Math Masters Programs
Extensive data from Ontario’s provincial assessments, along with ongoing curriculum reviews and education research, consistently highlight that many elementary students, and even high school students, are not yet secure in key foundational math skills.
In particular, recent EQAO results show that just over half of Grade 6 students and less than 60% of Grade 9 students are meeting the provincial standard in mathematics. This suggests that many learners are progressing through the curriculum without fully consolidating core concepts such as number sense, computation, and fraction understanding.
While EQAO results from 2024-2025 show that 75% of Grade 3 students met or exceeded the provincial standard, don't let that percentage fool you. A student does not need a perfect score to hit Level 3. They can completely fail fractions or multiplication questions, but if they get enough of the simpler questions right, they still land in that 75% success bracket. If a student struggles with the initial question, the computer automatically routes them to a simpler set of questions for the next page. While this prevents students from feeling overwhelmed, it means a struggling student can correctly answer a series of easier, lower-grade-level questions and still get a score that squeezes them into the Level 3 bracket. This is why parents often do not understand why their Grade 3 student, who did so well in math, is now struggling in later grades.
Education research has also long identified foundational fluency—especially in number operations—as a critical factor in later success with more advanced topics such as fractions, ratios, and algebraic reasoning. When these early skills are not secure, students often experience increasing difficulty as mathematical concepts become more abstract.
Fractions, in particular, are widely recognized in both curriculum documents and academic literature as a key transition point in mathematical learning. The Ontario Ministry of Education’s resource Paying Attention to Fractions highlights that fractions are a common area of difficulty for students, and that misunderstandings can persist, if conceptual understanding is not firmly established in the earlier grades.
This is why I created a structured learning pathway that strengthens foundational understanding first, then develops accuracy, fluency, and mathematical confidence over time. My programs are organized into three core strands. Each program is carefully structured to meet students where they are, whether they need to rebuild foundational understanding or strengthen existing skills. Together, they form a clear progression from early number sense through to confident mathematical problem-solving.
Suggested grade levels are documented, but they are only suggestions. If you are unsure about where to place your child, please reach out.
In particular, recent EQAO results show that just over half of Grade 6 students and less than 60% of Grade 9 students are meeting the provincial standard in mathematics. This suggests that many learners are progressing through the curriculum without fully consolidating core concepts such as number sense, computation, and fraction understanding.
While EQAO results from 2024-2025 show that 75% of Grade 3 students met or exceeded the provincial standard, don't let that percentage fool you. A student does not need a perfect score to hit Level 3. They can completely fail fractions or multiplication questions, but if they get enough of the simpler questions right, they still land in that 75% success bracket. If a student struggles with the initial question, the computer automatically routes them to a simpler set of questions for the next page. While this prevents students from feeling overwhelmed, it means a struggling student can correctly answer a series of easier, lower-grade-level questions and still get a score that squeezes them into the Level 3 bracket. This is why parents often do not understand why their Grade 3 student, who did so well in math, is now struggling in later grades.
Education research has also long identified foundational fluency—especially in number operations—as a critical factor in later success with more advanced topics such as fractions, ratios, and algebraic reasoning. When these early skills are not secure, students often experience increasing difficulty as mathematical concepts become more abstract.
Fractions, in particular, are widely recognized in both curriculum documents and academic literature as a key transition point in mathematical learning. The Ontario Ministry of Education’s resource Paying Attention to Fractions highlights that fractions are a common area of difficulty for students, and that misunderstandings can persist, if conceptual understanding is not firmly established in the earlier grades.
This is why I created a structured learning pathway that strengthens foundational understanding first, then develops accuracy, fluency, and mathematical confidence over time. My programs are organized into three core strands. Each program is carefully structured to meet students where they are, whether they need to rebuild foundational understanding or strengthen existing skills. Together, they form a clear progression from early number sense through to confident mathematical problem-solving.
