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David M.

5.0 (270 ratings)

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Numeracy is just as essential as literacy. Managing personal finances, understanding polling results, cooking and party planning, understanding sale prices after a percentage discount, making plans and constructing a sleeping platform so you can camp in your SUV, navigating information and decisions about your health, everywhere we turn we see math. (And if you want to pursue a career in engineering, medicine, etc., you’ll be using it every day!) Math is essential for navigating life, and it...

Numeracy is just as essential as literacy. Managing personal finances, understanding polling results, cooking and party planning, understanding sale prices after a percentage discount, making plans and constructing a sleeping platform so you can camp in your SUV, navigating information and decisions about your health, everywhere we turn we see math. (And if you want to pursue a career in engineering, medicine, etc., you’ll be using it every day!) Math is essential for navigating life, and it can seem difficult and scary, but it doesn’t have to be.

As an International Baccalaureate and Ivy League graduate, experienced math classroom teacher and tutor, statistics/risk management consultant to governments and businesses around the world, and trained meditation instructor, I possess a unique combination of knowledge, skills, and presence that I love using to help people understand, succeed in, feel confident with, and maybe even grow to love, mathematics.

Math is a language and way of thinking that, like any language, takes practice and persistent effort to master. But I deeply believe in your ability to grow and want to partner with you in that process. I’ve made math topics clear and comprehensible for hundreds of students and would be grateful for a spot on your team.

Research is slowly gathering evidence for the powerful impact meditation can have on mathematics anxiety. Mindfulness meditation gives us the ability to sit with whatever is arising, to stay in calm relationship with it — what a cool skill to be able to have when we encounter a math problem! (To say it more nerdily, meditation may enhance cognitive and emotional resilience in the face of mathematical stressors.) To keep our cool when presented with mathematical challenges, even the ones that ask us to really stretch what we know, makes learning possible.

Partner with me, let’s sit and look at it, keep our cool, and grow together.

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Education

Cornell University
Labor Relations and Sociology
Naropa University
Masters

Policies

  • Tutor’s lessons: In-person
  • Hourly Rate: $55
  • Rate details: Sessions canceled with <48 hours notice subject to $25 fee at tutor's discretion; no-contact no-show sessions are billed for the full scheduled length.
  • Travel policy: Within 10 miles of Royal Oak, MI 48073
  • Lesson cancellation: 0 hours notice required

  • Background check passed on 10/19/2015

  • Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

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Approved Subjects

ACT Math

ACT Math

As a high school mathematics teacher my instruction was directly aligned to the ACT. I am an expert on the content the ACT covers and consistently increased my students' scores. I also taught an ACT Prep course that covered the math and reading/English portions of the test and am highly familiar with effective literacy strategies.
Algebra 1

Algebra 1

I successfully taught Algebra I and other math courses in Detroit Public Schools and made extensive use of algebra and statistics throughout my time in risk management and consulting.
Statistics

Statistics

I have taught statistics at the college and high school levels and apply statistics every day in my career. I have tutored multiple students in AP Statistics, all of whom have scored a 4 or 5 on the AP exam and earned college credit for the course.
ACT English
Algebra 2
Elementary Math
Geometry
GRE
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Prealgebra
Proofreading

Examples of Expertise

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Patient and Knowledgeable

My daughter has inattentive ADHD has been struggling with her honors geometry class. In the classroom, her mind wanders off and she's not able to focus on the lessons. We started using David and the results have been immediate. She received an 88 on a test after working with him for just one session. We now meet him weekly at a nearby Starbucks and he helps her with what the teacher is instructing in the classroom. He is patient, easy to work with (a really good communicator) and my daughter is gaining math confidence by working with him. I highly recommend David if you need a math tutor.

Nancy, 40 lessons with David

patient and knowledgeable Tutor!

David is the best! Great lessons, prepared and knowledgeable! David looks at future lessons, responsive and always consistent. Thank you!

Stephanie, 52 lessons with David

Great Math Tutor

I needed a last-minute geometry tutor for my son, and David was great! David quickly identified problem areas, explained concepts clearly, and helped build my son’s confidence. The teaching style was patient and effective, making complex ideas much easier for him to grasp. My son wants to work with David regularly next semester. Highly recommend for anyone needing math help!

Jacklyn, 2 lessons with David

Professional !

Our son felt more confident after the lesson. David is very clear and patient. He has a professional approach and my son is looking forward learning & building a strong foundation in Algebra 1 with him.

Anonymous, 2 lessons with David

excellent teacher. patient and experienced

Thank you so much for your help tonight. My son feels so much more confident thanks to your help! Appreciate you, your expertise and your patience.

Cara, 1 lesson with David

Geometry

He tought me how to do geometry and taught me it better then my actual math teacher. I am very fortunate to have someone to teach me geometry so this helps me alot.

Gabriel, 5 lessons with David

patient and knowledgeable Tutor!

David is the best! Great lessons, prepared and knowledgeable! David looks at future lessons, responsive and always consistent. Thank you!

Stephanie, 52 lessons with David

patient and knowledgeable Tutor!

David is the best! Great lessons, prepared and knowledgeable! David looks at future lessons, responsive and always consistent. Thank you!

Stephanie, 52 lessons with David

patient and knowledgeable Tutor!

David is the best! Great lessons, prepared and knowledgeable! David looks at future lessons, responsive and always consistent. Thank you!

Stephanie, 52 lessons with David

patient and knowledgeable Tutor!

David is the best! Great lessons, prepared and knowledgeable! David looks at future lessons, responsive and always consistent. Thank you!

Stephanie, 52 lessons with David
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