About us
A maths academy built around one stubborn idea
Almost no child is bad at maths. Most have simply been moved past something they never understood, and every topic after it was built on that gap.
Find the gap, teach the gap, then prove it stayed
A learner struggling with quadratic equations is often not struggling with quadratic equations. They are struggling with negative numbers, or with factors, from three years earlier. Teaching the topic in front of them again, louder and slower, does not work.
So we start every learner with an assessment class before we take any money. We work backwards until we find the last thing they genuinely understood, and we start teaching there. Sometimes that means going back further than a parent expects. It is always faster in the end.
After that the rhythm is simple: teach the idea, work through it together, let them try it alone while we watch, then check again a week later to see whether it stayed. Marks follow understanding. We have never seen it happen the other way round.
Why hybrid
Some learners need a classroom, a fixed time and a teacher standing over the desk. Others lose an hour a day to traffic, or live nowhere near a decent maths tutor, or are outside Nigeria entirely. Running the academy as a hybrid means one learner does not have to lose out because of geography.
The class is the same either way. Same teacher, same worksheet, same questions asked out loud. A learner can sit in the centre one week and join from home the next, and pick up exactly where the class is.
Who your child will actually sit with
Princess Bassey Akpan
Founder and Lead Maths Tutor
BSc Statistics, University of Uyo. Former Senior Statistics Lecturer. Teaching maths since 2012.
Start with a free assessment class
One lesson, no charge. We find out exactly where the gaps are, tell you honestly what we think, and you decide from there.