Maya Tutor
Learning by grade
What does each grade learn, and where do children get stuck? For every grade, Maya teaches the year's topics and knows which mistake to look for in each one.
What does Maya teach in each grade?
Every grade has topics every child meets, and every topic has one mistake that many children make. Here are examples from math, grade by grade:
| Grade | Topic | The mistake Maya looks for |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adding up to 20 | Sticking the digits together instead of adding: 8 and 7 become 87. |
| 2 | Tens and ones | Reading 34 as a 3 and a 4, with no tens. |
| 3 | Numbers up to 1,000 | Reading 205 as 25. |
| 4 | Area | Adding length and width instead of multiplying. |
| 5 | Adding fractions | Adding tops and bottoms: 1/2 + 1/4 = 2/6. |
| 6 | Percent | Taking 10 off the price instead of 10 percent. |
The same holds in Hebrew, science, English and world studies: each lesson is written for one grade and one mistake.
How does a lesson with Maya go?
In every grade the lesson itself works the same way; only the topic and the level change:
- Your child tells Maya what the class learned today, or shows her a photo of the worksheet.
- Maya teaches that topic with them, in short steps, at their grade.
- She asks questions they answer with a tap — no typing, no blank page.
- When an answer is wrong, she does not just say “try again”. She explains why that answer was tempting, and what was missing to reach the right one.
- She remembers what did not land, and comes back to it in later lessons.
Which grades is Maya made for?
Grades 1 to 6, roughly ages 6 to 12. These are the years the foundations go in: place value, the four operations, fractions, reading and writing, and first English. The catalog continues to grade 10 for children who are ready for more.
If your child’s class runs ahead of or behind the usual order, that is fine: they tell Maya what they learned today, and the lesson starts there.
What does a grade 5 mistake look like, and how does Maya catch it?
In grade 5, a child adds 1/2 + 1/4 and gets 2/6. It is tempting because it follows a rule that worked for years: add the numbers you can see.
Maya shows why it cannot be right: 2/6 is smaller than the half you started with, and how could adding make something smaller? Then she teaches the missing step: turn the half into two quarters first, and only then add — three quarters.
Is Maya safe for a young child?
Maya is built for children with a parent nearby, and the rules are written into her legal pages, not just promised on this one.
- Maya does not ask a child for an email address, a precise location or a friend list.
- There is no chat between children, no public feed and no ads in the lesson.
- Lessons that go through a language model stay locked until a parent confirms a link sent to their email.
- From the parent screen you can pause those lessons and delete the copy kept in the cloud.
- Children’s information is not sold, and there is no targeted advertising.
The full details are in the children’s privacy notice and the safety page, linked at the bottom of this page.
Maya or a private tutor: which does your child need?
Both help, but they answer different needs. Here they are side by side:
| Compared | Maya | A private tutor |
|---|---|---|
| When | Whenever your child opens it — the same evening the class learned the topic. | At a time booked in advance, when the tutor is free. |
| How long | One topic per lesson, at your child’s pace. | A fixed length agreed in advance. |
| What it covers | What the class learned today, at your child’s grade. | Whatever you agree with the tutor. |
| After a wrong answer | Explains why the answer was tempting, and remembers to come back to it. | Depends on the tutor. |
| Who teaches | Maya, on a screen, with lessons written in advance. | A person who sees and hears your child and can change the plan as they go. |
A human tutor is the better choice for exam preparation, for teenagers, for practising a spoken language, and for a child who needs a person beside them. Maya is for the everyday: the evening after school, when a topic did not land and nobody is free to explain it again.
You can also have both: if your child sees a tutor once a week, Maya can cover the other evenings.
Questions parents ask
My child is in grade 3. Where do we start?
Your child tells Maya what the class learned today, and the lesson starts from that topic at grade 3 level. You can also pick a lesson from the grade 3 list.
What if my child is behind their grade?
Maya can teach a lesson from an earlier grade. Going back to the topic that did not land is often the shortest way forward.
Does Maya go beyond grade 6?
The catalog goes up to grade 10, but Maya is made for grades 1 to 6. For older students preparing for exams, a human tutor is usually the better fit.
Is there a lesson for every topic of the year?
Not for every topic. The lesson pages show exactly what exists for each grade and subject.
Is the first lesson free?
Yes. The first lesson is free, and no card is needed. After that, Maya Plus is a subscription for more lessons.
No card needed.
Every lesson by grade and subject
Every lesson has its own page: the topic, the mistake it was written to catch, and a sample question.
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