“It used to be a big struggle to get them to do math. Now they get this look of pride on their faces like each time."
The Frank Family
CEO, Synthesis
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10,000+ parents rely on Synthesis to mentor their kids
Learning Apps
More games than learning
Focus on calculations, not understanding
Kids get bored quickly
In-Person Tutor
Very inconsistent quality
Uninspiring, rote teaching
Expensive, hard to schedule
Not fun
Delightful exercises to uncover the deep structure of math
Guides kids with tailored feedback
Kids fall in love with critical thinking
Inexpensive at $29/month. Try instantly from anywhere.
what they'll learn
The Power of Numbers
what they'll learn
Arithmetic Properties
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Place Value
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Fractions
Decimals
Algebra
Geometry
Statistics
the darpa story
Unlock your child’s hidden abilities
Education is too important to leave to school.
Using advanced teaching techniques and progress in AI, parents no longer have to. Synthesis Tutor does what school was supposed to: Show your kids that they can learn anything, and that every "boring" topic is fascinating when taught well.
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Synthesis Tutor is not ChatGPT, but something more effective and personalized. It's custom-built with decades of DARPA research, and it's proven across thousands of children.
The last two years at Synthesis showed that we're better than anyone at how to teach advanced concepts to children. We focus on concepts and strategy—not rote facts. We prepare children to think for themselves and to navigate complex situations.
Traditional school does not do this.
By embedding our expertise into Synthesis Tutor, every topic is now approachable to your kids—with an infinitely patient tutor who wants nothing more than for them to succeed.
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Your child's superhuman tutor.
Kids don’t need to learn math the confusing and boring way we did. There's no need to pass that trauma onto them. Synthesis Tutor helps children build a healthy relationship with science, showing them that even the “hardest” subjects are approachable. This instills confidence that they can learn anything—so they remain forever ambitious.
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Synthesis Tutor is built on research by DARPA—the government agency behind GPS, the Internet, and early self-driving cars.
DARPA sought to create a digital learning system as good as the classroom, but they accidentally made something far better. In fact, their average student performed better than 99.99% of students who learned in a classroom.
But the DARPA students didn’t only outperform the classroom, they also outperformed 99.9% of Navy technicians with an average of ten years of experience. This shows us that there is a way to teach concepts—even advanced concepts—in a way that’s far more efficient and empowering.
To achieve those results, the DARPA team created software that mimicked the way experts tutored their students. Unlike human tutors, software never gets tired, frustrated, or impatient. It never has an off-day or fumbles an explanation. If a student misunderstands a concept, the digital tutor always provides just the right guidance. This, it turns out, is critical.
Most importantly, the students felt like they were learning from a real person. The tutor was digital, but it had soul. Its care, intentionality, encouragement, and patience built unbreakable trust with students. They relied upon the digital tutor, shared their struggles, and treated it like you’d treat your favorite teacher. It’s hard to believe, but the digital tutor created a bond with the students—a bond that acted like fuel for unimaginably deep, fast, and joyful learning.
To test its effectiveness, DARPA set up a competition between three groups:
- Navy technicians with an average of 10 years of experience
- Students who learned in a classroom for 36 weeks
- Students who learned with the DARPA digital tutor for 16 weeks
The DARPA students outperformed both groups by huge margins. In only 16 weeks, they were better than 99.9% of Navy technicians and 99.99% of classroom students.
No other way of learning has ever achieved anything close to these results.
If you want to get close to the DARPA results, you’ll need to hire a world-class tutor to work with your child one-on-one. But even then, research shows those students won’t perform as well as the DARPA program.
Simply put, the DARPA program is the greatest way to learn in the history of humanity. It’s a big statement—we know. But it’s inexpensive to try it and to quickly discover this for yourself.
Synthesis partnered with the team that created the original DARPA program. We expanded upon their research, tailor-made a platform for kids ages 7-10, and extended what they achieved with modern AI tools.
For the first time, any kid with an internet connection can receive the best education in the world—no matter where they are.
If you’d like to dig deeper, you can read this study conducted by the Institute for Defense Analysis.
Or check out this helpful summary of the results.