About SOMATH

Two educators. Twenty years. One mission for your child.

We've spent two decades teaching adults the math that gets them into MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. We started SOMATH because our own daughter deserved better — and so does yours.

01 · Origin

Why we started School of Math.

The shortest version: our daughter's school wasn't teaching math well, and we knew exactly what good math instruction looked like.

For twenty years, we've worked side by side preparing candidates for the world's most demanding standardized tests — the GMAT and the GRE — and consulting on admissions to programs like MIT Sloan, Harvard Business School, and Stanford GSB. Over 3,000 of our students have gone on to be admitted to top programs.

Then our daughter started school in New York.

We watched a bright, curious kid get bored in a classroom that moved too slowly, then anxious in one that moved too fast — and we realized that the math instruction that gets adults into graduate programs almost never reaches kids when it matters most: in first grade, in third grade, in fifth grade — in the years their relationship with math is being formed.

We founded School of Math because we couldn't find what we wanted for our own child — a small, serious math school taught by people who actually understand math at the highest level, in a space where kids feel known.

Today, that school sits on West 79th Street, half a block from Broadway, with families from across the Upper West Side. It's the school we wanted for our daughter. It's the school we built for yours.

Vivianne Wright & Marcelo Ambrozio Co-founders, School of Math

02 · Founders

Meet the teachers behind every class.

We don't outsource our teaching. Vivianne and Marcelo are the people in front of your child — bringing the same depth they brought to thousands of MBA candidates.

Marcelo Ambrozio

Co-Founder & Lead Math Teacher

MBA · B.S., Applied Mathematics · Northwestern University

Marcelo trained as an applied mathematician before earning his MBA, and brings two decades of experience teaching the quantitative sections of the GMAT and GRE to candidates worldwide. His background in applied math means he doesn't just teach formulas — he teaches the reasoning behind them, the patterns underneath them, and the elegance that makes math click for students who once thought it never would.

"Math is a language. I want kids to leave SOMATH fluent."

Vivianne Wright

Co-Founder & Head of Education

M.Ed., Education · Harvard University

Vivianne has spent twenty years teaching math at the highest level — preparing thousands of GMAT and GRE candidates for admission to MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and other top business schools. She holds a Master's in Education and has built her career on a single conviction: math is learnable by every student, when it's taught at the right level, at the right pace, by someone who understands how the student is thinking.

"I started SOMATH because I wanted my own daughter to have the kind of math teacher I wished every kid had."

03 · Method

How we teach — structured, not improvised.

SOMATH runs 12 leveled programs, each built as a 24-class cycle that restarts every 6 months. Enroll at any point of your child's level — they'll complete all 24 classes of the cycle, carrying any remaining sessions into the next one. It's not tutoring — it's a small-cohort classroom with personal attention and a structured program behind it.

Diagnose first, teach second

Every student begins with a 30-minute evaluation. We map gaps and strengths before we place them in the right cohort — because nobody should be paying for the wrong class.

A 2-hour class with real structure

Every class follows the same rhythm: 30 minutes of math puzzles and enigmas, one hour of lecture and guided problem-solving on the day's topic, and 30 minutes for a mini-test and full solution walk-through. Pen and paper, every time.

Small cohorts, real attention

Tight in-person cohorts at 226 W 79th St running on a 24-class cycle that restarts every 6 months. Teachers know every student's name, level, and what they were stuck on last week.

Regular feedback to parents

We're the only math program in the neighborhood that sends parents structured feedback throughout the cycle — what your child mastered, what they're still working on, and what to practice at home.

Hand-picked instructors, not gig tutors

Every SOMATH teacher is Harvard- or Northwestern-trained and personally vetted before stepping into a classroom. Same instructor every week — so your child builds real rapport, not a rotating cast of strangers.

A real curriculum, written in-house

No worksheet stacks, no improvised lessons. Each of our 12 leveled programs runs on a 24-class syllabus we wrote ourselves — from Little Newtons through AP Calc and AP Statistics — with topic-by-topic objectives parents can see on the programs page. Our curriculum aligns with and extends beyond what NYC public schools teach — see how the NYC Solves 2026 curriculum expansion affects Upper West Side families.

Come meet us. The first 60 minutes are on us.

Book a free evaluation and you'll leave with a clear picture of where your child stands in math — and exactly what comes next.

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