We’re on a mission to provide comprehensive curriculum that develops not just math skills, but thinking skills. Our team of dedicated online math tutors designed our curriculum to reflect the complexity and nuance of real life situations. When your child can process this kind of information in non-routine ways, their mind become more powerful and efficient.
Math is a lot more than just computational skills. Thinkster’s math curriculum develops your child’s ability to think non-linearly, creatively, and analytically with data. Being able to sort through the relevant information and solve problems is the true mark of mastery.
5 + 3 = ____
8 - 5 = ____
6 x 4 = ____
9 ÷ 3 = ____
By solving hundreds of problems in each topic, using customized math worksheets, your child acquires fundamental skills: fluency in math facts, accuracy, efficiency and flexibility with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The twin pillars that support substantial learning are critical thinking and logical / analytical reasoning: the art of asking questions to understand context and constraints; the ability to deduce solution given a set of criteria.
Real life word problems are a part of every skill set in our curriculum. We design these problems to include conceptually unrelated numbers (or distractors). Demonstrating what operations to use to solve problems, in the presence of distractors, is critical for gaining proficiency in a topic.
With your input, our math tutor can easily customize your child’s study plan, and their math worksheets, to reflect and reinforce what they’re learning in school. Along with this customization, we build test-taking skills through frequent evaluations.
Thinkster students frequently take small and large tests
Thinkster Topic Tests are similar to a class’ unit test
Thinkster Unit Tests are comparable to a class’ cumulative end of year test
Testing frequently helps students
develop strong test taking skills
feel confident taking tests
remember material over a long period of time
We focus on having our students develop expertise on whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and decimals—which helps our students in K-5 become ready for more demanding math concepts and procedures, and develop the capability to apply their learnings to real life situations.
We then move our students through more complex work in geometry and algebra in the middle grades to enrich and develop confidence, excellence, and preparedness for high school math.
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