The strength of the Mathnasium Method lies in its individualised approach. As no two students come to you at the same skill level, each child’s maths skills are assessed individually, identifying their specific strengths and learning gaps in a highly detailed report which is shared with their parents.
This personalised focus is taken throughout their tuition, ensuring they build a fundamental understanding of maths. Maths is based on logic, and when students understand why they’re doing something instead of simply memorising the mechanics, retention levels increase dramatically. For that reason, “just because” is never an explanation: the why is just as important as the how. Mathnasium doesn’t use rote learning: we teach for understanding.
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Mathnasium@home
Mathnasium@home allows students to get live Mathnasium instruction from anywhere with an internet connection. Tested for more than two years in tens of thousands of sessions, we rolled it out to the UK network as the lockdown began, ensuring income streams remained strong for franchisees.
It features:
- The same Mathnasium Method used in our centres: real-time, face-to-face learning, with the same instructors
- Additional customer revenue: the same subscription fees as in-centre enrolments
- Safety and security, with the comfort and convenience customers love
Complementary to the school curriculum
Mathnasium is designed to be compatible with, and complementary to, everything students learn in school. The Mathnasium Method was developed by a maths teacher on a mission – and has been carefully and comprehensively converted to support the UK curriculum, though not be constrained by it; Mathnasium can step back or push ahead with students as required.
Franchisees can access more than 22,000 pages of proprietary materials to take children from counting on their fingers to GCSE tuition. You’ll also have access to entrance exam preparation material for 9+, 10+, 11+ and GCSE programmes.
Meet the man behind the method
Maths doesn’t change, but the teaching method can. This observation and the ensuing Mathnasium Method is the product of Larry Martinek’s 35-year teaching and educational consulting career. As he taught in environments ranging from poorly performing inner city schools to acclaimed magnet schools, Larry identified a disconnect that seemed to be present throughout: children were not learning the basic maths concepts they needed to master lessons they would encounter in the years to come.
With the help of his son, Nic, Larry decided that it made sense to find a better way to teach children maths the first time around rather than focus on remediating them in later school. This objective – to teach kids maths in a way that makes sense to them – is the foundation of the Mathnasium Method, Larry’s life work.
Today, Larry’s method is the foundation for over 1,200 Mathnasium tutoring franchises around the world. This proprietary method provides our franchisees the ability to impact lives and improve self-esteem for children from thousands of different local communities.
