4 out of 5 students start kindergarten under prepared for the kindergarten curriculum. Students that start behind tend to stay behind.
80% of students do not understand the teacher coming into kindergarten. Students are required to count to ten. To show proficiency, they are asked to give the teacher ten items and the student is able to slide over ten items and stop on ten. Most people consider counting to ten saying the numbers from one to ten in order is counting to ten.
Put together, these two charts show that when a student enters the United States education system with the ability to understand the teacher, then the education system in America actually works.
On average, a student in an underfunded neighborhood is 3 years behind their funded peer. That means that a third grader, with an understanding of numbers rivaling a kindergartner, could be listening to a teacher speak about multiplication in a classroom setting. That is an impossible situation for both the teacher and student.
During play, children as young as four exhibit concepts as advanced as multiplication and division when they group toys or divide tea evenly. Research shows that the adults in the room are afraid to label the activities mathematically because they are afraid the students would not understand. Young students are adapt to learning language and the language of mathematics through algebra is required to have a student that is proficient enough to pick up any of the STEM materials. Algebra is the "third grade reading" equivalent for mathematics. A student cannot even read a text on financial literacy without encountering x as the amount in their bank account.
Children that did more mathematics during the preschool years were better readers, writers, and speakers. They performed better in all subjects. Preschool mathematics scores were a better predictor of third grade reading scores than preschool reading scores.
All of this calls for a solution that is effective.
We were founded by Ph.D. Mathematicians and Computer Scientists from the University of Denver. Actual professors of mathematics, with one goal to empower our own children with mathematics. We knew if we could build a platform that ensures that our children understand these foundational topics, then they would excel regardless of where they go to school.
On average, students in our system learn 1.5 years of conceptual mathematics in a quarter when they use the system just 30 minutes per week.
In 2020, we created a coaching program to help students that were exhibiting mathematics anxiety. The manual for the coaching program is now an Amazon Best Seller, "Treating Mathematics Anxiety: Inclusive Strategies for Working With Students Exhibiting Mathematics Anxiety."
Our team of scientists and educators
Our only mission is to empower children with mathematics. Here is how we intend to accomplish that with your team.
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Districts or Teachers that enroll in our pilot program can try the program for free in their classrooms.
