We look one grade below the mark.
You find out what's actually wrong. Two 45-minute live classes a week. You get it in writing.
- You find out what's actually wrongGrades 5 to 9: a short diagnostic names the idea underneath the mark. Every question is asked twice — once on an object they can touch, once in numerals. Grades 10 to 12 start with a placement conversation. The diagnostic and the report cost nothing.
- You get it in writingThe named cause, the evidence it was found from, and one thing to ask your child to show you. It never asks you to teach.
- Two 45-minute live classes a weekFirst is the lesson. Second takes up the work. Twelve, because the instructor starts the term already knowing what each child is stuck on. The time goes on those twelve specific things rather than on finding them.
Instructors are 18 or over and hold a vulnerable sector check, verified before any contact with a child. We recruit from supply teachers, teacher's college candidates and community-school teachers.
Every question is asked twice
Once on an object the child can touch, once in numerals. The same relationship, both ways. A worksheet only ever asks one way, so both of these look identical on a mark.
Right on the strip, wrong in the numbers
A translation gap. The understanding is there and has not attached to the notation yet. This is the most common thing we find.
Right in the numbers, wrong on the strip
A procedure without the idea underneath it. It passes tests until the question is asked a different way, then it collapses.
On a worksheet, identical
Both are simply marked wrong. Neither is findable from a report card.
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.
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.
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 names the chain, not the node: the trouble showing up in this term's work is an idea from last year that nobody checked.
A footnote on the diagnostic
It runs on your own tablet or computer. Grades 5 to 9. Nothing is transmitted while your child is using it. There is no score, no timer, and no red cross. Every item has “I haven't learned this yet,” because a guess and a gap are different findings.
At the end, the child sees what they made. That is all. You get the report.
Get it in writing
You read a report about your own child before you decide anything about a class.
Get your child's report — free