National math competition champion who will deliver you elite results

Trevor B.

EXPERIENCE
I have been a math competition teacher for 6 years and a math tutor for 10 years. I achieved perfect scores on the SAT, ACT, and GRE math sections. When I was in high school, I earned multiple qualifications for AIME and USAMO math olympiads. As a teacher, students of mine have achieved a 98% AP Exam pass rate, with 80% of students earning a 5. I am currently a coach for the 2nd-place nationally ranked high school in math competitions.

PHILOSOPHY
Teaching mathematics is about understanding the Why. Memorizing a formula is useless without understanding the underlying logic for what makes it work. I ensure that students understand not just the concepts they encounter, but where they come from and how they will be used in the future.
Mathematics should be challenging, as opposed to hard. A student should feel a sense of accomplishment arriving at the solution to a difficult problem, having worked through the steps and gotten to the answer. To go through a challenging problem is to apply what you have learned in the past and what problems you have solved in the past and learn something for the future, putting it in your mathematical toolbox. Problems that are hard are laborious, tedious, and un-fun. Approaching mathematics with the expectation that you'll be challenged is halfway on the path towards achieving successful results.
Getting a problem wrong is not a bad thing. There is something to be learned from every instance of this: what the mistake was, and how you can improve upon it for the future. I want to know what students think. The only bad answer is "I don't know." Be brave, and be wrong, so you can be right the next time.