Award-Winning Algebra Tutors serving Tempe, AZ

...ACT, SAT, and GRE. I have nine years of tutoring experience, tutoring students from elementary age to graduate level, as well as working with students with special needs. I particularly enjoy tutoring mathematics, biology, and helping students prepare for standardized tests. I can also tutor in writing and reading, since I have experience as a professional copy editor. My focus when tutoring is student understanding. I believe academic goals are more readily achievable when concepts...

I am a graduate from Midwestern University, where I received my Doctor of Pharmacy degree. For my undergraduate degree, I attended ASU, college of health sciences.

...and am currently earning my masters in psychology en route to a PhD. I have tutored various psychology/social sciences and research/statistics courses as an undergrad teaching assistant, but my primary subject of tutelage is English writing and composition at all skill levels. As a national merit scholar, I am also qualified to help students prepare for the ACT and SAT/other standardized assessments. My teaching philosophy is one that centers the student and frames learning as...

...students raise their grades to passing marks, I have had the most success starting with a part of the subject the student enjoys or understands best and relate it to what they are having issues grasping until they feel confident enough to tackle the whole problem completely. I am extremely passionate about learning and education and I do my best to impart this love of learning onto any student I have the pleasure to spend...

Hello, My name is Jake. I am currently getting my Masters in Secondary Education from Grand Canyon University. I am currently pursuing a career in teaching middle and early high school math. I believe that math is not just numbers, but a way to see and interpret the living world. I have experience teaching and tutoring in China, Thailand, Vietnam, and the US. I am also qualified to teach English as a Second Language. ... Students...

...think I'm pretty well rounded education wise, so I am willing to try my hand at just about anything. I speak and read Spanish fluently. I love seeing the light bulb turn on in people's heads. Helping someone understand or master a concept is just a cool feeling. I have taught Spanish classes and I enjoy studying with my classmates. Anytime I know something that would benefit someone else, I love to share. Most recently...

...teach 7/8th grade special education in a resource room setting. I teach various ability levels in the subject areas of writing, math, and reading. I have also worked as an art teacher through Explorations Summer Academy and taught 6th grade English at a summer school. My tutoring experience includes: tutoring African refugees living in Oregon, tutoring children in Ecuador, teaching preschool as an AmeriCorps member in a low-income community in California, and tutoring children living...

...focus is mathematics. Before I went to college, I, like so many other students, found mathematics to be tolerable at best and very frustrating at its worst. I think this is due to a lack of clear teaching, and no indication as to why mathematics is useful in the real world. My time in college exposed me to the beauty of mathematics, showing how it can be applied to all aspects of life from predicting...

...received an Associate's Degree in Science with High Distinction in December of 2013. During my studies at Mesa Community College I also completed their Honors Program. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Biology at Arizona State University. (Go Sun Devils!) While I was attending Mesa Community College I tutored in their math department. Although this is my only direct experience in paid tutoring I would call my self a constant tutor. In classroom...

...from kindergarten up through college and even taught English in Peru for a little over a year. During college, I was a tutor and that is something that helped me to reaffirm that I want to be a teacher. While I was living in Peru, I got to meet people from all over the world (honest!). It was a wonderful experience that actually allowed me to learn Spanish and become fluent in the language. It...

...Medicine. As a lifelong student, I have encountered innumerable teachers, professors, and tutors who have profoundly impacted me and my education. As a tutor, I want to serve students to help them attain their goals and blossom into the best version of themselves in school. I especially enjoy essay editing, as well as English and Reading. Watching students create pieces of writing they are immensely proud of or finding joy in reading is incredibly rewarding...

...occasions just down right frustrating. All in all though I would describe learning as a process. Learning is something we do everyday, all the time, and its something that takes effort, but it is also so worth it! I'm here to help you get through those tough stretching or even frustrating moments, so that you can come to find for yourself how enjoyable and valuable learning really is. Thank you for your desire to learn...

...to grasp new concepts and see that light bulb go off in their head. Knowing the joy of tutoring I have helped multiple classmates, friends, acquaintances, and family members in almost every subject. I now tutor people in math, chemistry, and anatomy. Math, however, is my favorite subject to tutor. There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone finally realize the difference between sine and cosine or finish a homework problem that has trapped them...

...graduate from Grand Canyon University with a degree in Computer Science. The languages I am most confident in are C, C++, and Python (4 years + experience). I'm also perfecting my skills in JavaScript for web development so I can make cool dynamic HTML pages. I'm a visual learner so when I instruct I like to draw the objects being discussed. Using drawings to represent object oriented programming makes explaining concepts easier because the student...

Hello, my name is Hailey. I am currently a junior at GCU studying Elementary Education. My goal is to become an elementary teacher and make a difference in others' lives.

...seemed incomprehensible. Despite that I was still able to receive a "C" in both classes and receive college credit for those classes by being enrolled at both my high school and Rio Salado College. I graduated with two degrees, an Associate's in Arts and an Associate's in General Studies. After Graduating, I took a gap year, where I would search for ways to keep the math knowledge I had attained. I still enjoyed math and...

...4 children and helped them all with their math and science homework. I also lived for a couple years in Central America where I became fluent in Spanish. To augment what I learned while living there, I also took 3rd Year Grammar and Intro to Spanish Literature. So I also helped my kids with their Spanish homework. The great thing about knowing Spanish is that you can use it almost every day.

...at the University of Pennsylvania and did my MBA and PhD coursework in economics and finance at Arizona State University. I have the following degrees: BS in Economics, Penn, 1977 MBA in Finance, ASU, 1979 PhD (all but dissertation), ASU, 1985 I have had over forty years of experience teaching and tutoring, as well as other roles such as Boy Scoutmaster, Little League coach and youth pastor. My favorite subjects to tutor are mathematics, especially...

...teach an online physics class. I have a Master of Science degree in Medical Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology. My approach to tutoring is to ask the student questions, work through actual problems and then determine if there are more basic concepts that need to be covered. Many times, a student will have trouble with advanced concepts because he or she has not fully mastered a previous, simpler concept. Science, like math, builds upon...

...that anyone can "do" math. Sometimes, it just takes a different approach or perspective. I have been a teacher for 22 years at the high school level and 18 years at the college level. I have taught from pre-algebra to college math, online courses and dual enrollment. I also run the credit recover program at my high school. I have a passion for math and love it when one of my students "gets it" for...