Fall is the best time to sign up for after-school activities, math included! Here's why:
Knowing How to Think Is Important
Just because a child participates in an extracurricular activity, that doesn’t mean it has to affect their future career. Most children participate in a sport growing up, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they will become professional athletes. The ability to think critically, logically, and creatively varies from person to person. It’s an ability that is highly rewarded regardless of the profession someone chooses. Additional math education can help because math happens to be the best tool humans currently have with which to develop the mind and ability to think.
This article is sponsored by the Russian School of Mathematics.
A Child’s Potential Isn’t Determined at Birth
So often we hear, “My child just isn't a math person.” Struggling is not akin to a lack of ability, and many students struggle because the subject wasn't properly introduced. Young children are capable of abstract reasoning and higher-order thinking, much more so than their older peers, so starting early matters. When an elementary school student is introduced to mathematics properly, research has shown that their cognitive development is pushed forward.
Math Is Fun
Math is often taught as a series of unconnected facts to be memorized through grit. We see mathematics differently. Math is a language, a lens through which to understand the world. Being in this kind of environment is contagious, children catch on to a love of learning that stays with them throughout their lives.
Math Classes Currently Enrolling
RSM is currently enrolling students in math classes for the 2025-2026 academic year!
View the class schedules for RSM branches in Massachusetts.
To get started, schedule an evaluation for your child today. Student evaluations at RSM are 30-minute introductory sessions where parents and their children have the opportunity to learn about the RSM program and get to know the team.
About the Russian School of Mathematics
Russian School of Mathematics' (RSM) unique approach consists of a continuous K-12 curriculum, taught by expert teachers, in a classroom environment of peers who study together year over year.
An award winning math program: RSM has been trusted by parents for over 25 years across 75+ locations in North America, with 16 locations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. RSM helps children develop math fluency, intellect, and character, empowering them for life.
A program built around how a child's mind works: Our curriculum was developed by our team of academics specializing in mathematics, education, and child development and has continually been perfected by our curriculum department over the last 25+ years.
Multiple levels for every grade: Three levels for every grade allows us to meet children where they are and place them in an environment suited to them. This ensures that students can begin our program at any time and be challenged appropriately in an environment of peers.
Talented faculty: All of our teachers have a background in mathematics or a related field and a deep passion for the subject.
