Do sessions have to be scheduled?

No. There is no calendar. Your child works when they are ready, which for most families turns out to be right after dinner or right before bed.

What do I see as the parent?

A dashboard: what was practiced, what was mastered, what is still shaky, and how long they stayed with it. Time-on-task matters more than most parents are told.

Does my child need a printer or textbook?

No. Everything runs in the browser on a laptop, tablet or phone.

Online Math Tutor in Chicago, IL

The Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL-IN metro area is home to about 9,434,123 people, making it the 3rd-largest metro in the country. Online Math Tutor here means what it means anywhere: find the step your child actually missed, and rebuild it before anything else.

Written for parents · Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL-IN · ≈9,434,123 residents · 3rd largest US metro

Ellis Abel Learns

What we actually do

The hard part of tutoring is never the tutoring. It is the drive, the scheduling, the sixty-minute block that has to survive a sick day. An online tutor removes all of it: your child opens it at 7pm on a Tuesday and closes it twenty minutes later, and you get a note about what they actually did.

Chicago metro at a glance

Metro area: Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL-IN
Population: ≈9,434,123 (3rd largest in the US)
State: Illinois · Region: Midwest
Combined statistical area: Chicago–Naperville, IL-IN-WI
Local resources: Chicago family resources

Start with the foundation

Ellis Abel AI sits on top of the Ellis Abel Learns books, not beside them. The books teach the three habits every math learner runs on — owning a mistake, staying calm inside frustration, and trying while afraid. The tutor teaches the math. Your child gets both, and you get a dashboard that tells you which one is actually the problem this week.

Next step

Start with the diagnostic. It takes about twelve minutes and tells you the earliest skill your child has not locked in — which is almost never the one their current homework is on.

Questions Chicago parents ask

Do sessions have to be scheduled?: No. There is no calendar. Your child works when they are ready, which for most families turns out to be right after dinner or right before bed.
What do I see as the parent?: A dashboard: what was practiced, what was mastered, what is still shaky, and how long they stayed with it. Time-on-task matters more than most parents are told.
Does my child need a printer or textbook?: No. Everything runs in the browser on a laptop, tablet or phone.