Elementary students have continued to struggle in mathematics nationally which causes concern among educators about how to improve achievement. While educators have a plethora of technology resources, these resources have not improved the overall performance of students in math. Recently, the digital badge has become a tool to help impact student learning. Digital badges are online images that are linked to a student's success of some skill or mastery in some area. These badges are useful because they can demonstrate how a student acquired the badge or the learning pathway a student took to acquire the badge. This can provide more information about a student's learning. Further, using an engaging instructional tool that is focused on the academic content required by a district is necessary to assist with the students' mastery. The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental study was to determine the effectiveness of using digital badges with the online practice tool, TenMarks, in increasing student achievement on the North Carolina Early Numeracy Skills Indicators (NCENSI) for first grade students at a Northeastern North Carolina Title 1 rural public elementary school. The results revealed that there was no statistically significant difference in in math scores for first graders between the experiential (badging students) and the comparative group (non-badging students) in five of the six components of the state assessment utilized. However, when the correlation was conducted for the number of badges earned and post-test scores, there was a statistical significance. Thus, the impact of badges did lead to math gains in the badging group. The results of the study may allow more elementary classrooms to utilize digital badging in math instruction. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]