“Thinkster Math did it in 1 year what Kumon could not do in 3 years!”
Tanu S, Parent, CT
Before Suhani, a Thinkster from Connecticut, initially earned a Score of 485 (Stage 2) on the Math section of the Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT).
After In less than a year after signing up for Thinkster Math, her Score jumped to 547 (Stage 4).
“My daughter went from 'bombing math' and being in the “danger zone” to showing growth that was 80% above her state peers after using Thinkster.”
Lisa Germann, Parent, CO
Before This Thinkster initially received an RIT score of 210 on the math section of the MAP test.
After Within a year, she became a math rockstar in her class and school, and managed to bump up her RIT score by 10 points.
"It’s amazing what a year of Thinkster can do! Her teacher told me it’s the first time she saw any of her students score higher than a fifth grader! We are doing something right!”
Parent of Alyssa, Grade 2
Thinkster Alyssa, a second grader, actually showed performance at the 5th grade level on the STAR Math Assessment, just a year after she started doing Thinkster Math!
"Before starting Thinkster, Kiara was falling behind in Math, but these days she tackles complex word problems and has built strong calculation skills which have led her to achieve the highest band in the Australian Naplan National Test.”
Clem, Father of Kiara, Australia
Kiara and her sister used to do Kumon in Australia before joining Thinkster five years ago! They were our first few customers “down under”, but their performance in math has been amazing and worthy of rockstar status!
“...Thanks to his tutor and Thinkster, Soham has scored 86% in his state level and one of the highest in his campus...”
Neeti S, Mom, of Soham, TX
The figure on the right shows Soham performing at the Master’s Grade Level on the math portion of the Texas Assessment. His mom thanks Thinkster for the incredible results!
"Thinkster Math helped Suprav in building more confidence in math by identifying his strong and weak areas and working on them gradually to advance Suprav beyond his grade level which helped him achieve top scores no only in his class but also in his MAP tests.”
Mom of Suprav, North Carolina
Suprav scored in the 97th-99th percentile on the North Carolina MAP test within a year of using Thinkster.
The figure on the right shows Thinkster student Georgia’s score of 93% on the International MAP math test. Georgia has been a student for 2+ years, and her MAP results have increased over 20% in that time.
Literally, Off The Charts Performance!!
Camille’s performance on the national NAPLAN test was literally off the charts! Camille’s parents chose Thinkster over Kumon several years back because of the convenience of not having to travel to a learning center. Her parents shared, “Camille’s got a full extracurricular schedule and we didn’t want to drive her to yet another place, and we didn’t want to grade her worksheets. She is also able to do Thinkster easily while we travel.”
Literally, Off The Charts Performance!!
Kaydee’s performance on the national NAPLAN test was literally off the charts! She is currently working on math that is almost 2 years ahead of her grade level. She used to do Kumon and has now being doing Thinkster for the last several years. We are looking forward to hearing more about Kaydee’s future successes.
"Carys is a hard worker and takes school very seriously. She strives to be the best in everything she does. Carys was the only 4th grade girl in her school to obtain National Honorable Mention for the Noetic Learning Math Contest. We are very proud of her!"
Mother of Carys
Carys, from Connecticut received the highest score possible on the SBAC! According to SBAC, students performing at this standard are demonstrating advanced progress towards master of mathematics knowledge and skills.
Adrian, on the right, did amazingly well on the 5th grade NAPLAN National Test - scoring in the highest possible band. He has been with Thinkster for several years!
Not only does Thinkster guarantee results, our programs are highly reviewed by parents and students. Read some of the hundreds of reviews and case studies from parents just like you.
“We got some really good news recently - when my son got his benchmark assessment, he scored out of the park. His teacher even pulled him out of line when she saw his score and whispered in his ear how well he had done. And he was so proud when he got in the car that day. I can say that Adam continuing to work with Thinkster and work on his math skills has improved his confidence and his willingness to even work at math, an area where he had struggled before joining Thinkster.
And more than anything, I just love seeing him be so excited about how he performed. It's a joy. I'm telling you, honestly, to see kids find themselves and the confidence they build because that's a lifelong thing”
“We are in love with Thinkster because it has made our kids competitive in terms of their state testing. Thinkster has made our kids perform competitively with their peers. It has also given them a lot of confidence in their abilities as math students. Especially with girls and STEM, I think it's really important for my two girls who are doing the program to feel confident, to feel like they can do what's asked of them in school and what's asked of them on the testing. It's also very easy for parents as it doesn't require us to drive the kids to any tutoring center.
