Award-Winning Elementary Math Tutors in Tacoma, WA

...am a certified teacher with a Masters in Elementary Education from the University of Puget Sound. Through my undergraduate studies, I received a Bachelors in Music and a minor in English. I lived in northern California for two years teaching for AmeriCorps where I enjoyed gaining experience in both tutoring and teaching. I have experience tutoring all elementary subjects, as well as experience tutoring English (for example, essay writing) with elementary, middle school, high school,...

...make Shakespeare fun and VALID for the times. I started tutoring in college, and I also worked in publishing creating a lot of the material you see on practice tests and various educational workbooks, textbooks, and media. I recently moved from NYC as I worked in the NYC Deptartment of Education as an English teacher and Social Studies teacher. The students I have worked with in the past are Gifted and Talented, Dyslexic, Dysgraphic, Anti-Authoritative,...

...in the sciences, working with middle school, high school, and college students. With my passion for medicine, I have a particular interest in all biology courses. I am very passionate about teaching and believe that mastery of material coupled with being knowledgeable in test taking strategies and approaches allow for the greatest success. I am a strong believer in understanding the whole picture of what is being learned and how everything is interrelated to form...

...of the University of Washington. At UW, I was a Pre-Med student, so I am very familiar with Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and other sciences. I also have spent the past few summers tutoring students in Reading and Writing and am able to help with everything from college essays and writing assignments to skills for standardized tests. I'm happy to work with a range of ages and will do my best to help make sessions as...

...I have taught mathematics for the past two years at the college level at Northern Arizona University, Coconino Community College, and now at Shoreline Community College. I have been tutoring in mathematics since I was in high school. Mathematics is a difficult subject to teach because it is so comprehensive and individual. You cannot solve a problem if there is some underlying logic to the problem that you don't understand. I pride myself in finding out...

...there are times when I still do not understand some of the topics! My experiences have told me that I value learning when it takes place in an informal, fun and cheerful environment that allows me to try and figure out my own way of retaining information- be that through word association, joking, goofy acronyms or even songs, and that happens no matter what age you are. I recall sitting in my graduate level college...

...brain that could “get” fractions. I want to be the influence in students’ lives that shows them how to learn. I want people to feel equipped to deal with math in their lives instead of dreading it. I work as an analyst with an insurance company and am getting my teaching certification to teach middle school math. I’m happy to help you with your math struggles and look forward to working with you!

...with my Masters of Education (school counseling) in 2013. Over the past 10 years I have tutored students in an array of subjects in the United States, Africa, and Latin America. I am a middle school guidance counselor and love see students progress and having fun while working hard. I firmly believe that with enough time and practice any student can tackle any subject they put their mind to. I tutor an array of subjects...

...dual Masters in Manufacturing engineering and Industrial engineering from New Mexico State and University of Texas at El Paso. My undergraduate is in Mechanical engineering. I worked as an Industrial engineering for Boeing. I have 10 years of teaching and tutoring experience and 14 years of engineering experience. I tutor all levels of Mathematics and Statistics. I would love to make a difference with people that find Math difficult and fearful of word problems etc.

...sufficiently teach someone, especially a layperson, the subject matter that you are studying, then you know that you got it! I have been teaching for five years not only because it is helpful in giving back to the community, but also because I need to in order to master my craft. Because of this, it is in my best interest to optimize my teaching style and habits whenever I organize a session. I dabble in...