Every day, students around the world attend Mathnasium learning centers to boost their math skills. We are highly specialized; we teach only math. Members usually attend two or three times a week for about an hour.
Our goal is to significantly increase your child's math skills, understanding of math concepts, and overall school performance, while building confidence and forging a positive attitude toward the subject.
"Children don't hate math.
They hate being confused and intimidated by math.
With understanding comes passion.
And with passion comes growth a treasure is unlocked."
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More than thirty-five years ago, Larry Martinek was inspired to find a better way to teach children math. In his work with both stellar and struggling math programs, he clearly identified a common theme in mathematics instruction: a "serious disconnect between students' basic skills training and the curriculum they are expected to master in the years to come."
Spurred by the challenges in math education, Larry dedicated his time to finding an approach that would provide grade-school children with the strong mathematical foundation they need to succeed.
For the next three decades, Larry painstakingly blended a number of methods and materials that proved highly effective for students of all ages. Instead of relying on traditional rote memorization and repetitive exercises, Larry's work focused on helping children build deep mathematical understanding number sense by honing their math instincts and getting them to think like Mathematicians.
As Larry's innovative materials gained increasingly wide circulation over the years, he became recognized in Los Angeles as "Larry, The Math Guy." Schools began teaching from his materials instead of their textbooks, and test scores skyrocketed at every grade he impacted within two years. He gradually expanded his work to develop a complete and integrated curriculum from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade math.
In the spring of 2002, Larry's dream came true. Peter Markovitz and David Ullendorff, leaders in the education industry, made Larry and his curriculum the driving force of Mathnasium. Students of all ages found the curriculum to be incredibly powerful and engaging. Larry introduced his curriculum as the Mathnasium Method at their first math learning center in Westwood, California. Over the years, centers have sprung up across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.