Having a dedicated personal tutor is also great and she manages the progress of my kids. It’s really easy, and me and my husband really like the Parent App. My husband reviews our kids’ work and makes sure that they're spending the amount of time that they need to be spending and devoting a level of attention to it. That's really all he has to do is to look at the Parent App every night and say, ‘Yeah, okay - you spend the right amount of time, you know, because of the time suggested for the worksheet. Good job’. And if my kids didn't do that, then the next day, he'll say, ‘Okay, well, since they did 10 minutes shorter the previous day, they have to do 40 minutes today’ and so forth. We want our kids to do Thinkster for 30 minutes each day and it really has helped.”
"I have 4 kids using Thinkster for the last 3 months-All of my kids are progressing really well. I like the curriculum, I find that there is plenty of practice and analytical thinking with word problems not just route memorization. I also love our tutor - Sabrina is great, she is engaging and is definitely challenging my kiddos."
“We were paired with the perfect tutor for our student. She understands her mind; she understands her thought process - better than I do, I think! She also encourages her in a way that our student really responds to. The quality of the tutor that we have been paired with… I couldn’t have interviewed and picked one better myself. Her way of working with my daughter has built her confidence back up in a way where she realizes now that she is smart in math. She just learns differently than other students and needs that time and support to get the concepts and do the work. ”
“Learning isn’t just about learning how to solve the problems. It’s actually understanding the questions and understanding the whole concept of it. And I think that’s what really taught [our son] how to be a better mathematician.”
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"Thinkster Math has been so amazing. The focus is on math but our son has improved in all subjects because he has gained so much confidence from figuring out how to study properly. It’s also so convenient to do the worksheets on an iPad at home and to do the tutoring sessions on our own time rather than the store hours of a tutoring place like Kumon."
"Thinkster Math are great for the kids who wants to take math challenges. They are not like other math classes which work on their own pattern. If kids are doing well and taking higher level challenges Thinkster Math is the first choice. Coaches are really good and detail oriented. Happy to enroll my kid here."
"A fantastic, customized tutoring program that doesn’t require driving to a center. Our tutor is communicative and responsive and always adjusting their assignments. Expensive but seeing good results. Three kids using, would highly recommend. Wish it went through high school!"
"Thinkster Math has been an excellent addition to my children's education. Everyone is professional, prompt and genuinely cares about students getting the most of their experience.
Our tutor Erica is wonderful - she customizes her approach and assignments based on my kids' two personalities. She's a great motivator, but also holds them accountable. I would highly recommend Thinkster Math."
Continue Reading - We Are Going to Reveal The Proven 7-Step Method of Thinkster That We Guarantee Will Make Your Child a Math Champion Within a Few Short Months.
You can increase your child’s math scores by 90% within 3-6 months by using other tutoring services (who are scrambling to offer a digital service) if you can supplement what they do with a ton of personal effort from you at home or by hiring additional private tutors to monitor your child’s work daily using ineffective tools.
However, using other tutoring services is not going to solve this problem as -
We are the only 100% natively digitally designed tutoring program dedicated to solving this particular problem for parents and can provide an elite tutor to coach, monitor and mentor your child daily and make them into problem solvers and become good in critical thinking/logical reasoning skills. We will get your child ready to be compete for getting admitted into Ivy League Colleges or the top Universities of their choice.
A world-class curriculum, designed and developed to ensure comprehensive understanding of the “why” behind every concept is critical to build a rock solid foundation in math.
A lack of practice solving math problems that teach multiple ways of solving each problem is another principal reason students fail in math.
Many types of research have found that the reason why most students fail in math is not because they are inherently bad in math, or they don’t have an aptitude for math, or that they are afraid of math; they fail because they were not taught math correctly and did not understand the reason behind everything.
There are specific reasons why just memorizing solutions to math problems simply does not work for many students. A review of neuropsychological research1 in math skills has found that many low achievers in math show weaknesses in skills that fall under the umbrella term executive function.
If students can remember as few things as needed as possible, but derive other facts when needed in solving problems, they no longer have to overload their working memory. Learning math strategies is a HUGE help with the reduction of cognitive load.
Custom curated math worksheets tailor made for each student is critical to accelerate learning and maintain student engagement.
What each student needs to learn now and next should uniquely be decided by how well they do with their assigned work.
