When a child starts struggling with algebra the problem is almost never algebra; it is the third-grade math facts they never learned, and more algebra will not fix it.

Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School

And that's why when kids get to algebra and they start to struggle, the issue is not the algebra. The issue is the third grade math facts they didn't learn. And the way to fix the problem is not pound them with more algebra. It's to go fix the third grade problem.