Experienced Math Tutor, Instructor, and School Teacher

Alexey Z.

Experienced Math Teacher, with many years of teaching Math in school, in special classes, and tutoring in private environment, including one-on-one. Focusing on individual needs, always has good relationships with children, teenagers, and their parents. Helping students understand Math, how it works, becoming confident and develop love for it.

Extensive experience in extracurricular Math teaching to students of all levels and goals, from improving Math grades in school to preparing for the school year ongoing and Standardized tests to preparing for college entry exams/SAT/ACT to solving Math Challenge/Olympiad level problems. Substantial experience working in Information Technology field using Applied Math.

Education Background includes:
- World-famous Moscow Math School #2 Diploma;
- BA Math Education;
- MS Computer Science;
- Professional Project Manager; AND
- Executive Development.

Teaching/Tutoring Experience includes instruction in "traditional" methods, Common Core, what has become known as "Russian Math" and "Singapore Math", and own methods of gradually converting procedural steps into automatic skills, thus comfortably improving problem solving fluency. I show more than one conceptual approach to understand and solve a problem, so students are taught to initially use a strategy he/she is more comfortable with and gradually develop intuition for the best approach.

My exceptional Professional Experience acquired working as:
- High School Math Teacher - all Grades - classroom setting - tree years;
- Tutoring in private environment - ages 5-18 - one-on-one-to-three - twenty-one year;
- College Prep Instructor - ages 15-20 - one-on-one or to a group of 10-15 - 15 years; AND
- Challenge/Olympiad Math Coach - ten years.
Also, I lead colleagues in the Information Technology field using Applied Math - thirty years.