In his book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink indicates that everyone who works on any topic reaches a flow state, where people feel accomplished about their achievements.
He essentially states that people aren’t seeking to be lazy, but would in fact pursue a feeling called ‘Flow’, a feeling that comes about when we are ‘stretched to our limits… to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile’
He calls these activities as the ‘Goldilocks tasks’, in that they aren't too easy and they aren’t too hard. This feeling of Flow therefore tends to occur at the boundary of anxiety and boredom.
Imagine, as a parent, someone walks up to you and asks you to show if you can count aloud from 1 to 100. Of course, you can easily do this, but you would be wondering what the purpose would be and would find this to be a totally pointless and boring exercise.
On the flip side, imagine this same person walks over to you and asks if you can tell them how many Saturdays there are between January 1st, 1980 and December 31st, 2019. You will probably immediately determine that this is too hard of an exercise and might abandon the task.
Hyper-personalization is the science of letting your child work on the “Goldilocks tasks” or “Just right math assignments/worksheets” at any given time. This enhances student engagement, motivation, development of positive attitudes, and ability to accelerate learning at the most optimal pace.
Teachers need to know what concepts each student -
to move them through the zone of proximal development and accelerate learning.
Every student needs to get personalized assignments that are targeted to their needs.
Absent this kind of a personalized approach, your child may continue to be at risk in not delivering the math improvements that you are seeking.
When we apply this approach, the student performance improvement is staggering.
As a parent, how can you solve for this hyper-personalization approach? Stick around for a bit and you will find out.
Daily monitoring, grading, and feedback from an elite tutor, assigned specifically for each student, is essential to achieve superlative performance improvements. This is no different than the personalized coaching that Tennis champions get to improve their game.
Weekly 1:1 contact with a tutor for tutoring/coaching for clarifications on school work, homework, or any test prep help, is significant for improving confidence and thus student performance.
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When you've found your elite dedicated tutor, you can guarantee that your child will begin to show amazing performance improvement.
In 3 months, your child will begin to surpass their peers. In 6 months, your child’s scores will have improved by 90%. And in a year, your child will be placed into Honors.
When you combine a highly motivated child with a elite dedicated tutor, you can achieve 90% improvement in math scores within 3-6 months.
Cohen (1987) observed that large instructional gains are possible when the curriculum, the instruction, and the measures of student progress are aligned.
Research Says - “Good Feedback Is Targeted, Specific, Timely” and that feedback should be within 24 to 48 hours.1
Specifically, among several studies, research from National Institutes of Health (NIH) observed that those who received immediate feedback saw a significant increase in performance compared to those who received delayed feedback.2
If your child doesn’t know something and you are not able to give timely help, it will only frustrate your child. Make sure that whenever your child is working on new concepts, you are available or have a private tutor available to not just explain concepts, but how to solve problems involving those concepts.
Students improved their course grades compared with Group B and were more interested in taking science classes in the future (Science, 2009)
Wrote summaries of their science studies
Group A students improved their course grades compared with controls and were more interested in taking science classes in the future (Science, 2009).
Let’s look at an example of engagement.
Suppose you are playing a game of soccer with your friends at school. Imagine the ball is being kicked around and every team is trying to score a goal.
Do you just wait for the ball to come to you and then hope that you will be ready to kick it at that time?
Or, do you keep track of the ball, who is kicking it, which direction it is being kicked and how the ball finally gets to you?
It’s likely to be the latter, as what you do to kick the ball depends entirely on who passed the ball to you, for what reason, and what was their expectation of your action when that ball was passed to you. This means that you not only had to be absorbed in every kick that was made for the previous 10-15 minutes, but you are also acutely aware of the scoreboard and what is expected out of you to change or influence the score in your team’s favor.
This is how student engagement needs to be as well. Are they anticipating what is going to come next, why they are being asked to work on a particular set of math problems, and what the likely outcomes are going to be. Is your child being rewarded for this behavior? If your child does not understand all these and is not motivated to put this behavior into practice each day, you may see a lack of engagement.
There is sufficient and strong evidence to show that when parents are heavily engaged or connected to their child’s work, there is a significant increase in student performance.
Your own engagement sends subtle and not-so subtle signals to your child about what is important and what is not. They take cues from your emotions as well.
This is not surprising at all as students tend to perform better with the added convenience and benefits of technology. They get the following immediate benefits -
Pizza Delivery: it's Cheap, but it's also super unhealthy to eat pizza all the time
CDs: It's expensive to buy an entire CD just so you can listen to your favourite song! Plus you need to carry around multiple CDs.
