After-School Math Program and Tutoring Service in Newton

Confidence is the quality that most of today's students lack. The notion of "What do I do when I don't know what to do?" makes many children throw in the towel. While students may be well versed in different concepts and principals separately, putting them in an unusual or unfamiliar combination makes the problem look impossible to solve.

Our approach prepares kids to meet these challenges head on and is threefold.

1. The complexity of the material increases incrementally over time such that peeling unfamiliar cover off the problem is challenging but age appropriate. This puts the goal within the reach and makes success possible for each student.

2. Students learn different methods and strategies for solving similar problems. This eliminates single points of failure and equips students with the answer validating tools.

3. Our program encourages students to gradually build an intuitive number sense through practice backed by logic and reasoning.

At Top Banana we recognize that while achievement gives birth to motivation, motivated students make greater strides and achieve more. It is extremely important for children to learn the feeling of accomplishment and pride and to get on a path to success early in life. One of the greatest mathematicians of all times Isaac Newton said "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." While presenting math concepts at a pace that the students can comfortably sustain, our curriculum is designed to show the students how the dots are connected and how to progressively build knowledge around the traditional core math framework. With our fun, engaging and yet rigorous approach students are set up for success every step of the way.

The program cultivates critical thinking in our students which instills the "can-do" attitude. Empowered by the techniques they learned and having honed their math skills, children who believe in themselves and take pride in their new abilities perform better in all school subjects across the board. They become more observant, more accurate, more organized, more logical, more analytical and more agile. In short, they get to be smarter learners and independent thinkers.

Young children think in concrete terms and learn best when they are able to connect the math principals taught in class with what is familiar to them from everyday life. To think mathematically is to engage in a dramatic play where numbers represent people, things and places, and manipulating the numbers reflects how the characters interact with each other.

Our carefully orchestrated curriculum leads children on a journey of connecting the dots allowing them to discover the universal nature of mathematics. When students realize the rhyme and reason behind the principals they are taught, they begin to appreciate how math makes very complicated things much easier. As their perception of different phenomena evolves, children get accustomed to self-validating the outcome of their work and become more independent.