A private tutor for kids

What is Maya, and how is she different from a tutor you book?

Maya is a private tutor who lives on a screen at home. There is no one to book and no timetable to fit around: your child opens Maya in the evening, says what the class did today, and the lesson starts from exactly there.

She is not a marketplace that connects parents with teachers, and she is not a chatbot with a face. Every lesson in her catalog was written in advance for one topic and one grade, with the mistake children most often make on that topic built into it.

The catalog holds 265 lessons in math, Hebrew, science, English and world studies, from grade 1 to grade 10. Maya is made for children in grades 1 to 6.

How does a lesson with Maya go?

Here is what an evening with Maya looks like, from the first sentence to the last question:

• 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 children is Maya for?

Children in grades 1 to 6, roughly ages 6 to 12. Questions are answered with a tap and Maya says her explanations out loud, so children who are still learning to read can take part, and the explanations are short enough for a tired child at the end of a school day.

She suits children who need to hear something more than once. Maya explains again as many times as it takes, and does not get tired of the same question.

Parents stay in charge: lessons that go through a language model open only after a parent confirms by email, and from the parent screen a parent can pause them and delete what was kept.

What kind of mistake does Maya catch?

Take a third grader reading the number 205. Many children read it as twenty-five: they see a 2 and a 5, and the zero seems to say nothing.

Maya does not stop at marking it wrong. She explains why twenty-five was tempting — the zero looks empty — and then shows what the zero is doing: it holds the tens place, so 205 is two hundreds, no tens and five ones.

Then she remembers. If place value did not land tonight, it comes back in a later lesson, until 205 no longer trips your child up.

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:

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.

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