According to UNESCO, over 40% of children worldwide don’t even have access to education in a language they understand. On top of that, 10-20% of 3-9-year-old children worldwide have some form of development delay, language disorder, and physical and/or cognitive special education needs (hearing impairment, neuro-diverse, autism spectrum, ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, etc.,). Per the OECD, lack of good maths and numeracy skills has a lasting impact into adulthood and “good numeracy is the best protection against unemployment, low wages and poor health.”
Even typically developing children learning maths in their native language face significant challenges. Issues of maths anxiety, gaps in maths learning, access and encouragement for girls to pursue maths learning, and preparation for STEM jobs of tomorrow exist in even the most developed regions. Education and industry experts agree there is a significant gap between STEM prepared employees and needs in the labour force.
This means there are 800 million 3-9-year-old children that LetzMath (DBA “Magrid”) can help globally and 34 million in EU countries. Looking only at the smaller segmentation of neuro-divergent and migratory children, then the global population is 300 million 3-9-year-old children and 7 million children in EU countries.
More importantly, per the OECD “a modest goal of having all OECD countries boost their average PISA scores by 25 points over the next 20 years – which is less than the most rapidly improving education system in the OECD…implies an aggregate gain of OECD GDP of USD 115 trillion over the lifetime of the generation born in 2010.” In other words, improving maths scores has a direct impact on the future GDP of EU countries. That is the problem Magrid is working on changing by disrupting how maths is taught at a foundational level.
Ages 0-10 is critical for brain development and maturation of cognitive skills to solve problems. The educational foundation set during these ages significantly impacts participation in adulthood. If you research learning you will find that language is the norm to teaching in classrooms everywhere. But what existing norms ignore is that math is a form of language itself – a universal language and spoken language itself is a barrier to learning for nearly 50% of the world’s population. After over 5 years of research and bringing together the knowledge of experts with over 25 years of experience in early childhood development, psychology, neuroscience, in practice and academia, we created Magrid. Magrid is a language-free and evidence-based pedagogical learning solution that improves cognitive, visual-spatial, and math development in 3-9-year-old children, including children with special education needs (SEN). Magrid disrupts the maths EdTech market and is unique by removing language as a barrier to learning. It significantly improves development, learning, and math performance, for typically developing native language fluent, non-native language speakers, and SEN children by as much as 70%. Magrid’s results have been validated in six scientific studies, in three countries, in over 30 classes, with over 1000 students across all learning profiles/
