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BY SARAH BRAGER
Each student uses a workbook that’s personalized to their math level.
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12344 Barker Cypress Road, Ste. 150, Cypress www.mathnasium.com/cy-fair
Students sit at tables based on their math level, so ages vary across the classroom.
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Mathnasium celebrates 15 years in Cy-Fair Former teacher Catherine Labuda never thought she’d hear a child beg to take another math test. As a co-owner of three math tutoring centers in Cy-Fair, now she hears it all the time. “With little kids, we’ll do a numerical uency test, and we play games with them,” she explained. “We make it fun so that they enjoy it.” Mathnasium tutors teach second-grade math through precalculus, with curriculum customized
for each student. How we got here Catherine Labuda and her husband, John, invested in their rst Mathnasium center—a math tutoring franchise—when they moved to Texas 15 years ago. The couple opened two more locations by 2014. John Labuda said one of the most rewarding parts of the job is watching students grow into their condence as their grades shift from Ds to As. The local impact John Labuda said they’ve served almost 3,000 students since their rst center opened in 2010.
Reecting on 15 years in the community, the couple said they’ve been able to grow alongside the students themselves. Some students, who John Labuda calls “lifers,” started going to the Cy-Fair center in elementary school and stayed through high school. A few of them have even applied to be tutors, he said, creating a true full-circle experience. The future Catherine Labuda said she hopes to keep demon- strating that anyone can be a “math person.” Basic math sense is crucial in all aspects of life, the couple explained.
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