hi i'm enjoying frenzy and i would like to welcome you to the belmont business report today we have with us so mom and tony from the russian school of mathematics welcome s you tell me what the russian school of mathematics what what can you tell me about it so first of all let me thank you for having me here and thank you for writing this you use it is a great opportunity both for belmont residents and also for businesses coming to us usually once a week for two to four hours depending on the grade level and we teach in the class from starting we really believe in the classroom setting words as one on one tutoring sessions and we have unique curriculum that has been d curriculum is done in the right way and we have been in the system for twenty years even though he ok so how does this interactive i'm taking calculus for example at the high school learning it the way they're teaching it and then all of a sudden enroll in in your school what's the interaction between some conflict between  same art and if there is anything that they will be seeing in the school of a different way we make sure that they see they are exposed to that method as well that we take the same concept it is just teaching them in the  help students actually humans cognitive development and we start that in early age in first grade actually already they work with variables and it is really amazing to see how much more kids can do if it is expert they are lexington are actually the same school we have just two different campuses among two schools we have about fifty five teachers and seventeen hundred students well it just about between  seven hundred students our teachers actually all of them go true about the year training to learn our curriculum and the way we want them to deliver the concepts in the classroom because very similar the same concepts like equation many have over two thousand five hundred students there and we have over thirty different actually schools across the nation the main again the key thing is that we train the teachers we make sure that everything in every using the right curriculum with the right my kids to actually deliver the instruction we won't have the results that we have today and last year alone in lexington and belmont our students do a lot of international national competitions and we have twenty eight gold medals only between those two schools lexington and belmont it is it is really huge and it is really amazing to see if you give the right tool to those kids  us those who don't know us they think that russian school is only for advanced kids and some of them they feel some of the teachers they feel that kids will get confused if they come back from the russian school classroom however those teachers who have experience with our students we are just helping them to do that and we are doing it together we couldn't do it without public system and absolutely want to make sure that if there are teachers who don't know about us to reach out and we did have cases that they st here almost at this point two years almost every day i am here i have many friends in the belmont town and so i originally i'm from army i'm moved to the united states with my husband to get  also teachers trainer so once i moved to the united states i started to look for similar approach unities so i went to college to do my second master's degree at boston college and then also at that time i was working in also learn about public school system here in the united states from inside and so then i started to teaching newton school and then within a year i got offered to start my own branch and i picked like sink then seven years ago and then two years later we decided to start the belmont because we had many belmont families who were commuting to lexington even though it is very very close but still because of many many families we just decided to make it easy for them fourteen students with the every will say eleven to twelve and the classroom experience is really important for students sometimes we will have students coming and asking if we can do one on one tutoring who really don't believe in one on one  interaction with the ma that is really important to create the conducive environment where there is healthy competition and cooperation between the students when someone is asking the question others are actually answering or learning from the family first work with the student to understand where they are their level is and then also show them the curriculum answer the questions so this is really the best way to learn about the program and to give us an opportunity to learn about their child about their themselves are different based on the student's ability and knowledge but also the curriculum is entirely different for each of those levels so finding the right fit for the student is really critical for that the for their success we want to make sure that th n i would come in at a particular level could i move between the levels as i progress yes so the way it will work in the same algebra one which we start in a eighth grade and not start actually be called the eighth grade our algebra one curriculum has three different levels of how to problem so depending on vary you are you can start in one place and then based on how you progress if you are doing evolutions every time and any time during the year once the kids are progress into the next level if they are families come to us for the mouth because they have a friend they had that relative and i know sometimes they actually sometime there was a family who told me you were the vel kept secret in the town from all of this wonderful why why people didn't tell me about your earlier it is really the way that people find us just being quick commented by a friend well that's great i appreciate your being with us that's the russian school of bath maddux again fourteen until next time i'm angela frenzy and i will see you when the next business report