Suggested grade levels are documented, but they are only suggestions. If you are unsure about where to place your child, please reach out.
Number Sense Masters
🟡 Number Sense Foundations
Goal: Understanding numbers, build strong number sense and calculation confidence.
Focus:
- Number bonds
- Doubles and near doubles
- Making 10, 20, 50 strategies
- Addition fluency
- Subtraction fluency
- Place value (ones, tens, beginning hundreds)
- Mental math strategies
- Introduction to regrouping
- Problem-solving with addition and subtraction
- Skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s
Suggested Grades: Grade 1-2 level (although also appropriate for any struggling student)
Fee: $280.00 + HST (12 x 30-minute classes)
🟠 Number Sense Fluency
Goal: Use numbers confidently, strengthen calculation skills, and prepare students for multiplication mastery.
Focus:
- Addition and subtraction fluency
- Regrouping with confidence
- Mental math strategies
- Place value to hundreds & thousands
- Number patterns
- Fact families
- Word problems
- Multi-step calculations
- Skip counting
Suggested Grades: Grade 3-4 level (although also appropriate for any struggling student)
Fee: $280.00 + HST (8 x 45-minute classes)
Multiplication & Division (Early Learning)
🟡 Multiplication & Division Explorers
Goal: Build multiplication and division conceptual understanding through models, arrays, grouping, and sharing.
Focus:
Note: This is not a fact fluency program, so no memorization of facts is required. This is an intro to understanding multiplication and division.
Suggested Grades: Grade 1-3 level (although also appropriate for any struggling student)
Fee: $280.00 + HST (12 x 30-minute classes)
Goal: Build multiplication and division conceptual understanding through models, arrays, grouping, and sharing.
Focus:
- Equal groups
- Repeated addition
- Arrays
- Sharing equally
- Grouping objects
- Skip counting
- Introduction to multiplication and division vocabulary
- Simple one-step word problems
Note: This is not a fact fluency program, so no memorization of facts is required. This is an intro to understanding multiplication and division.
Suggested Grades: Grade 1-3 level (although also appropriate for any struggling student)
Fee: $280.00 + HST (12 x 30-minute classes)
Multiplication Masters (Focus on Building Fact Fluency)
🟡 Multiplication Masters Foundations
Goal: Build multiplication fact fluency through conceptual understanding.
Focus:
- understanding multiplication
- building facts up to 10×
- arrays, grouping, visual models
- beginning fluency
Suggested Grades: Grade 3-4 level
Fee: $280.00 + HST (12 x 30-minute classes)
🔵 Multiplication Masters Fluency
Goal: Build multiplication fact fluency with a focus on speed and automatic recall as well as applying facts to other grade level math concepts.
Focus:
- full 12× table
- speed + accuracy
- mixed fact recall
- strategies for mental math
- confidence rebuilding if gaps exist
- applying facts to grade level requirements such as decimals, fractions, integers
Suggested Grades: Grade 4+
Fee: $280.00 + HST (8 x 45-minute classes)
Fraction Masters
🟡 Fraction Masters Foundations
Goal: Build an understanding of what fractions are.
Focus:
- What fractions represent
- Numerator and denominator
- Equivalent fractions
- Comparing fractions
- Fractions on a number line
- Mixed numbers and improper fractions
- Basic fraction-decimal connections
Suggested Grades: Grade 3-4 level
Fee: $280.00 + HST (12 x 30-minute classes)
🔵 Fraction Masters Fluency
Goal: Build confidence, accuracy, and problem-solving. Show what you can do with fractions.
Focus:
- Simplifying fractions
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Multiplying fractions
- Dividing fractions
- Mixed operations
- Fractions, decimals, and percentages
- Word problems
- Real-world applications
Suggested Grades: Grade 5-8 level
Fee: $280.00 + HST (8 x 45-minute classes)
"The only way to learn mathematics
is to do mathematics."
Paul Halmos
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