How it works

We look one grade below the mark.

The class is Grade 9 MTH1W. Two 45-minute live sessions a week. You get it in writing.

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How a week works

Weeknight: the lesson. Then a practice sheet at home. The weekend class starts with a quick problem that shows where each child got stuck, and works on exactly that. Then you get a weekly email.

Weeknight lesson45 minutes, live on Google Meet. That week's Grade 9 lesson, including the earlier-grade repair in weeks 1 to 4.
Practice sheetOn screen or printed, with an answer key. Your child checks their own work. Nothing is marked or scored.
Weekend class45 minutes. It opens with a short live problem that shows where the thinking stopped. The rest of the class works on exactly that, using activities prepared in advance.
Your weekly emailFrom the teacher's notes, read and approved before it reaches you. What they got stuck on, what the teacher saw, and one question to ask at home. Never a score. See a sample report.

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Then we walk backwards

When a child is stuck on this term's unit, we check whether the idea underneath it is solid before concluding anything about the unit itself.

Grade 9

Ratios and rates

This is the MTH1W work the homework asks for. When a child is stuck here, we check the idea underneath it before reteaching the top.

Grade 6

Adding and subtracting fractions

Unlike denominators. This is what the test was on and what the mark was for. It is where a parent notices something is wrong.

Grade 5

Equivalent fractions

You cannot express halves and thirds as sixths without it. If this is not solid, the Grade 6 failure is a symptom — and teaching Grade 6 harder will not move it.

The report tells you where the trouble started, not just where it showed up: often an idea from an earlier grade that nobody checked.

Hand this to your child. Ten seconds.

½ + ⅓ = ?

Thanks! Please hand this back to your parent.

What we look for

½ + ⅓on sixths

½a half

⅖on fifths

One thing to ask at home"Is your answer bigger or smaller than the half you started with?"

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Nothing your child taps here is saved or sent. One question is not a diagnosis.

If math suddenly got hard this year, it usually didn't start this year.

A gap that was easy to work around earlier turns up as a wrong answer in a Grade 9 ratio question. More practice on this year's topic often doesn't help, because the gap is older. Finding it does.

Earlier

One half plus one third becomes two fifths: tops added, bottoms added. It gets by, mostly.

Grade 9

The same habit hides inside ratios, rates and percentages, and looks like a Grade 9 problem.

Grades 10 to 12

Algebra with fractions in it, then functions. The old habit is still there, under newer work. Register your interest.

What you'd hear from us, every week

Not a score. What your child got stuck on, how we know, what the next class does about it, and one thing to ask at home.

Written from what the teacher saw. A five-minute problem opens the weekend class, and the teacher notes how each child is thinking, not just whether the answer was right. That is what the weekly email is built from.

Causes, not marks. No percentages, no grades, and we never compare your child to anyone.

Honest when it's early. If we haven't seen a clear pattern yet, the report says so.

Weekly email · an example, not a real child

Adds the tops and the bottoms

Your child adds fractions the way they add whole numbers: top plus top, bottom plus bottom. One half plus one third becomes two fifths. The answer is smaller than the half they started with, which is the giveaway.

What the teacher saw: adding one half and one third on strips of sixths, they shaded 2 of 6, the two top numbers, ignoring the sizes.

One thing to ask at home"Is your answer bigger or smaller than the half you started with?"

From the teacher. Next class works on adding fractions with different-sized parts. Read and approved by a person before it reaches you.

Grade 9 starts the week of 9 November 2026

Grades 5 to 8 are now reserving for January. Reserve a place. Grades 10 to 12: register your interest.

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