Develop Problem-Solving Minds and a Lifelong Love of Learning
We strive to offer the best math and logic enrichment education possible on campus at our partner schools and other convenient locations through small-sized, highly personalized lessons that focus on developing math abstract thinking led by expertly trained and skilled instructors and designed with the contribution of our world-class advisors.
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Our Differences
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Tiny Classes Featuring 1:1 Guidance
While our competitors offer classes with 10 or more students, we group students at similar proficiency levels in tiny classes of 2-4 students for our platinum tier, 5-6 students for our gold tier, and 7-8 students for our silver tier. Their learning experience is significantly more productive due to the 1:1 dialogs they enjoy investigating math while benefiting from individually calibrated challenges. We don't use canned lesson plans but adapt real-time to our students' progress. Our high-touch experience further includes a lesson recap and customized homework assignments shared after each class.
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Develop Problem-Solving Minds
Using evidence-based research and time-tested best practices, we develop abstract thinking and expose our students to more advanced topics in an engaging and level-appropriate way. Examples of such topics include combinatorics, recursive functions, modular arithmetic, number theory, mathematical proof, set theory, and various problem-solving strategies such as “guess and check”, “finding patterns”, and “drawing diagrams”. Learn more
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Social & Engaging Hands-On Activities
We offer in-person classes that include various hands-on activities to minimize screen time and maximize engagement. Children learn the best by engaging all their senses, building genuine human connections, and experiencing math through a rich set of problems, games, and activities. They also develop the habit of using pencils and paper to solve math problems.
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Rigorous and Personalized Curriculum
We customize our lessons based on our students’ individual needs and complement each partner school's daytime math curriculum. For the advanced students, we skip the topics they have already mastered, expand their knowledge by teaching post-secondary topics (e.g., combinatorics, number theory), and help them prepare for math contests. For those who need additional support to solidify their mastery of certain foundational topics, we use visual aids, games and puzzles to provide individualized hands-on support. Learn more
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Compassionate Expert Instructors
We hire instructors with a solid background in math or related fields, a passion for education, and experience teaching math. We further rigorously train and coach them in teaching best practices using our proprietary methods developed based on the latest research and proven success with contribution from our world-class advisors. We strive to make math learning enjoyable through our nurturing approach. Learn more
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Convenient For You
No need to shuttle your children from schools to learning centers on busy weekdays. We teach directly on campus through school partnerships. Learn more
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How We Started
Growing up in a Chinese family rich in math traditions, I was looking for the ideal math and logic education for my child. In addition to a rigorous and fun curriculum, I envisioned it to provide the benefits of both 1:1 tutoring based on Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem and the social motivation from learning through solving puzzles and playing games with peers in person.
After having my child try many existing offerings in the market, I found them too rigid, too dry, and lacking the individualized teaching only micro class sizes and expertly trained instructors who use best practices developed based on the latest evidence-based research findings.
Online classes are even less effective, as many research studies have shown. After failing to find a satisfying solution, I taught my son and his friends myself. They learned much more and had fun.
Therefore, I left my executive career and started Descartes Learning Club to offer the best math and logic after-school learning experience I would like my child to have because many more children deserve this to achieve greatness in life.
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