My name is Christian, and I have tutored mathematics for about seven years. I hold two bachelor's degrees from Marquette University, in Information Technology and in Operations and Supply Chain Management, and I completed an online certificate program in machine learning through MIT. I am largely a self-taught mathematician who spent years working through calculus, probability, and statistics on my own, so I learned the advanced material the same careful way I now teach it. That is why I can...
My name is Christian, and I have tutored mathematics for about seven years. I hold two bachelor's degrees from Marquette University, in Information Technology and in Operations and Supply Chain Management, and I completed an online certificate program in machine learning through MIT. I am largely a self-taught mathematician who spent years working through calculus, probability, and statistics on my own, so I learned the advanced material the same careful way I now teach it. That is why I can tutor high school math, including Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, and Statistics, along with SAT, ACT, and ASVAB prep and college math through Calculus 2.
Most of my experience has been at a local tutoring center, where I became the instructor assigned to the hardest cases. I teach both one-on-one and in small groups of students at a similar level, and over the years I have worked with hundreds of students, some of them for years as they grew up. They have mostly been middle and high schoolers, with some elementary and college-level learners. I have real experience with autistic and neurodiverse students, students who battle math anxiety or low confidence, and gifted students who need a bigger challenge. My approach is to find the specific gaps a student has rather than reteach everything, then build from what they already know. I put more weight on steady, directed effort than on the idea that some people are not math people, because I have repeatedly watched students who arrived sure they were bad at math turn into honors students.
One recent student shows how I work. A high school sophomore who had recently moved to the U.S. and was still learning English had to prepare for three math finals in about three weeks. Over about 23 hours of one-on-one work, he earned a perfect score on his Algebra 1 exam and raised his Honors Geometry grade from a D to a B and his Algebra 2 from a C to a B. I would be glad to bring that same focus to your student.
