Hello! I'm a mathematics tutor with a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics, and I believe that math makes sense when it's learned the right way. Too often math is taught as a pile of rules to memorize and formulas to plug into, with no explanation of why any of it works. That is exactly what makes it feel confusing, arbitrary, and dull. In his essay A Mathematician's Lament, Paul Lockhart compares this to teaching music by drilling students in notation for years while never letting them...
Hello! I'm a mathematics tutor with a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics, and I believe that math makes sense when it's learned the right way. Too often math is taught as a pile of rules to memorize and formulas to plug into, with no explanation of why any of it works. That is exactly what makes it feel confusing, arbitrary, and dull. In his essay A Mathematician's Lament, Paul Lockhart compares this to teaching music by drilling students in notation for years while never letting them hear or play a note. My teaching is built on the opposite idea: mathematics is a connected, logical structure, and when you understand it from the ground up, it becomes far easier and genuinely interesting.
I began teaching as an undergraduate, working one-on-one as a peer tutor helping fellow college students through their math courses, and serving as a teaching assistant for a theoretical mathematics course. I've been tutoring for about 8 years. Working with proofs as a TA showed me how much clarity comes from understanding why something is true rather than just that it is, and that shapes how I teach. I start at the foundation, make sure each idea is understood before we build on it, and never move ahead on shaky ground. We work through problems together so that you do the reasoning, with support, because genuine understanding — not memorization — is what makes the next topic click.
This foundation-first approach pays off as students advance. When the fundamentals are solid, higher-level math and science stop feeling like a wall of disconnected facts and start building on what you already know. I tutor across the undergraduate curriculum — Algebra 1 and 2, the full calculus sequence, linear algebra, differential equations, mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, real and complex analysis, abstract algebra, graph theory, and combinatorics — as well as introductory physics and chemistry. If you're ready to stop memorizing and start truly understanding math, I would love to help you get there.
