How To Get Free Online Math Tutoring From Trained Math Teaching Experts
Looking for free online math tutoring? You’ve likely come across an overwhelming array of tutoring websites that ‘answer questions online’ through instant, app-style, on-demand math troubleshooting services such as math homework help, chatbots or recorded videos.
Here, we’re going to tell you how to secure online math tutoring with differentiated instruction for your students!
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If not, let’s dig into how to get free online math tutoring designed with expertise to get results in math.
What can you expect from free online math tutoring?
Tutoring is one of the best ways to support a student to make progress in math, but it can cost a considerable amount of time and money to make it a success.
The research on the effects of tutoring has been monitored for years but has especially been researched in the aftermath of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a report from Teach for America, students have been shown to recover up to 2.5 years of math over the course of a single academic year when tutoring is provided more than once a week, and consistently over a school year.
Online tutoring provides similar success but with greater convenience.
At Third Space Learning, it’s our mission to ensure all students achieve in math, regardless of their background. We offer affordable AI tutoring for math in which students connect with Skye, the AI math tutor, to receive one-on-one support. Each session follows a curriculum of lessons designed by former teachers with expertise in math.
Across our programs, you can expect to see not only a measurable impact on learners’ achievement, but also an improvement in attitude, confidence, and engagement.
For schools interested in seeing the impact AI tutoring with Skye could have on their students, get in touch with our team to check if your school is eligible to schedule a free math tutoring trial for up to 20 students.
How free online math tutoring works
Here at Third Space Learning, we personalize the online tutoring sessions in response to the needs of your student; no tutoring session is ever the same! Our virtual classroom allows for the student and AI math tutor, Skye, to connect and communicate in real-time, using whiteboard tools and voice, in turn closing individual gaps and deepening understanding.
Lessons are broken down into four stages, encouraging students to move from guided to independent practice. Because our tutoring is one-on-one, you can feel confident knowing that Skye is focusing on the needs of each individual student, and going at a pace that’s right for them.
- You choose which students receive tutoring
- You choose when the students receive tutoring
- You choose how often students receive tutoring
In a rush? Why not find out more about how it works?
Benefits of free online math tutoring
We’ve embraced all the benefits of math tutoring, and taken them online and leveraged AI to:
- Provide students with personalized support; no wasted lesson time, no generic worksheets. Every session works towards learners’ academic goals.
- Free up teachers time by not having them worry about target students; leave us to take care of their additional math needs.
- Design engaging online tutoring that motivates students to try their best and work hard; watch as their engagement is channeled back into the classroom.
Comparing Third Space Learning to other free online math tutoring
Let’s be honest, there are lots of organizations offering free online tutoring.
Many of these are brilliant companies such as Khan Academy, working hard to support US school students just like we are. But what they’re offering is principally enhanced math homework help, rather than the one-on-one, dedicated, personalized instruction your students will receive from Third Space Learning.
Online math tutoring is more than just math homework help. This isn’t about plugging in an equation and getting assistance with a single solution, or printing out a worksheet for independent practice.
Math online tutoring is about providing students with content that will help with the fundamentals of learning different concepts. Math online tutoring is about building solid math foundations and preparing for long-term success in K 12 education and beyond through scaffolded learning, differentiation and verbalized reasoning.
What students say about free online math tutoring
It’s all very well hearing from us, but what do our students have to say?
“I found this lesson very useful. I will remember a lot from this lesson.” – Emily, Third Space Learning student, age 10
“I like the lesson because I learnt new things and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed learning how to see how to place numbers on a number line” – Taylor, Third Space Learning student, age 11
“I am happy with Third Space Learning, they are helping me a lot and I’m getting better at math.” – Olivia, Third Space Learning student, age 11
What teachers say about free online math tutoring
Third Space Learning’s AI math tutor has reinvigorated some of our most reluctant learners. They are engaged in math learning twice a week for 30 minutes, and they are so excited. As students solve problems and explain their mathematical reasoning with Skye aloud, teachers and I get some insight into their thinking processes that helps inform class teaching.
Ryan Lucas, Principal, Governor’s Ranch, Colorado
We needed to give extra instruction for certain students. With Third Space Learning, 24 of our students are learning math one-on-one at once. We would never have the amount of resources to be able to do that in house. Out of everyone who has taken part in the math tutoring, everyone’s scores have increased and they’ve said they have a better understanding of math.
Liz Avery, Math Instructional Coach, Renaissance Academy Charter School, New York
You can read more about what educators like you have to say about our AI tutoring by reading Vice Principal Neil Almond’s AI tutor review and edtech expert Jodie Lopez’s independent assessment of Skye.
Topics your students can study in Third Space Learning’s tutoring sessions
Third Space Learning has got your state math standards covered.
How? Because students are asked relevant math questions to deepen their understanding. Plus, our math lessons are created to cover all of the big math subject areas, including decimals and fractions, and move at your students’ own pace.
Our lessons are fully aligned with the Common Core State Standards and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards. Each lesson follows the same pedagogically-informed structure to focus on refining math skills, including real-world math problems.
Let’s look at a couple of these lessons in more detail!
The 4th grade ‘Number and Operations in Base 10’ unit includes lessons on:
- Interpreting and representing place value;
- Comparing and ordering numbers;
- Rounding whole numbers;
- Adding and subtracting whole numbers;
- Representing and multiplying 4-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers, and 2-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers;
- Representing and dividing 4-digit dividends by 1-digit divisors.
