A private tutor who knows what your kid loves.

Luo is a live voice tutor with a real whiteboard. Your child talks, Luo talks back, and every lesson is built around what they’re into: dinosaurs, space, the game they play every day. Twenty focused minutes a day, following a full school-year curriculum.

Kindergarten to Grade 9/US and UK curriculum/20 minutes a day
TeachFractions of a group
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Whiteboard

The T. rex's nest

3 of the eggs have hatched: the glowing ones. What fraction of the eggs hatched?

Tap one, or just say it

Luo is talking

Yes, four. The glowing ones have hatched. What fraction of the eggs hatched?

1,200lessons, mapped to a real school year
K–9Kindergarten to Grade 9, US and UK
20 mina day. Short enough to stick with, long enough to learn
$1.63a lesson, for a one-to-one tutor
Why this matters

One-to-one tutoring is the most powerful way to learn. It’s just always been out of reach.

In 1984, the education researcher Benjamin Bloom found that the average student taught one-to-one did better than 98% of students taught in a classroom. The catch was the cost: a tutor for every child was something no family or school could afford.

Luo changes the maths. Every child gets a tutor who listens, explains, waits for them, and never runs out of patience, every day, for less than a single hour of private tutoring costs.

98%

The average child tutored one-to-one did better than 98% of their classmates.

Bloom, “The 2 Sigma Problem”, Educational Researcher, 1984
How it works

Two minutes to set up. Twenty minutes a day to learn.

  1. 01

    Tell Luo about your child.

    A two-minute voice chat: their name, what they love, their grade, what you'd like help with. Luo even learns how to say their name.

  2. 02

    Pick today's topic, or follow the path.

    A full year's curriculum is ready to go, one lesson at a time. Or choose any topic they're working on at school.

  3. 03

    Talk, draw, build, learn.

    A live twenty-minute lesson: Luo teaches out loud, the whiteboard moves with her, and your child answers by talking or tapping.

It’s a real conversation

Your child talks. Luo talks back.

No typing, no reading walls of text, no clicking “next”. Luo is a live voice tutor: your child can answer out loud, ask “wait, why?”, or jump in mid-sentence, and Luo stops, listens and answers, the way a person would.

Interrupt any timeEvery question also written on screenAn “I'm stuck” button that shows it a smaller wayHears their name the way you say it
LuoLIVE
So if we split the pizza into eight slices, each one is…
INTERRUPTED
Wait, why eight?
Good question. Let’s count the people first.
Every lesson is about what they love

Fractions, explained in the language of their favourite game.

Tell Luo your child loves dinosaurs, horses, space or a particular video game, and that becomes the world every lesson lives in. The numbers, the examples, the pictures on the board and the practice questions all come from it. The maths never bends to fit; only the story around it does.

It works. When students’ maths problems were rewritten around their own interests, they solved them faster and more accurately, and the students who had been struggling improved the most. (Walkington, Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013)

Topic FractionsGrade 3Loves dinosaurs

“A T. rex has 4 eggs in her nest, and 3 of them have hatched. What fraction of the eggs hatched?”

Hatched
Hatched
Hatched
Not yet
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3 eggs hatched4 eggs in the nest

Luo draws the nest on the whiteboard, your child counts the hatched eggs, and the picture becomes the fraction.

A whiteboard that does things

Not a video. A whiteboard your child uses.

As Luo teaches, the board comes alive: she writes out each step by hand, draws diagrams stroke by stroke, and makes pictures of the exact example she’s explaining. Then it’s your child’s turn to fill a chest with the right number of gems, sort cards into groups, pick the answer or draw on the board themselves.

Handwritten workingDrawn diagramsPictures made for this lessonBuild itSort itQuick quizzesTheir own pen
4 eggs in the nest3 have hatched3 out of 4 = ¾
A real curriculum, not random facts

A full school year, planned out. Every lesson checked before it starts.

Luo follows a complete year of learning for your child’s grade across maths, science, English, reading and history: 1,200 lessons from Kindergarten to Grade 9, in the US or UK curriculum. Before each lesson, a plan is written for your child’s exact grade and interests, then checked: every answer worked out, every fact double-checked.

I · WE · YOUEvery new idea is taught the way great teachers do it: Luo shows one, you do one together, then your child tries one on their own.

Grade 3 · US curriculumWEEK 12 / 36
Inside a lesson

What happens in twenty minutes.

Then it ends. On time, every time.

  1. 0 to 2 minWarm upLuo says hello, names today's idea in one sentence, and asks a first easy question.
  2. 2 to 9 minTeachThree short steps, each building on the last. Luo shows one, you do one together, then your child tries one.
  3. 9 to 15 minPracticeYour child does it on their own, with hints that do part of the thinking when they need one.
  4. 15 to 18 minQuizThree quick questions, no hints, to see what really stuck.
  5. 18 to 20 minRecapWhat they learned, what they can do now, and one thing to try tomorrow.
Compared with the alternatives

A one-to-one tutor, for about the price of a single tutoring session.

Luo Learn
Private tutor
Learning apps and videos
One-to-one
Talks and listens
Built around your child's interests
✓ every lesson
Sometimes
Available every day
Usually once or twice a week
Full-year curriculum
Depends on the tutor
Sometimes
Monthly cost for 20 minutes a day
$49
$230 to $750
Varies

Tutor figure: about 10 hours a month at typical US elementary rates of $23 to $75 an hour.

For parents

You’ll always know how it’s going.

Progress you can see.

A learning journey through the year, with stars for every lesson and streaks for showing up.

Your goals, built in.

Tell Luo you want more confidence, or more of a stretch, and every lesson is paced to match.

Safe by design.

The account is yours, not your child's. No ads, ever. Luo stays on learning and steers back if they wander. Your child's information is never sold.

Pricing

One plan. Everything included.

A live twenty-minute lesson every day, the full curriculum, and progress for you. Try the first minute of a real lesson free.

$49a month
for one child
FAQ

Questions parents ask.

Children from about 5 to 15, Kindergarten to Grade 9 (Reception to Year 9 in the UK).

Give them a tutor who gets them.

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