Our results

What we have measured, and how we counted it.

Every number on this page comes from our own records, and the way we counted it sits right beside it, so you can check it.

See how fast skills get masteredRead the sample student’s MAP story
A sample student, one summer

+18 percentile points on MAP math, after six weeks of summer practice with Level Up.

Spring 2026before the summer
69th percentile
Fall 2026after about 15 hours of Level Up
87th percentile

One student is an example, not a promise, and results can vary. The case study has the details.

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A sample student’s MAP score

+18 percentile points on MAP math after six weeks of summer practice, into the top 13%. In earlier summers, the same student’s fall score stayed flat or dropped.

+18percentile points, MAP math, spring to fall 2026
15 hrsof Level Up, over six weeks of summer
0other math that summer: no tutor, no camp, no other program

The student practiced on 28 days between late July and early September. The MAP math test was taken on September 4. In three earlier summers, the fall percentile was flat or lower: no change in 2022, down 10 points in 2023, up 1 in 2025.

Read the full case study →

What a MAP percentile means →

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How fast a gap skill gets mastered

Under 20 minutes of practice, on average, for a skill that started as a gap. A tutoring session runs 60 to 90 minutes, so Level Up is 3 to 5 times faster.

Level Up: one gap skill mastered
about 19 min
Tutoring: one structured session
60 to 90 min
60 min ÷ 18.8 min = 3.2 · 90 min ÷ 18.8 min = 4.8About 3 to 5 times faster than a tutoring session

We timed active practice only: the time on each question and on its feedback. Long pauses are capped, so a tab left open does not count. We counted only skills that started as a gap, and we averaged per child, so a few children who practiced a lot do not tilt the number. That gives 18.8 minutes. Other ways of averaging give a shorter time.

How we counted

Published tutoring research puts a session at about one skill. The full working and its sources are on our learning-pace page.

See the full working →

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How soon children catch up

About 8 in 10 children we assess are behind somewhere in math. Most of them can close those gaps in 6 months or less. That is with 30 minutes of Level Up a day, 5 days a week.

81 of every 100

children we assess are at least one full grade behind in at least one area of math.

An area is one part of math, such as fractions, geometry or measurement. Example: a 5th grader whose fractions are at a 4th grade level counts here, even if everything else is at grade level. If your child is behind somewhere, so are most of the children we assess.

For these children, the report estimates how long it takes to close the gaps from earlier grades. For most, it is a few months.

3 months or less
42 in 100
3 to 6 months
42 in 100
6 months to a year
12 in 100
More than a year
4 in 100
42 + 42 = 84 in 100 within 6 months · 96 in 100 within a yearThe child in the middle: about 3½ months

A gap is a skill from an earlier grade that your child cannot do yet. Closing the gaps means your child can do every skill from earlier grades, so this year’s math builds on skills your child already has.

One area of math that is a grade behind takes about 3 weeks to close.

Geometry
about 1½ weeks
Ratios and rates
about 1½ weeks
Operations and early algebra
about 2½ weeks
Place value and multi-digit math
about 3 weeks
Statistics and probability
about 3 weeks
Fractions
about 3½ weeks
Measurement and data
about 4½ weeks
Expressions and equations
about 5 weeks
Negative numbers and the number system
about 5 weeks
the child in the middle, per area2 in 3 areas take 4 weeks or less

A child behind in two areas needs about the two times added together.

What it looks like in real practice

10 daysNine 4th grade fraction skills in 10 days. Then four 5th grade fraction skills in the next 4 days. Read the story
2 monthsMore than 170 skills in about two months. About 17 hours of practice in all, spread over roughly two months. Read the story
How we counted

From the latest report of every child assessed by a family who found us on their own, read on November 2, 2026. The times are the report’s estimates at 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. The two stories are real children, from our blog.

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What “mastered” means

A skill counts as mastered only after your child has proved it on that exact skill, including on hard problems. A streak or 8 right answers out of 10 is not enough.

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Each skill is checked on its own.

A skill is one specific thing, like adding fractions with different denominators. Your child works on that exact skill, not on a mixed quiz.

02

At least five problems, every time.

One or two right answers never make a skill mastered.

03

At least two of them are hard problems.

Getting the easy ones right is not enough. The hard problems show the skill is really there.

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A few right answers in a row are not enough.

All the answers, taken together, have to show clearly that your child knows the skill.

Why this matters for the numbers above

A program that counts a skill after a streak, or after 8 of 10 right, would report faster times. The 19 minutes in section 02 are the time it takes to master a skill by these four rules.

See where your child stands.

The assessment and the report are the first part of the 7-day free trial, and nothing is charged today. The assessment takes about 30 to 40 minutes on a computer or tablet, and your child can stop and come back later.

Read a sample report