Just like professional mentoring, math mentoring is all about having an experienced mentor (Process > Answer) guide and support a less experienced individual (the student) in a dynamic and supportive way to help them grow.

At Process > Answer, we go beyond traditional tutoring by guiding students to uncover the strategies that resonate most with their own intuition and strengths, rather than teaching a one-size-fits-all method. The goal is not the completion of a specific homework or test, but the longer-term building of confidence and agency, and with that will come academic success.

Each session will be a collaborative journey where students explore, test, and refine their personal approach to math, not just to get the right answers, but to understand how they got there and why their process works for them. By the end of each session, students walk away with a process that they own, and the confidence to apply it independently in the future.

This is not the typical tutoring business, and we aren’t like typical math tutors.  Rather, our goal is to mentor students so that they feel competence, agency and even joy when working with math concepts.  Because each session will be devoted to the hard work of mentoring, sessions will not include doing homework. 

Each session will feature focused math support with personalized mentoring. We’ll dive into the most important topic from class, practice a variety of problems, and develop a clear process the student can trust. Along the way, we’ll connect the topic to past concepts and preview what’s ahead, building a stronger foundation. Every session will also include time to reflect on class experiences, tackle specific challenges, and set personal goals. Students will leave each session with notes, strategies they can rely on, and a plan to grow more confident and independent in math.

As our sessions are based on building agency in topics and not homework completion, sessions will ideally occur every two or three weeks.   This will give students time to practice on their own and return with deeper insights and questions. However, sessions can be scheduled with different timing as needed.

Concept Coaching Workshops will take place periodically throughout the year coinciding with the school curriculum. In these sessions, students will do problems related to specific topics and will collaborate with peers to workshop different ways of solving the problems.  Subjects that are pivotal to student success will be included, such proportional relationships and solving equations. These sessions will be timed to support academic success and will be very limited in size.  Workshops will also be scheduled to support success on midterms and finals. 

We mentor middle-school and high-school aged students, and those in classes from Math 6 to Algebra 2. If parents are seeking guidance for students in elementary school or those taking more advanced classes, we are happy to provide suggestions for other organizations.