1:1 Math Coming in 2025!

Exciting News! GiGi’s Playhouse is launching a new 1:1 Math program specifically tailored to how individuals with Down syndrome learn best. Our program aims to provide personalized math education and support to enhance learning outcomes for participants. Knowing that our participants vary greatly in their abilities and challenges in comprehensive math, we combine multiple approaches that utilize multi-sensory teaching. Graduated levels of purposeful progressions lead to an increase of skills and self-confidence. These methods are aligned with topics taught in the classroom, to provide a comprehensive and cohesive program.

Benefits of our math tutoring program: 

• Increase a range of math skills from number recognition and patterns, to knowledge of addition and subtraction, to money and telling time, to fractions and algebra 
• Increase self-esteem and confidence 
• Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills 
• Greater independence and autonomy 
• Greater inclusion in general education classrooms 

• More active role in schools and community 
• Increase peer interaction through purposeful games and activities 
• Enhanced fine motor development 

Students can start in our program as early as age 3 or any year after that. It is never too late to start!  Weekly lessons last 45-60 minutes for 10-15 weeks at a time. Family members attend each tutoring lesson and leave with practical activities to continue learning at home.

From pre-number concepts and additional and subtraction from 10 in Level 1 to multiplication and division in Level 3, to real world use, our 1:1 Math will lead to improvements in speech and language development, auditory perceptual skills and working memory function.

The plan for rollout with include a 10-week pilot for 5 participants starting in March and open enrollment for all interested families for Summer session. We are so excited to offer another program that will allow our participants to reach their full potential!

If you are interested in volunteering as a 1:1 Math tutor, all training and materials are provided! Please reach out to Erica at eerdman@gigisplayhouse.org to get started.