Your children will thank you for your interest

Katie was accepted into a top liberal arts school and surprised her parents by thanking them for all the math tutoring they supplied.

Katie had first started working with us as a freshman while at a prep school in Fairfield County.  She entered our sessions very reluctantly. But she had not mastered fractions, ratios, percentages and a variety of other K-8 math concepts that would haunt her throughout high school if she didn’t put in some extra time. Katie was a big reader and did wonderfully well in English and social studies. She also had a strong memory and a good work ethic, at least for areas that she liked. Straight As and a B- math would be a fine report card except that Katie had ambitions to attend a top college.

Katie maintained her lifelong aversion to math but she had mastered math processes related to the fundamentals. She was not conceptually strong but our math tutor had taught her ways to deal with fractions, percentages, ratios, basic Algebra and geometry such that she knew how to work through the problems mechanically.  She made B plusses and A minuses in math throughout high school. Since the fundamentals really matter for test prep success, Katie’s SAT math score was surprisingly strong. Her test scores in reading and writing as well as her grades in those areas carried her to greater college admission heights and led to her surprising “thank you” to her parents.