Mathnasium opens its doors in Port Washington

Jessica Parks
Suneet Jain and Alan Flyer opened Port Washington's Mathnasium on March 11. (Photo by Jessica Parks)

Alan Flyer, a Port Washington native and owner of Mathnasium Roslyn, said he had been eager to open a second location in his hometown for years.

He said it finally came together after he found the perfect location for the math tutoring center across from Schreiber High School and Weber Middle School on Port Washington Boulevard.

Flyer opened the Port location on March 11 with Suneet Jain, with whom he has worked since the opening of his Roslyn location nine years ago.

Jain said that after working at the center as a tutor and an instructor and seeing the positive effects on students, he knew this was a business he wanted to get more involved in.

When asked about striking moments when children understand what they are learning, Jain said, “That happens almost too many times.”

Flyer said it is about seeing the progress when a student goes from struggling in a subject to walking into the tutoring center to show off a perfect score on a test.

Individualized tutoring plans are tailored to each student enrolled at Mathnasium.

Students come in to further their math skills or because they need extra help.

At the first meeting, a tutor sits down with a student and assesses what he or she really knows, not what should be known based on grade level or age or what parents say the child knows, Flyer said.

“It is actually asking questions both orally and on paper and figuring out what a student is comfortable with,” he said.

He said that the center serves students from first to 12th grade and runs year-round.

While the summer months can be slow, Flyer said it is the perfect time to improve math skills because students don’t have to focus on homework help or school testing.

The center is already having students enroll just in time for state and standardized testing and is planning its grand opening sometime later this month.

When Flyer opened his Roslyn center, it was the first Mathnasium in Nassau County and now there are over a dozen locations on Long Island.

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