Reading Friends Franchise Company vs Math Squared Education Franchise Comparison

Below is an in-depth analysis and side-by-side comparison of Reading Friends Franchise Company vs Math Squared Education including start-up costs and fees, business experience requirements, training & support and financing options.

Start-Up Costs and Fees

 
Reading Friends Franchise Company Franchise
Math Squared Education Franchise
Investment $110,950 - $297,500$18,550 - $39,300
Franchise Fee $35,000$599
Royalty Fee 5.5%-
Advertising Fee --
Year Founded 1980-
Year Franchised 2002-
Term Of Agreement 10 years-
Term Of Agreement 10 years-
Renewal Fee --


Business Experience Requirements

 
Reading Friends Franchise Company Franchise
Math Squared Education Franchise
Experience --

Financing Options

 
Reading Friends Franchise Company Franchise
Math Squared Education Franchise
  In-House/3rd PartyIn-House/3rd Party
Franchise Fees No/No-/-
Start-up Costs No/No-/-
Equipment No/No-/-
Inventory No/No-/-
Receivables No/No-/-
Payroll No/No-/-

Training & Support

 
Reading Friends Franchise Company Franchise
Math Squared Education Franchise
Training --
Support Grand opening, Field operations/evaluations-
Marketing Co-op advertising, Ad slicks-
Operations 100% of all franchisees own more than one unit

Number of employees needed to run franchised unit: 9

Absentee ownership of franchise is allowed.

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Expansion Plans

 
Reading Friends Franchise Company Franchise
Math Squared Education Franchise
US Expansion Yes-
Canada Expansion NoNo
International Expansion NoNo

Company Overviews

About Reading Friends Franchise Company

Ours started as a story of overcoming. Owner and founder, Nancy Spencer, was the first person in the city of Fort Worth to be diagnosed with dyslexia after many years of struggling in school. With the proper training, she was able to thrive academically and gained a passion for children and the way that they learn. With the help of Dr. Luke Waites, Gladys Kolenovsky and a team from Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, TX, Nancy wrote a full curriculum and started Reading Friends preschool in 1980. The school is now run by her two daughters, Audrey Fowler and Nancy Pack. There are two additional locations. One located in Keller, run by Marsha Wesley. One located in Aledo, run by Diane Taylor.
 
The Reading Friends Difference

Reading Friends has the right curriculum, the right commitment, and is the right place. Let us focus on your child.

The Reading Friends preschool is dedicated to providing the young child a foundation for educational excellence.
The secret to a well-rounded child is a well-rounded approach to teaching

Curriculum


We employ Multi-sensory teaching techniques involving the total child.

Our Phonics Advantage curriculum is a language-based program that is the heart of our proprietary curricula.

Children receive structured academic experiences that produce a firm foundation in reading, math, social studies, and science.

Social

The Reading Friends program is designed to provide successful opportunities for all students. Children have daily outside free play and snack where they experiment with social interaction and cooperation.

About Math Squared Education

In 1999, the founders of Math Squared, Henry Yang and Jean Tsai realized that most children were having difficulties with problem solving in mathematics and therefore started research about all kinds of math learning programs available. But they found a lot of programs were using the rote system and almost none focused on balancing computation, problem solving, critical thinking, logic, puzzle, geometry and other areas in math. In 2000, they gathered a group of professional engineers, psychologists, mathematicians and educators, in Silicon Valley, who have drawn upon their individual areas of expertise and collaborated to design this entirely new system of learning math for Pre-K to 6th grade. Since the company's inception, 15 centers have been established in the US operating with Math Squared's license program. To further their marketing efforts, they have collaborated with Smart Kids Corp for distribution of the licensees. The founder of Smart Kids, Perry Ho believes that math is more than just the computation; children should be able to think out of the box and be equipped to overcome further challenges. Perry has more than 10 years of working experience as a Program/Marketing Manager in AT&T Bell Labs. She has won the highest honor of Bells Labs President Award for outstanding work. She has been trained extensively by Math Squared trainer to become a Math Squared certified instructor. Perry has been a dedicated educator for several years.