Mathnasium in Montclair has been so helpful to my son. They not only helped him study to score higher on the SAT last year but helped him when he was having difficulty with his junior year math class. I recommend them to anyone who asks. It has been a great experience for him. It is also easy to schedule. read more

We got a substitute tutor as our regular personcwS out of town. The substitute did not help at all and my son was panicking! Big test the next day. I called mathnasium and they said come on in. I dropped my son there one hour before they were to close. He said they were amazing!!!! So happy we tried mathnasium! read more

Didn't really help my child at all. I would not recommend this place if you want your child to be more interested in math. If you want a babysitter to watch your kids do extra math problems, then this is the place. They failed to explain the problem with my kid and let her work on one question for 30 mins. You can teach them yourself if that is the case. Such waste of money. read more

Mathnasium is basically math-daycare. If you want your child to actually be taught, go elsewhere. If you want to dump your child off for an hour or an hour and a half in a "math" environment, then by all means, Mathmasium is the place for you. First there is the required assessment, which the child is given (for the "nominal" fee of $49) to supposedly determine exactly what she knows coming in. However the assessment is actually just as a crutch for the "instructors" to be able to sit there and basically not teach. For instance, rather than address an area of the assessment in which my daughter scored 17%, the instructors will instead give the child page after page of worksheets on an area in which she scored 75%. So for an entire hour-and-a-half session, the instructor sits back and does almost nothing while the child does the same type of problems over and over. Then when the child finishes each stack of work sheets, she has to wait (sometimes as long as ten minutes) for the instructor, who is either checking one or two other children's worksheets or carrying on a personal conversation. Then when it comes to the instructor actually checking the worksheets, they often they mark answers wrong which turn out to be right. My daughter had a laundry list of examples of problems that were marked wrong and then overturned when she challenged the instructor. The instructors who were actually competent when it came to marking papers, still didn't do any actual teaching. Not only did they not proactively teach anything, but they didn't even reactively teach anything. They'd mark answers wrong and then send my daughter off to do them again. Then even if the child gets them all right - ten stacks of worksheets, all answers correct, 100% - the instructor will still send her back with another stack of the same type. They won't move on to the next subject until the next session...at the very minimum! Sometimes my daughter would finish a session having proven hands-down 100% her proficiency in area just to be greeted with the same type of worksheets when she'd arrive for the next session. There was actually one, just one, instructor, who actually tried to teach, and he was awful in his own way. He showed my daughter a long, convoluted way to do problems that she explained she already knew how to do in her head; he made her do them his way; he marked some wrong that my daughter showed him were right; he had her do some more; when she again started to work them out his way, he chastised her for not doing them "in her head". In the whole time my daughter was there (ten 1.5 hour sessions), she learned absolutely nothing new. One time she brought in her "summer packet" - math work that she has to do this summer before entering 8th grade - and asked for some help in a particular area. Her instructor had no idea how to do it. The other on-duty instructor had no idea how to do it. They started googling it to try to find out. The Director, Ms. Angela de la Rosa came over and spent a very quick minute explaining it to the instructors and walked away. They still had no idea how to do it and basically shrugged their shoulders at my daughter and decided that she should just go back to doing the same worksheets, once again repeating the same work she already knew, over and over. I only let this go on like it did, because it was my wife's deal, my wife's money. My wife and daughter twice spoke to Angela and told her that they expected more teaching, but nothing ever changed. I had visited Mathnasium with my daughter months prior and I liked Angela, and we had spoken of my daughter actually having a free session before we signed her up. Angela seemed agreeable to it, but we had other things going on at the time, and we never went back. Then this summer out of the blue, my wife insisted my daughter was going there. I told her to do a trial session, but she didn't want to. I told her to email Angela (to put it on record) when I saw how bad this place was run, but she didn't want to. So she wasted $500-plus (of her money, not mine), and she deludes herself that all-in-all it was worth it for "math practice" LOL. So, if you still want to try this place, my advice is: (1) Ask for a FREE session before you pay for ANYTHING (2) If you join, pay by cc so you have recourse in case you need to try to get your money back (3) Make any complaints by email so you can show your cc company if necessary. To me, it's not worth it to even try it. I don't think it is possible to keep this place on its toes enough to get your money's worth. read more

I am amazed at how much difference Mathnasium has made with my daughter's confidence in math since she started there last summer. She now thinks that math is her best subject. She tells me that she finishes her math work in class early and helps her classmates work out some problems. I don't know how they do it, but Mathnasium somehow makes math fun for my kid. She enjoys going there so much that she asked me if she could go there twice a week in the summer. ...and as long as we can make it work, we'll keep letting her go. read more

The owner and tutors are friendly and responsive and take great care to cater to the child's individual needs.