A summer
without
the slide.
Kids lose around 30% of their math skills over a typical summer - more for older kids. One weekly session is enough to anchor the math, keep the habits alive, and send your kid back to September sharp instead of starting from scratch.
Twelve focused weeks. A weekly tutor session your kid will actually show up for - no app guilt, no worksheet battles, no summer-school vibe.
A weekly session with your tutor. Cancel any week, no annual commitment.
Set up a summer callThree reasons summer eats math.
Summer math loss isn't bad luck - it's mechanics. A few specific things break in specific ways. Each one has a counter, and one weekly anchor session covers all three.
Reading skills bounce back faster than math. Math fades because it's cumulative - the procedures you don't use, you lose. Studies put the typical math loss around 30%, more for older kids. The fall starts from a lower line than where June ended.
Dreambox, Prodigy, IXL - parents buy in May, kids open them in June, the streak dies by July. The thing that actually holds a habit through summer is an appointment, with a person, that your kid likes.
The first month back is when last year's gaps surface. Kids who stayed sharp don't show up at the back of the curve - they show up ready for the next thing. The cost of doing nothing is a fall spent re-catching-up.
What staying sharp looks like.
Four students from this past spring. The Grade 9 result is the one to watch if you just want your kid to hold ground - small absolute number, real outperformance, in the window where most students barely move. The rest show what's possible if you want more.
By Grade 9, typical seasonal growth slows to a crawl. This student moved from the 70th to the 73rd percentile in a single spring - two-and-a-half times the typical pace, in the window where most students barely budge. Holding ground is the floor; this is what's possible.
Entered the spring at the 99th percentile and stayed there. Underneath the flat percentile chart, growth ran nearly three times the typical pace. Even at the top of the line, the work moved them.
Started at the 90th percentile, finished at the 96th - more than two-and-a-half times faster than the typical Grade 4 student. The kind of acceleration advanced kids almost never get in a group setting.
And for range: a student who started below grade level finished above it in the same season. Same one-on-one, mastery-paced approach - pointed at a different starting line.
Four things every summer student gets.
The Recess Academy approach to math, run as a focused summer program - mastery-based, paced to the kid, taught by a tutor who stays with them all summer.
One scheduled hour a week with a real person your kid likes. The habit your apps couldn't build - because there's a tutor on the other end, not a streak counter.
Not a hundred random worksheet problems. The procedures and concepts most at risk for your kid specifically - chosen by a tutor who's seen the season's work, not a curriculum algorithm.
One adult who knows what your kid worked on last week and where to go this week. A consistent relationship through twelve weeks - which is what actually keeps the habit going.
A weekly recap of what your child worked on, where they've grown, and what comes next. So you can see the math is still moving - not just hope it is.
One hour a week. The math holds.
Light enough that it doesn't take over summer. Structured enough that the procedures stay live. A weekly anchor, not a season-long obligation.
Per week. One 60-minute session with your tutor. Cancel any week, no annual commitment.
Set up a summer callLive with a Recess tutor on Open School. One focused hour a week - enough to anchor the math without taking over the summer.
Not a daily worksheet battle. A small assignment matched to what was just covered - the minimum that keeps the procedures live without becoming a chore.
What we worked on, where they've held or grown, and what's next. So you can see September coming, instead of dreading it.
Twelve weeks. No slide.
Starting early gives your kid enough sessions to actually maintain - not just enough to feel like 'we did something.' By August, the math is still there. September feels normal.
Set up your summer math guarantee call.
Two minutes. We'll reach out within one business day to set the benchmark and tutor match.