Video Rental: Late fees on movies add up fast, You're also limited to the vidoe store's inventory when you visit.
Yellow Taxis: Rides can get expensive. It can also be a difficult to hail a taxi.(Hopefully one comes down on the street when you need it!)
Real Restaurant Food Delivered On-Demand and Anywhere
On Demand Streaming Music with Personalized Playlists for You
On-Demand Video Streaming with Personalized Recommendations - Not Limited by Inventory
On-Demand Taxi Ride Hailing from Anywhere, at Anytime
High quality personalized tutoring for each child from the convenience of home
Affordable & Convenient - no commuting or waiting outside learning centers save time for parents and students
High quality and elite math tutors who are dedicated to each student and monitor and coach every day
Continuous feedback with auditable progress monitoring for each student
Personalize learning for each student based on their capabilities and speed of learning for each topic
Constantly analyze and macro-tailor content for each student everyday
Never allowing student to get frustrated by getting stuck on math problem - provide question specific video tutorials + timely grading and feedback
Provide convenient to practice anytime, anywhere including private 1:1 tutoring sessions
Convenience Translates to Time Saving, Reduced Distractions, Increased Focus on Learning
You can forget about not hitting your child’s academic goals and having them not feel good about themselves.
You will get rid of hoping and praying for improvement.
Your child will be rid of anxiety and fear of math.
You will no longer be in the dark about your child’s preparedness for college and life as you will be able to start tracking performance improvement in your child as soon as you begin our program.
You can finally get rid of any tutoring programs or tutors that are not helping you and costing you a lot of money.
You no longer need to commute for math classes and waste precious time with your family with our digital delivery model.
You can stop worrying and wondering whether your child will see improvements like with other tutoring programs where you are unable to track performance improvement.
You no longer have to worry if your child is developing the right attitude for success in life.
Imagine being able to understand what your child needs to succeed, be it compete in the math Olympiad or get help with school work. This is what we do, by quickly creating a baseline. We start with a simple Skills Assessment of your child to identify their strengths and weaknesses.
As soon as your child completes the Skills Assessment Test, you will, within a few hours, get a detailed diagnostic report.
During a call or webinar, an Academic Advisor will answer questions and share the many benefits your child gets as a Thinkster! You will also complete a student learning goals questionnaire. This helps our advisors match your child to a dedicated math tutor.
We’ll match your child with an elite match tutor, who is dedicated to your child’s success. The tutor is your partner in your child’s academic progress and is responsible for picking the right math worksheets, grading worksheets daily, and offering 1:1 private tutoring sessions each week.
Your child will continue to work on any areas that are not yet mastered. You get an opportunity to discuss any questions you may have regarding the assignments with your dedicated tutor!
Your child will continue to work on any areas that were not mastered. You get an opportunity to discuss any questions you may have regarding the assignments based on this test with your dedicated tutor!
Every math worksheet is specifically crafted and curated for your child. We expect your child to complete about 10 worksheets each week. Our goal is not only to accelerate your child’s learning, but to also provide a solid foundation for achieving mastery in math.
You also get to request custom worksheets to help with school work or other specialized test prep. A separate playlist is created for you to follow-up on these as well.
We are aligned to Common Core Standards and your child’s school curriculum. We constantly upgrade our curriculum to ensure that we can challenge our students with real world problems.
We understand that students need to be fluent and understand number sense, spatial understanding of numbers. A core skill set that anchors everything we do.
Real life word problems that include distractors are a part of every skill set in our curriculum. Demonstrating what operations to use to solve problems in the presence of distractors is critical for gaining proficiency in a topic.
We believe knowing computational math or logic-based word problems is not sufficient. Our students can think on their feet and understand the relationship between operations. That, for example, addition and subtraction are inversely related?
In addition to assistance from your dedicated tutor, tutorial videos are available in every digital worksheet. The videos explain multiple strategies to solve the same exact math problem. This helps minimize frustrations that your child would otherwise experience when attempting to solve math problems.
Once your child submits a completed worksheet, your dedicated tutor reviews and provide feedback along with helpful notes. Your dedicated tutor is available all 7 days a week to provide you concierge level assistance. After all, learning does not stop just because it’s a weekend .