The 5th grade ‘Number and Operations in Base 10’ unit includes lessons on:
- Interpreting and representing place value;
- Comparing and ordering decimals to the thousandths place;
- Rounding whole numbers and decimals to the hundredths place;
- Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing with decimals to the hundredths place;
- Multiplying multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm;
- Finding whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors.
5 reasons why online tutoring in math is beneficial
1. Increased grade-level math knowledge
We all hope that the students in our lives are successful in math class and online tutoring can help. It’s no secret that 4th and 5th-grade math classes are packed full of new topics and ideas. Online math tutoring can be used to pre-teach these topics so that your students are ready to go when they are introduced in the classroom. Tutoring can also be used to combat the ‘summer slide’ after the holidays.
2. Improvement of confidence and math talk
Adults are the first to admit they “are bad at math”. Online math tutoring can help your students build the confidence they need to answer questions in class and participate in discussions. Tutoring involves a lot of communication, and students get:
- Regular prompts e.g. sentence stems
- Feedback on successes
- Support with challenges
3. Problem-solving and word problems
Your student may be the best at solving equations and identifying shapes, but the second they are expected to read and analyze a word problem, they shut down.
Online tutoring can assist students with strategies and techniques that will help them conquer the dreaded ‘word problems’. This will set your students up nicely for their end-of-year exams, which are often full of word problems to comprehend.
Because online tutoring is typically in a small group, or one-on-one setting (like Third Space Learning), students feel more comfortable with asking questions and participating, over being in a classroom with 25 other students.
4. State math standards
We’re aware that each state in the US does things a little bit differently. We’re all about making sure that your state standards are covered the way students would learn them in their own classroom.
A lot of the free online math tutoring sites have their lessons aligned to the Common Core standards. Here at Third Space Learning, we know that not all 50 states follow the same math standards. So, we’ve created state-specific learning opportunities for those states that don’t follow Common Core, such as Texas.
5. More individualized attention
Today, typical classrooms could have anywhere between 20 and 30 students per teacher. It can be very difficult for a math teacher to give one student a lot of one-on-one attention, especially if they’re on target and just struggling a little bit.
While group-based online tutoring with fewer students is great, tutors still have to divide their time between multiple students. We’ve found that students can only get the most individualized attention through one-on-one tutoring.
How you can use free online math tutoring in school
Understandably, a concern that we hear from schools is time constraints.
“There just isn’t time to organize one-on-one in my school.”
However, if you choose to provide one-on-one math tuition through an external provider (like Third Space Learning), it keeps teachers free to do what they do best!
A good provider will be aware of how precious time is to a teacher. This is why teachers who use Third Space Learning one-on-one tutoring can organize a minimum of 10 hours of teaching time per week in just 10 minutes.
Third Space Learning also provides regular reports for each student so teachers can keep track of their progress; that’s one more job off the list!
Let’s take a quick look at a few of the approaches for implementing our online math tutoring in your school…
1. During scheduled intervention period
Small group intervention time is crucial for teachers to help students fill in gaps, but we know you can only reach so many students during the given time. Online math tutoring can help give more students more time during this period.
Who said intervention had to be tough?
2. After-school or before-school tutoring
Sometimes, there are more students who need tutoring before or after school than there is available staff. This can be due to staffing shortages or the need for staff to physically be somewhere else within the school.
To solve this, online tutoring only requires one teacher to monitor a computer lab while multiple students are participating in their individual tutoring sessions with the AI tutor. It’s a win-win; fewer teachers are stretched, and more students benefit from critical extra learning.
3. Test prep
Imagine it’s the end of the year, and you’ve identified your students’ strengths and weaknesses going into the EOY assessment. Because online tutoring can be personalized to meet individual student’s needs, you can feel safe in the knowledge that they are getting help with exactly what they need.
Who to target with free online math tutoring
When it comes to free online math tutoring, you should target:
- Students who are struggling with math concepts in the current grade level
- Students who have gaps in their learning from previous grade levels
That being said, all students can benefit from free online math tutoring. Tutoring can also be presented as enrichment for students to stretch their learning in different ways and prepare them for middle school, high school and beyond.
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To get math help online for free, explore Third Space Learning’s expertly created and pedagogically grounded library of free math resources. These resources also support our affordable one-on-one AI math tutoring programs to consolidate learning.
The best math tutor is one who is highly qualified and trained to teach according to a student’s needs. Third Space Learning’s approach to delivering this standard has transitioned to the AI math tutor, Skye, which has been developed by former teachers and math experts and trained using the insights we’ve gathered from over a decade of experience providing online tutoring.
Get in touch with us to discuss your schools’ eligibility and to schedule a trial of AI math tutoring with Skye for free. Experience for yourself how AI tutoring can help learners build confidence and succeed in math over the course of just a few weeks!
Do you have students who need extra support in math?
Skye—our AI math tutor built by experienced teachers—provides students with personalized one-on-one, spoken instruction that helps them master concepts, close skill gaps, and gain confidence.
Since 2013, we’ve delivered over 2 million hours of math lessons to more than 170,000 students, guiding them toward higher math achievement.
Discover how our AI math tutoring can boost student success, or see how our math programs can support your school’s goals:
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