Professional & Patient Math Coach with 8+ Years EXP in Education

Matthew C.

Hello! My name is Matthew, and I am a professional educator with 8+ years as an educator. I've earned my Bachelor's in Mathematics and Master's in Secondary Education from Salem State University in Massachusetts. I have worked as a public school teacher, learning center director, and private tutoring. I am currently focusing on building up clientele in the hopes of one day starting my own learning center.

I do my best to create a positive learning environment for my students to thrive in by building rapport with them, reinforcing their progress & effort, and helping them master fundamentals to make mental math easier and seemingly effortless! From improving grades & test scores to "catching up" to or even excelling their grade level: I not only help students improve upon their computational skills, but also their confidence in their own abilities as a mathematician.

My teaching style is heavily influenced from the 8 Standards of Mathematical Practice:

1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively
3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
4) Model with mathematics
5) Use appropriate tools strategically
6) Attend to precision
7) Look for and make use of structure
8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

I specialize in algebra, pre-algebra, and general arithmetic, and am confident in my abilities to tutor any student from kindergarten all the way to high school students. I believe that every student is capable of learning math and achieving progress.