Your child’s tutor is able to visualize the student thinking process and provide specific feedback on the questions answered incorrectly. Understanding “why” your child makes mistakes helps our tutors swiftly accelerate learning improvements.
Students in our coaching plans connect with their dedicated tutor for weekly whiteboard-driven tutoring sessions. They get 4 or 8 tutoring sessions per month, depending on the subscription plans you choose ( each session is 60 minutes).
Keep track of specific activities that your child completes each week. The weekly report automatically summarizes the progress your child makes on math topics. Reviewing these reports helps provide flexibility to add or make changes to the personalized assignments assigned by your child’s dedicated tutor. If you want changes to be made to your requested playlist, you now have visibility to make it happen!
Track your child’s performance, see improvement by topics and concepts daily & weekly
Your dedicated tutor will not only send you a weekly report of your student’s progress (see below for example report), but our Dynamic Progress Matrix, available to you all the time, does all of the above and much more. It provides you a live, constantly updating report of your student’s progress over time. Get performance improvement that you can track – transparently!
Now you can track performance, engage with your dedicated tutor, and understand how your child is progressing – right from your pocket!
Keep track of specific activities that your child completes each week. The weekly report automatically summarizes the progress your child makes on math topics. Reviewing these reports helps provide flexibility to add or make changes to the personalized assignments assigned by your child’s dedicated tutor. If you want changes to be made to your requested playlist, you now have visibility to make it happen!
Our students earn and exchange their reward points for a gift card. For every 1500 points, you get $1 in gift cards, up to a maximum of $5 in gift cards. We also accrue your unredeemed gifts and you can change your selection any time.
Children get points and gift cards as rewards, but they also receive a monthly virtual medal. These medals - bronze, silver, and gold - are given to kids for showing consistency, resiliency, focus, and acceleration of learning. You want to have your child progress from Bronze to Gold medals! Conversations around the dinner table can be around how quickly they can get a Gold medal and how long can they maintain a streak of winning Gold medals. You will begin to see a correlation between the type of medals earned and acceleration of their math knowledge. This is exactly the reason you wanted your child to do Thinkster!
Children get points and gift cards as rewards, but they also receive a monthly virtual medal. These medals - bronze, silver, and gold - are given to kids for showing consistency, resiliency, focus, and acceleration of learning. You want to have your child progress from Bronze to Gold medals! Conversations around the dinner table can be around how quickly they can get a Gold medal and how long can they maintain a streak of winning Gold medals. You will begin to see a correlation between the type of medals earned and acceleration of their math knowledge. This is exactly the reason you wanted your child to do Thinkster!
If downtime between driving to soccer games and piano lessons can be made as uptime, how cool would that be for you? Wish granted! You no longer need to drive anywhere for tutoring sessions. You don’t need to print worksheets for your child or hire an expensive tutor to come to your house to teach your child.
Thinkster does all of the above and more with significant convenience. Your child is never alone. Our iPad app and student web app make it very convenient to get timely help, and connected with dedicated and awesome tutors! The tutors provides daily monitoring, grading and feedback on digital worksheets that automatically get delivered to any tablet, computer or laptop you have. It's like having a Netflix-like service for learning math!
It is easy learning-on-the-go and in-the-minute convenience that makes many of our parents happy. Just talk to the ones who have their kids to complete math worksheets on the drive to piano lessons or soccer practice - you can hear effusive enthusiasm in their voices!!!
Don’t let life wait. Just download and go with Thinkster. Be a rockstar!
Your child only has 9 months of a school year to show an entire grade level improvement before they need to move up to a higher grade. That’s just 36 weeks! If you and your child invest time with a tutoring program, you want to make sure that learning improvement happens and can be guaranteed. We offer this guarantee exactly as you expect - because we’re parents too. We also realize that if you lose a few months with any tutoring program and do not see results, your child has to double up their effort to catch-up for lost time and focus on learning new material.
Our activity-based performance guarantee ensures that you can have peace of mind that Thinkster’s data-driven tutoring program will deliver results - guaranteed!
When you join Thinkster, you are looking to make sure that your child can progress in learning as many math concepts as quickly as possible - especially the ones they are expected to be good at at their grade level, at a particular month in the school year, and compared to their peers. We are barely touching the tip of the iceberg when it comes to your needs.
You also want to make sure that your child gains mastery, not just proficiency in each of the concepts that they are learning. Suffice to say that we can do a lot of these things much faster when we marry machine robustness (analyzing exceptions and patterns) with human intelligence and inherent ability to spot obvious trends without much effort.
