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Anonymous wrote:What age?

Going into 6th. Is that too old for a Mathnasium-type program?

My kid started Mathnasium in 6th grade. She did 3 years, took a small break and is now doing Mathnasium again for pre-calc and SAT prep

Anonymous wrote:We should have gotten one last year rather than have DH serve in the role. Did you go to one of the corporate places, look on NextDoor/MONA, ask around...What yielded a tutor you and your child were happy with?

Asked math teacher who they knew who might be good.

Craigslist he was a student at Georgetown.

Anonymous wrote:We should have gotten one last year rather than have DH serve in the role. Did you go to one of the corporate places, look on NextDoor/MONA, ask around...What yielded a tutor you and your child were happy with?

We used a virtual tutor found through Tutor.com. Bad idea. We found a TJHSST kid via neighborhood ListServ that did in person tutoring for our DC and it was great. Used him for two years until he graduated and went off to college. Had to go back to a virtual tutor this year that we found on Craigslist.

We used an APS teacher from the list that we got from my kid's school's math supervisor. However, the tutoring was virtual, so we might just as well have gone with a service. (That teacher was good, just saying that we used an online tutoring company a couple years later and the experience--working over a screen--wasn't a lot different.) The online company was Outschool, which has classes but also facilitates 1-on-1 tutoring.

Anonymous wrote:Second for Mathnasium, but your child has to go more than once a week.

My kid is a tutor there, so that is nice to hear.

In reference to the earlier question about age levels, they have two levels of testing for tutor qualification so they do have tutors for older kids.

Ask teachers at your child's school. We know two APS teachers that have their own tutoring company (employing other APS teachers) on the side.

We used both an APS math teacher from another school (our kid's school provided us with a list of APS teachers that tutor in various subjects) a couple of years ago and we used 1-on-1 tutoring through Outschool last year. Both were virtual because the APS teacher tutoring was during the pandemic, both were very helpful. Kids are used to using Google docs, looking at things on screen, working with someone who is virtual, etc so I think the important thing is tutoring being 1-on-1, not it being in person.