactive materials because they reduce setup friction and work across devices, creating a distribution path for lightweight web sims.; Curriculum alignment demand — Schools are prioritizing standards-aligned, assessment-ready resources, which creates an opportunity for sims packaged with lesson plans and rubrics.; District procurement consolidation — Districts prefer vendor integrations (SIS, LMS, rostering), so products that offer simple integrations can win larger deals.; AI-assisted authoring — Teachers expect tools that can auto-generate problems, hints, and assessments, enabling rapid localization of content for different standards..

Key competitors include PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder), ExploreLearning Gizmos, Algodoo / Phun-style apps.

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Help physics teachers visualize momentum conservation with interactive web sims

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