Award-Winning Calculus Tutors in Buffalo, NY

...my life I have always valued education and the opportunities it creates. I first started tutoring during my sophomore year of undergrad for the Equal Opportunity Program at Buffalo State. Helping others has always been a passion of mine. I tutor mathematics and physics, both of which I will finishing bachelors degrees in this coming fall semester. In my free time I enjoy doing yoga and gardening. I also enjoy traveling and exploring the world....

I have been tutoring for the past 5 years. My quality of providing a student specific help makes me a great tutor. I am very good at analyzing a student and finding out the areas where a student needs strengthening.

...you rediscover that passion. I'm currently an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester hoping to double major in Molecular Genetics & International Relations, on a premed track. I've been tutoring my younger sister (7 years my junior) since she could talk: I remember setting up my own daycare in order to teach her the alphabet and basic words before she was able to enter preschool. Since then I've helped her through countless assignments and...

...have been tutoring since the age of 16 and it is one of my passions. I love working with students and getting to see them learn and grow overtime. As a person who has taken rigorous courses in college, I know what it's like to struggle with subject material, and I know how important it can be to have someone there to work through the material with you, at your own pace. I love working...

...goal has been to become an educator for over a decade now. I was inspired at a young age by educators in my favorite grade school subject throughout High School. Ever since, I’ve wanted to leave marks of inspiration in other people. However, this is not my only objective. I’ve seen fellow students struggle in the subject of Mathematics and as my experiences and awareness grew it seemed to me that the “great” teacher, the...

...passion for tutoring comes from seeing my students progress throughout a series of sessions. I love the moment when a student realizes that he/she has an interest in the subject after finding it to make more sense and have application to the real world. My experiences working with students often include this "aha" moment and a successful academic year. I am currently a student at Niagara University working on a B.S. degree in Mathematics. I...

I am from Chicago, Illinois but now live in Buffalo, New York. I am current freshman Civil Engineering major with a double minor in Mathematics and Spanish at the University of Delaware. I love to travel, learn, play sports, and help people. I have tutored for almost 4 years now and can definitely help anyone who needs it, especially in Math and Spanish. ... My teaching philosophy is based off what the tutee needs help with. I am a very flexible person and can adapt to any style that someone wants. Overall, I believe that as a teacher, my philosophy is to be insightful and to go at whatever pace the tutee wants to be able to get him/her to fully understand the material.

I develop relationships with the students I tutor. I believe the most crucial component to successfully achieve goals is trust. More importantly, I believe everyone is able to learn all content and it is my personal mission to educate others.... I firmly believe all material is conquerable. If instruction is fun, informative, rigorous, and applicable to the student's life, he or she will excel.... Session one is very important. This is where expectations are established. Goals are marked. And most importantly, communication and trust is developed.

...understanding how students learn mathematics is essential to teaching and tutoring mathematics. There are many different forms of teaching. I feel that I'm a great tutor because I try to understand how each student learns and then shape my instruction in such a way that will promote that student's understanding. I am always looking for new strategies to help captivate the interest of the students I instruct and tutor in order to help better foster...

...improvisation to creatively engage them using stories. Benjamin has over 100 hours of official tutoring, including professional math/science tutoring with two top tutoring agencies, and plenty of informal (“free”) tutoring as the “go-to smart guy” in most of his math/science classes since junior year in high school. Additionally, he has taught Stanford graduate students in 2 graduate level engineering courses as a teaching assistant during his PhD. Benjamin has five goals with each new student:...