Thank you for your vote of confidence. I'm so glad your student is enjoying their time at Mathnasium! At Mathnasium, we train our instructors for a month on 5 different math teaching techniques. That way, the instructors don't rely on their preferred method, because every student like to learn math in a different way.

Thank you for your valuable feedback. We appreciate it, & we’re glad your granddaughter is returning to Mathnasium as she starts 5th grade this fall, despite her comments. I assume you gave us a score of 9/10 because of “yelling about finger counting.” You personally didn’t witness that because at Mathnasium we simply never yell at any student under any circumstances. At our center, in over 5 years, only 1 instructor criticized 1 student once (& without yelling), & they got fired for it immediately. Finger counting is counting by 1, & therefore it’s a memorization skill, not a math skill, whether you do it with fingers, or tapping, or blinking… It’s a bad habit we want all students to get rid of from 1st grade. The only 2 things we want students to memorize in math is counting from 0 to 30 in kindergarten, & doubling nbrs between 0 & 12 in 1st grade. With those 2 math facts, humans can do any other math in the world, like doubling nbrs up to 100 within 5 seconds using mental math in 3rd grade, which would take forever using finger counting, or calculating a tip at restaurants within 10 seconds using mental math in 5th grade. Since Mathnasium is a 1-on-1 program that goes at the student’s pace (unlike schools), we can afford to avoid memorization, & we replace it with math strategies that last forever, instead of memorizing math facts that last until the next math test, then get forgotten without practicing boring repetition.

Thank you Julia. It's important to have a fun learning environment for more individual productivity & faster pace. Some of our students ask us if they can attend more than 3 times/week, but that's the max to avoid a burnout effect after a year. We specialize in making kids fall in love with math, & we guarantee changing their negative attitude towards math within 2 months. Enjoy!