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20+ Years Running College Math Center | Calculus, Stats & Higher Math
Edward B.

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I’ve been tutoring for over 20 years. I spent most of my career at Cabrillo College, where I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center, and I hold a master’s degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz. I also train other math tutors in effective strategies for tutoring math, create software for communicating math over the internet, and have taught both high school and college math. Now retired from Cabrillo, I tutor students one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online. I have a large number...

I’ve been tutoring for over 20 years. I spent most of my career at Cabrillo College, where I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center, and I hold a master’s degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz. I also train other math tutors in effective strategies for tutoring math, create software for communicating math over the internet, and have taught both high school and college math. Now retired from Cabrillo, I tutor students one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online. I have a large number of students who have successfully completed math classes they found challenging. All of the AP calculus (AB and BC) and AP Statistics students I have worked with have gotten 5’s on their exams. Also, doing math homework and prepping for math exams involve different strategies. I’ll show you how they are different and help you be successful at both.

My goal is to work with you so that you understand the material and are proficient enough to get the grade you want on math exams. I’ll help you learn to use resources available to you and show you how math language can be diluted so that it makes sense. I’ll also help you fill in holes in your understanding that make it difficult to understand what you are learning now. Further, I can show you how to analyze your own work so that those pesky errors that lower your test grades are minimized. I also work with students to help them make the most of math lectures.

My focus is on helping you ask the questions you need to ask to be successful. It works for the students I tutor and it can work for you.

Let’s talk and see how we can tackle the challenges you are having with Math.
Cheers,
Ed

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Education

Montgomery College, Cabrillo College, UCSC
Math
UCSC
Masters

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ACT Math

ACT Math

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored math students for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center and helped students across the algebra, geometry, and trigonometry content the ACT Math section covers. I also teach pacing and test strategy, because doing homework and taking a timed exam call for different approaches. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Algebra 1

Algebra 1

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored algebra students for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center, where I helped students work through Algebra 1 topics daily, from solving equations to graphing functions. I focus on filling in gaps from earlier math so the current material makes sense. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Algebra 2

Algebra 2

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored Algebra 2 students for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center and helped students with quadratics, polynomials, exponentials, logarithms, and systems of equations. I show students how each new topic builds on Algebra 1, which makes the harder material much less intimidating. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Calculus

Calculus

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored calculus for over 20 years, including AP Calculus AB and BC. Every AP Calculus student I have worked with has earned a 5 on the exam. At Cabrillo College I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center and regularly taught the multivariable and vector calculus class — the top of the calculus sequence — with an emphasis on physics applications. I use lots of visuals to make limits, derivatives, and integrals click, and I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Differential Equations

Differential Equations

I've taught the class and TA'ed the class as a grad student. I tutor DE's and ODE's on a regular basis. I also help other tutors out when they are tutoring DE's.
Discrete Math

Discrete Math

I taught a discrete math class for Computer Science majors. It is often filled with topics that vary from book to book but this makes life interesting when tutoring students in it. I haven't had much experience tutoring it since discrete math students often like figuring things out themselves. Last quarter I did tutor a student all the way through the class and she passed it even though it was an incredible challenge for her.
Econometrics

Econometrics

I've tutored econometrics up at UCSC. It was basically statistics applied to economic theory and analysis. While it is one of my weaker subjects I still enjoy tutoring it since I learn quite a bit in the process. When I tutor econometrics students I tell them up front that I am not familiar with all the terminology and charge a lower rate as a result. I also tutor slower and spend time showing them how they can use their textbook as a resource. :)
Elementary Science

Elementary Science

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and am a longtime math tutor who studies physics and chemistry; I have passed Wyzant's general science qualification. I bring the same patient, gap-filling approach I use in math to elementary science, helping young students observe carefully, ask good questions, and connect what they learn to the world around them. I keep explanations concrete and hands-on wherever possible, because science at this level should feel like discovery. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Finite Math

Finite Math

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored finite math for over 20 years and have taught the class. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center, where I helped students with matrices, linear programming, counting methods, probability, and the mathematics of finance. I emphasize how these tools are used in business and the social sciences, so the material feels purposeful rather than abstract. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Geometry

Geometry

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored geometry students for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center, where I helped students with everything from constructions and congruence to two-column proofs. I teach students how to set up a proof logically instead of memorizing steps. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Linear Algebra

Linear Algebra

I tutor Linear Algebra on a regular basis at UCSC. I've also taught the class. It's one of my favorite subjects to tutor.
Logic

Logic

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored logic for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center, where I helped students with propositional and predicate logic, truth tables, and the logical structure behind mathematical proofs. I’ve also taught logic in Discrete Mathematics classes for Computer Science majors at Cabrillo College. I show students how logic connects directly to the proof-writing they meet in their math courses, so it feels like a tool rather than a separate subject. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Prealgebra

Prealgebra

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have helped prealgebra students for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center, where much of my work was helping students rebuild foundations like fractions, integers, ratios, and first equations. I am patient with students who feel behind, because solid prealgebra skills make everything after them easier. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Precalculus

Precalculus

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored precalculus for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center and taught college math, helping students master functions, trigonometry, and analytic geometry. I emphasize the ideas calculus will build on, so students arrive in calculus already comfortable with them. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Probability

Probability

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz. I have not taught probability as a standalone course, but I taught it extensively as a core part of the college statistics and AP Statistics courses I taught at Cabrillo College, covering probability rules, random variables, and probability distributions. Every AP Statistics student I have worked with earned a 5 on the exam. I now tutor probability one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Real Analysis

Real Analysis

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz, where real analysis was at the core of my graduate training in sequences, series, continuity, and rigorous proof. I help students make the jump from computational calculus to proof-based mathematics, showing them how to read, write, and check proofs instead of just following procedures. My approach is patient and visual wherever the ideas allow it, because analysis rewards understanding the definitions deeply. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Statistics

Statistics

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and taught statistics at Cabrillo College, where I also ran the drop-in Math Learning Center. Every AP Statistics student I have worked with has earned a 5 on the exam. I help students with data analysis, probability, experimental design, and inference, and I show them how exam questions differ from homework. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
Trigonometry

Trigonometry

I hold a master's degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and have tutored trigonometry for over 20 years. At Cabrillo College, I ran the drop-in Math Learning Center and helped students with the unit circle, trig identities, graphs, and solving triangles. I use diagrams and patterns so identities feel logical rather than memorized. I now tutor one-on-one, in person around Santa Cruz and online.
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