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MathHacked Success Stories: In Their Own Words
Discover more stories from the MathHacked community. Below you’ll find experiences from parents, teachers, and students who’ve transformed their relationship with math. Browse through our collections to find stories that match your situation.
Worth the Investment
“I’ve been homeschooling for 11 years. I’ve spent more money than I want to think about on different types of curriculum. The only ‘proof’ I need is to see my child ‘get it.’ That’s what MathHacked has done for my son. He gets it! He feels confident! He feels smart!! He is a very bright child, but he learns differently, which is tough on his confidence. MathHacked has made a huge difference in not only his math skills, but his LIFE. That’s where the rubber meets the road. Thank you, MathHacked!!”
– Amy Waide Eckert, Homeschool Parent
Transforming Public Education: The Native American School Success Story
A series of updates from educators Bill and Wendy Creed
May 2019: The Initial Impact
“We are teaching, one on one, on average 35 students per day. The benefits are starting to be obvious to everyone. The change in confidence levels is amazing. We are so grateful for this astounding program.”
Late May 2019: Growing Momentum
“We are working with over 200 children. Of those, 21 have finished all the decks and we are trying to keep them working for speed and accuracy. There are another 70 who are within the last 2 decks of finishing. So many are begging us every time they see us, ‘Take me’. The principal told our supervisor there are some children whose attendance at school has improved considerably because they want to be there to get their turns to practice math with us.”
A Teacher’s Success Story
“One boy that had come begging three times before finally got a turn. As we moved through it, he suddenly realized he was understanding it and he started to laugh as if he were being tickled. Every answer he got after that tickled him so much he could hardly hold still. That boy came back every break thereafter. He is getting it!”
Breaking Through Barriers
“Ricky was one of our first students. His teacher had warned us: ‘His math skills are very low, he has no attention span, and doesn’t come to school very often.’ After a month, he had mastered Deck 3. His bright eyes were shining and he had a huge smile. When his friend, known for strong math skills, struggled with the same deck, Ricky puzzled, ‘What happened? He has always been way ahead of me in math.'”
From The Homeschool Coach’s Perspective
Insights from Missy Pique, Professional Homeschool Coach
Initial Discovery
“I see so many kids with math trauma! I have it too! My kids have it! They sailed through the rest of their education but I just didn’t know how to teach math in a better way. They muddled through into college and took the minimum math required. Everything I read on your site is making my heart sing!”
Professional Implementation
“At work I see such a need for not only the math but the big picture, the relationship and the atmosphere in the home. MathHacked can remedy so much of why families come to learning centers that I almost feel like I’ll be showing them they don’t need us. The family relationships are more important.”
Long Term Impact
“We’re using MathHacked to build confidence in a child who was VERY resistant and frustrated with multiplication facts. This child whizzed through this program in two weeks alongside 2 others who ‘shouldn’t be learning multiplication’ facts in 1st and 2nd grade. They all have had fun & are excited to master each level. I can’t believe it.”
Multiple Children Success Stories
The Power of Peer Teaching
My son is 12, my daughter picked it up and she taught my six-year-old. The other day I saw my six-year-old going through his 9’s times tables looking at the flash cards and was rattling them off like he owned them. I was just like, ‘What the heck? You don’t do this until third grade! What are you doing memorizing all his nines times tables?’
He said, ‘Dad, you just have to figure it out.’
I thought, how come nobody taught me this at age 6? I’m impressed – this is a pretty cool system, especially when my 12-year-old teaches my 10-year-old who teaches my 6-year-old in kindergarten and he’s got it all figured out! It’s pretty cool.”
– Jon Bailey, Father of four
Whole Family Transformation
“Math became a chore and there were more tears and tantrums than I care to count. What we lost were the hours of frustration and tears. My son was eager to try a different approach and from the very first day he has LOVED the program. The system has also benefited my 10-year-old who has been struggling along with her multiplication for a couple of years. Now, instead of guessing, she KNOWS the answers! Even my teenager and my 2-year-old enjoy getting in on the fun!”
