Connecticut’s Best Math Tutoring Team

The numbers are troubling — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Math has never mattered more. From artificial intelligence and data science to finance, engineering, and entrepreneurship, mathematical proficiency is increasingly the gateway to the most in-demand, highest-paying careers of the 21st century. Yet right here on Connecticut’s shoreline, students who were once among the state’s strongest math performers are struggling — and the warning signs have been building for years.

A Crisis That Predates COVID

As the founder of The Learning Consultants, headquartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, I’ve been watching this downward trend with growing concern. Even before the pandemic, I was noticing that shoreline students — in Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, Westbrook, Essex, and surrounding towns — were arriving at tutoring and college counseling with weaker math foundations than their predecessors.

Then COVID hit.

Two years of disrupted learning. Mass teacher attrition. An understandable but consequential shift toward academic leniency among many families. The result is a generation of students with significant math gaps at precisely the moment when math proficiency matters most globally.

The Global Context Makes This Urgent

This isn’t just a local issue. The modern job market is international. American students are competing for opportunities against students from South Korea, Singapore, China, Finland, and dozens of other nations where math education remains rigorous and prioritized. When we look at international assessments, the United States consistently underperforms relative to its economic standing — and within the U.S., suburban communities that once assumed their students were well-prepared are discovering that assumption no longer holds.

What This Means for Your Student

Math is uniquely unforgiving as a subject. Unlike many academic areas where gaps can be papered over, math is cumulative — a weak foundation in Algebra creates cascading problems in Geometry, Pre-Calculus, and beyond. Students who fall behind rarely catch up on their own, and the consequences follow them into college placement, major selection, and ultimately career options.

The students most at risk aren’t necessarily the ones who appear to be struggling. Many are performing adequately by local standards while quietly falling behind the benchmarks that will matter when they apply to competitive colleges or enter the workforce.

The Learning Consultants’ Approach to Math

For 25 years, The Learning Consultants has helped shoreline Connecticut students close academic gaps and reach their potential. Our math support connects skilled, experienced tutors with students at every level — from middle school foundations through AP Calculus and beyond — with a focus not just on grades, but on genuine comprehension and long-term confidence.

We believe the math crisis is real. We also believe it’s reversible — with the right intervention, at the right time, with the right support.

Is Your Child Falling Behind in Math?

If you’re a parent in Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, Westbrook, Essex, Clinton, or anywhere along the Connecticut shoreline, now is the time to assess where your student truly stands — not just relative to their classroom, but relative to the standards that will define their future.

The Learning Consultants is here to help.

We have recently retained three top math teachers from local shoreline schools to bolster our math team.

Happy to help as needed.