7121C 50 Ave, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4E4
The Math Shack Education Centre is a locally operated math learning centre at 7121C 50 Ave in Red Deer. It focuses only on mathematics and serves learners beginning around age 4 through high school. The Math Shack offers both individual and small-group math instruction. Its current program information says small groups generally contain two or three students, with grouping based on skill level, age and compatibility. Individual and online sessions are also available. The centre's current program model describes 45-minute sessions, generally twice a week. Each student starts with an individual math screening, and the family receives a program plan based on the student's current skills. The centre supports students who are behind, students who want more challenge, and students with learning differences. It explicitly welcomes students with a range of learning differences and higher learning needs, including dyscalculia, ADHD, autism and cognitive/developmental delays. Its approach emphasizes hands-on strategies, clear explanations, individualized pacing and encouragement. The Math Shack works across Alberta math curriculum expectations from foundational skills through high-school mathematics. Families seeking help with a particular senior-high course should confirm current instructor availability directly with the centre. The centre is owned by Lisa Hansen, and Keanna Keats is its Manager and Senior Instructor. Standard tutoring rates are not published online; families should contact the centre for current pricing.
Teaching approach: The Math Shack emphasizes hands-on, multisensory mathematics rather than a primarily worksheet-based approach. Sessions may use games, manipulatives, movement and whiteboard-table activities, with instructors adapting pace and strategies to the learner. The program focuses on building foundational understanding and linking mathematical concepts together, matching methods to each student's learning style and building confidence. Current program material names foundational areas such as number sense, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, time, money, place value, fractions, decimals and word problems. Testimonials selected and published by the centre also mention older-student topics such as logarithms and trigonometry; these are examples, not a complete course list.
1. The student completes an individual math screening. 2. The centre identifies current skill levels and areas needing support or extension. 3. A program plan is developed for the family. 4. The student is placed into an individual session or an appropriately matched small group. 5. Current program information says standard sessions are generally 45 minutes, twice a week. 6. Instruction uses games, manipulatives, whiteboard tables, movement and other multisensory activities rather than relying mainly on worksheets. 7. Instructors document progress across math areas. 8. Progress is shared with parents and programming can be adjusted. The current site says most learners are placed in small groups matched by functioning level, age and compatibility, while individual and online sessions remain available.
The Math Shack Education Centre does not currently publish standard ongoing tutoring rates on the pages reviewed. Families should contact the centre for current individual, small-group, online and assessment pricing.
Prices change. Always confirm current rates directly with the provider.
Owner Lisa Hansen is a certified teacher with more than 25 years of experience in education. Manager and Senior Instructor Keanna Keats has worked at The Math Shack since 2017, oversees student screening and scheduling, develops programming and trains new instructors. The centre's broader instructional team has varied backgrounds; current recruitment material lists education, educational-assistant and tutoring experience among preferred qualifications rather than stating that every instructor is a certified teacher.
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7121C 50 Ave, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4E4
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