Level Up runs a free K-8 maths assessment and turns it into a plain-language report for parents. Its premise is that a child struggling with current work usually has a foundation that went shaky a grade or two earlier, and the assessment locates exactly where. A sample report is published before you commit, and there is a pricing page and a monthly giveaway.
Diagnosing backwards is the correct model and it is what school assessment rarely does. A child failing fractions in year six is normally given more fractions, when the actual break is in division two years earlier – and no amount of practice at the visible symptom repairs the invisible cause. Finding the earliest gap is the whole value, and it is a genuinely hard thing for a parent to do unaided.
Writing the output for a parent rather than a teacher is the other good decision: the person who will act on this has no assessment vocabulary and needs to know what to do on Tuesday. Publishing a sample report up front is a fair way to sell something whose value is entirely in the output. The assessment is free with paid plans priced on a separate page, no company is named, a single assessment is a snapshot of one session with a child who may simply have been tired, and identifying the gap is not the same as closing it.
