I help students who think they are "bad at math" understand it.

Kelly C.

I am an educator with nearly a decade of classroom experience, and I tutor mathematics as a language - a system with its own grammar and logic that a student can learn to follow and reuse.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Education, and I completed an advanced mathematics sequence through Differential Equations at Valencia College. Over the years I have taught a range of subjects at the middle-school level, including mathematics, and most recently I taught high school mathematics - Algebra I, Algebra II, and AP Statistics - working with over a hundred students across a full range of ability and confidence. My experience spans whole classrooms, small groups, and one-on-one instruction, including paid independent tutoring with students I did not teach in a classroom.

My approach is concept-first. Many of the students I work with carry a quiet certainty that they are just not a math person, usually traced back to one point where something stopped making sense and nothing after it ever quite recovered. I find that point and rebuild it from there, so the next concept has something solid underneath it. Before a student applies a formula, I want them to understand the question the formula is answering: what kind of relationship they are looking at, why the tool works, and what the answer means.

I tutor Prealgebra, Algebra I and II, and statistics, working with middle school, high school, college, and adult learners. Whether a student is trying to get unstuck, catch up, keep up, or push ahead, I meet them where they are and build from there. I want every student I work with to leave not just with a better grade, but with the sense that math was never the enemy they thought it was.