Whether your child needs some extra help and encouragement in math or loves problem-solving and is looking for more of a challenge, these tutoring services, enrichment programs, outreach centers and websites offer support for every age, from pre-K to high school:
AAA Math
Online
This comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons has no cost or registration, so kids can practice math with a range of lessons from Kindergarten through grade 8. The pages have been translated into more than 100 languages.
AlphaMinds Academy
Hoboken, Jersey City
Classes in logic, math, reading, phonics, essay writing, chess, coding, and engineering help pre-K kids to 10th graders excel.
Bedtime Math
Online
Named Best Online Learning Games for Kids by the New York Times’ Wirecutter, Bedtime Math sends parents a new math problem every day that they can work on with their kids (typically ages 3 to 9) at bedtime. A short, fun story is followed by three math problems at three levels of challenge.
CAMathories
Summit
Classes teach math, art & design, and music in Cantonese, Mandarin, Ukrainian and English.
Chatham Learning Center
Chatham
Afterschool offerings include tutoring in math, reading, foreign language, writing and AP courses. There’s SAT and ACT test prep, or Orton Gillingham tutoring.
Common Core Sheets
Free worksheets and activities focus on math, spelling, reading, writing, science and social studies. Some of the math topics include angles, area and perimeter, balancing equations, bar graphs, box plots, decimals, line graphs, measurements, money, multistep programs, order of operations and percentages.
Eye Level Learning
Multiple locations
This group helps kids improve their problem-solving skills in math, and enhance skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Figure This!
Online
These math challenges are meant for families, and can be downloaded as PDFs in either black or color font, and in English or Spanish. There are dozens of options, plus homework help, family support, and math and literature.
Huntington Learning Center
Multiple locations
Kids from kindergarten through high school get one-on-one tutoring in math, reading, phonics, vocabulary, writing, science, study skills and test prep.
International Ivy
Basking Ridge, Chatham, Princeton, Saddle River, Scotch Plains, Short Hills, Somerset, Summit, Wayne
Academic enrichment programs in business and math include e-commerce, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, investment and the stock market, math competition training, money, and a Shark Tank Entrepreneur program. Additional programs focus on language arts, technology, and engineering and science.
JEI Learning Center
Multiple locations
JEI’s individualized, workbook, self-learning-based model includes classes (plus homework) in problem-solving, math, English, reading, writing, and critical and creative thinking.
Kids’ Money
Online
Kids will learn how to save, earn, spend and share money using math games based on allowances, budgeting, coin collecting, cash handling, investing and taxes. There are also links to board games, books, museums, piggy banks and videos that support learning.
KUMON
Multiple locations
Kumon offers worksheet-based learning and weekly classes for kids as young as 3 through high school to strengthen their math and English skills.
Learning Heroes
National (based in Virginia)
Learning Heroes is all about partnering with your school to best support your kid. Start with the grade your kid most recently completed and put them through the Readiness Check for math: they’ll answer five game-like questions that match their grade level, and you can see if they’re ready for the next step. Then, you’ll get activities and videos to help them at home.
Math Planet
Online
Math Planet is a free platform run by Mattecentrum. Geared toward teens, there is access to high school math courses in pre-algebra, algebra 1 and 2, and geometry. There are also prepared practice tests for the SAT and ACT.
Math Playground
Online
This site is designed to “give your brain a workout.” Kids in pre-K to eighth grade tackle fun math games, logic puzzles and story challenges to strengthen problem-solving, spatial reasoning, number sense and fact fluency.
A Math’s Dictionary for Kids
Online
Jenny Eather created these free, printable math charts to explain almost 1,000 common math terms into simple language with definitions, detailed visuals and online practice links.
Mathnasium
Multiple locations
The all math-based curriculum focuses on a combination of mental, verbal, visual, tactile and written exercises.
Mathstories.com
There are more than 15,000 online and printable word problems for kids in grades 1 to 6 to practice – and you can get them in English and Spanish. You have to log in, but access is free.
NJ Tutoring Corps
New Jersey
Tutors can be expensive, so Laura Overdeck, founde of Bedtime Math and co-founder of Wake Up Call New Jersey, helped launch the NJ Tutoring Corps to offer tutoring opportunities to kids who don’t meet grade level expectations in math and do not have the financial resources to get extra academic support. Kids and their tutor meet in small groups two to four times a week, for 30 to 60 minutes, to review assignments.
New Jersey Center for Teaching & Learning, Inc.
New Jersey
Free materials can be downloaded in a variety of skill areas for kindergarteners to Grade 8, plus high-school level courses like algebra, pre-calculus, honors calc and statistics. There are also integrated math and math intervention resources available.
Professor Freedman’s Math Help
Online
Basic math, algebra, study skills, and even math anxiety and learning styles are addressed through this website. There are quizzes, video tutorials, homework assignments and classroom tips. You can encourage your kids with awards and recognition, tips to reduce anxiety, and a math student pledge.
Somerset Learning Center
Raritan
SLC homework help and tutoring programs are offered in person and online in the math areas of pre-algebra, algebra 1 and 2, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus and statistics. Other subject areas include English, chemistry, physics, Spanish and social studies.
Sylvan Learning Center
Multiple locations
Sylvan offers custom tutoring in math, reading and writing, plus homework help, AP support, help with college essays and SAT/ACT prep.
Team Makers
Tenafly
Team Makers programs teach children to think outside the box, solve problems and gain new perspectives while playing games with other children. The Fun With Math and Science afterschool enrichment program uses sports games to teach statistics, erecting structures to teach building skills, and science projects to develop their reasoning and critical thinking skills.
Wake Up Call New Jersey
New Jersey
Wake Up Call is a nonprofit organization focused on helping public school parents have a better understanding of how their kids are doing in math. More specifically, the organization is working on highlighting what is sometimes a disconnect between report card grades and math skills as shown on standardized tests. There’s also a program called Math Checkups, where you can quiz your kids (by grade level) on skills like counting, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, mental math and word problems.
XtraMath
Online
XtraMath helps kids build math skills for 10 minutes a day, and it’s’ free. Get statted by creating an account, practicing daily, and reviewing progress reports.
The New Jersey School Boards Association has a range of family, teacher and technology resources for all subjects, including math, available here. If your child is neurodiverse, there is also a New Jersey Department of Education page dedicated to math resources and interventions for students with disabilities.
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