MathRiders : Founder Helen Doron on the MathRiders Curriculum Philosophy
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This video focuses on the franchise opportunity itself, including what ownership may involve and how the system operates. As you watch, consider the expectations around time, responsibilities, and investment level. If the opportunity aligns with your goals, the next step is to request more information and speak directly with the franchisor.
About This Video
This MathRiders opportunity video captures founder Helen Doron, who is also the originator of the Helen Doron English methodology and now of MathRiders. She explains how the maths-tutoring franchise was born and the curriculum philosophy that runs through every tier of the programme. Helen Doron founded the original Helen Doron English language-tuition franchise; MathRiders extends the same methodology into mathematics. The video gives prospective UK partners a direct line to the curriculum thinking behind the brand.
Helen frames the central insight succinctly: maths is a language. Just as English used to be taught from books at a later age before her language-tuition methodology proved that earlier hands-on immersion worked better, maths is currently taught through formulae and abstract instruction in a way that misses the natural-world content the formulae are trying to explain. MathRiders inverts that. Every single MathRiders lesson, from age 2 through age 11 in the primary curriculum, with a different format for secondary, is built around a hands-on task with props, downloads and physical engagement, followed by reflection, peer-explanation and individualised written work in specially formulated MathRiders books.
The methodology builds three layers of capability simultaneously inside each lesson. Children develop mathematical reasoning through the hands-on task itself, leadership-and-communication skills through analysing and explaining their work to peers, and written-fluency through the books that translate hands-on work onto paper. Add in mathematical songs, stories about maths history and great mathematicians (men and women) and the games that run alongside the lessons, and learners 'live maths' inside the MathRiders environment rather than studying it as an external subject.