Rachel Crumpley, President, iFamily Leadership Academy
Siblings Teaching Siblings
“My daughter is over here trying to teach the kindergartner times tables now! She’s taught her times zero, 1, 11, and is working on 10. She’s so cute and excited and loves teaching her sisters.”
– Brittney Fairbourn
Learning Differences & Special Needs
Success with Dyscalculia
“I used it with my child who has dyscalculia and it was wonderful to see her confidence grow and her fear of Math diminish. The program provides such a strong foundation that allows children to build upon their knowledge in a way that makes sense to them. Seeing my daughter’s transformation from dreading math to approaching it with confidence has been incredible.”
– Heyley Felten
Breaking Through Labels
“My son Michael who has several diagnoses (PDD-NOS, mild intellectual disability, ADHD, vision loss) has nearly completed your program with me for Math. His BOY NWEA scores shot back up to the 50th percentile, an all-time high, after plummeting to the 9th percentile. His progress is because of using the MathHacked program.”
– Elysia Proctor
The Einstein Moment
“This program is magic. I feel like Einstein right now!”
– 14-year-old student previously labeled learning disabled at three schools
[This was the origin of the MathHacked tag line.]
Building Independence
From Resistance to Self-Direction
“Today was my daughter’s first day jumping back into her regular math book since starting MathHacked and it was FUN! No skip counting over here! Just clear answers, right out of her brain! She told me she LOVED your method because it was so much easier to have rules instead of having to memorize a bunch of things.”
– Brittney Fairbourn
Natural Progression to Self-Learning
“We have been really enjoying this program! My kids consider it a game. It focuses on making multiplication easy and fun, which is important for everything that comes after that. My 8 yr old is flying through multiplication and starting division, and now my 12 yr old who has struggled with math is making headway and getting more confidence.”
– Alysia McCausland Humphries
From Tears to Triumph
A Mother’s Relief
“My daughter loves to read so out of curiosity came over to see what I was doing and saw the cute giraffe. She couldn’t help herself and she started reading the instructions. Then she started saying them. She kept going. She started smiling and laughing. ‘This is fun!’ She went through all of them smiling and laughing and at the end she had to scroll all the way to the beginning to start over!”
– Stephanie Arciniega
Young Learner’s Victory
“They tried to trick me, but they couldn’t, because I know these problems!! It’s been fun to see his confidence in his own abilities grow. We decided to skip 2nd grade math this year and go straight to 3rd grade math and he is doing so well!”
– Amanda Jenkins about her 6-year-old son
Teaching Without Math Background
Parent’s Growth Journey
“This program has saved my 10 year old’s life when it comes to Math! For me too, I finally have my times tables memorized and I’m 45 and have homeschooled three children before her, so I always had to cheat to help them. Thank you & God Bless you and your program.”
– Jodi Oakley
Building Confidence Together
“I was teaching my first grade grandkids their 9 times tables. Their parents were amazed. That was a confidence builder for sure.”
– Debbie Olsen Denning
A New Teaching Perspective
“In all my years of teaching I have never seen anything so perfectly constructed to teach everyone multiplication. Every teacher I have taught this to says the same thing that I think, ‘Oh, how I wish I could have been taught this way. I would have learned to love math.’ The young instructors say, ‘When I have children, this is how I want to teach them.'”
– Wendy Creed, teacher for 22 years
Beyond Just Math
Healing Family Relationships
“Thank you. I am excited to start moving forward. My adopted daughters from foster care came to us three years ago. They have so many delays and so much trauma. Your videos are showing me how to teach with love and kindness that are so hard for me to muster on my own!”
– Darla Jones
Creating Lifelong Learners
“The deeper I get into this program, the more I love it! Heather has so much wisdom that shines through her training sessions with the children. MathHacked goes way beyond multiplication tables; it’s been parenting help for me! My daughter absolutely loves it. She says math is her favorite subject now, and it’s been fun to feel my own math skills soar!”
– Camille Messick
These testimonials are just a fraction of what we’ve heard from families who have discovered a better way to learn math through MathHacked. Because when children believe they can succeed, they do.