The result is a very human approach to accelerating learning outcomes for each and every child in our program - and more specifically for YOUR child. Every new worksheet that is assigned to your child is hand curated (with machine recommendations behind them) to ensure maximizing engagement and learning and minimizing boredom and frustration.
These things take time of course - which is why we always recommend that your try our program for at least six months or a year. You always have our activity-based performance guarantee to back you up!
It would cost you at least $125 - $150 per month for Kumon. Then, add another $600 per month to hire a private tutor for daily monitoring, grading, feedback, private 1:1 tutoring sessions, high-quality curriculum… and many other features. A total that’s well over $725 per month!
Get The Performance Guarantee - Or Your Money Back!
We have seen that students who are enrolled for 6 months or more in PlatinumA+ plans do the following at minimum see significant success in our program. We are not surprised.
So how does our guarantee work?
Very simple. Students & Parents complete the following SIX simple activities and you should begin to see results.
Student completes a minimum of 10 worksheets every week
Student views 80% of all video tutorials that are assigned with the worksheets
Student reviews all worksheet feedback from the Thinkster tutor every day
Parents discuss & align to rolling 30-day objectives with the assigned tutor every month
Students attend a minimum of four tutoring sessions per month
Parents submit Net Promoter Score feedback every month
If after doing all this, if your child does not show improvement when comparing Thinkster assessments from the start of the program and end of month 6 (we always do a baseline assessment for your child, when you join), we will simply give your money back.
Well, yes! This will work for every child, no matter what their prior experiences have been. The only thing we ask is for is for both you and your child to do the work every week and you will begin to see the results very quickly.
Short answer: Yes! Most students struggle in math because they have not been able to have the disciplined approach of someone personalizing a learning program to their needs. The second most important factor is for students to be committed to the rigor of completing the weekly activities with support from parents to move the student along the process.
1. They complete a minimum of 10 worksheets each week.
2. They review every video tutorial before they attempt a worksheet.
3. They review graded feedback on worksheets from tutors everytime they get it.
4. Parents complete rolling 30-day objectives for their students every month in discussions with the assigned tutor.
5. Students show up to tutoring sessions minimum twice a month.
6. Parents submit Net Promoter Score feedback every month.
Right now, this program is only available to residents of the U.S. We will be expanding this elite program to the rest of the world in early next year.
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Raj Valli and I founded Thinkster. I am a data and statistics guy at heart. As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, I helped multi-billion dollar companies save money by making sure that their products and services will be of the highest quality. Six Sigma means having less than 3.4 defects per 1 million pieces of anything you produce - engines, coffee cups, your shirt...tutoring….anything! That’s outstanding almost defect-free quality!
I have worked for major multi-billion dollar corporations leading functional areas in marketing, finance, operations, strategy, and M&A, across Aerospace, Automotive, Life Sciences, Chemicals, Materials, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial Controls, BioTech, Services, and Software.
I have spent 20+ years volunteering my time to help provide basic education for underprivileged children.
Several years ago, my daughters were using a worksheets based math learning program (like Kumon, Mathnasium) to help accelerate their math learning.
I was frustrated by the lack of progress they were having in truly understanding math concepts. They were getting really good in the process of solving math problems in a very formulaic way without really understanding why they were doing what they were doing.
I looked everywhere for a math program that would let my daughter’s learn math for life and not just for a test or completing homework. I wanted a guaranteed approach to learning math. Not hope. But GUARANTEED! Like, Six-Sigma defect-free! I knew that if they had a real strong foundation in math, it would take them places. I found nothing other than a few books on the topic or needed to hire an excellent math tutor for $100/hour.
I decided to take matters into my own hands and looked for efficient and fool-proof ways of getting students to learn not only math, but develop a strong foundation in problem solving skills but also help them improve their critical thinking and logical reasoning skills. In short, I wanted them to develop the capacity to unpack and solve ANY problems in life - not just math problems.
My strategy worked so well, that it got my daughters to ace math in middle and high school and eventually also got them into the top Ivy League school and University.
I had other friends who were in a similar situation and were looking for a better math learning program.
So we decided to join hands and start Thinkster to help others with the method and now we service thousands of customers in 30+ countries.
Entrepreneur, Experienced Product & Operations Lead with expertise in e-commerce and B2C Start Up Co-founder
ex-Kumon Center Franchise Owner 10+ Years in Education Space
