Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning click faster when a student sees how the concepts link together instead of treating each chapter as a separate thing to memorize. Samuel's statistics background from the University of Chicago gives him a knack for showing middle schoolers how number rela...

Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning are the stumbling blocks that quietly derail students in middle school math. Through years of volunteer tutoring with young learners, Matt has developed a knack for diagnosing exactly where a concept breaks down and rebuilding understanding from that poi...

Fractions, ratios, and early equation-solving can feel like a maze when the rules keep changing from one unit to the next. Elizabeth breaks each concept down into logical steps — her math degree and experience as a software developer mean she's used to translating abstract ideas into concrete, repea...

Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning click faster when students can actually see what's happening — and Elise's fine arts background means she's constantly sketching out visual models and diagrams to make abstract middle school math concepts concrete. Her special education training also giv...

From fractions and decimals to basic geometry and proportional reasoning, middle school math covers a huge range of skills in a short time. Blaque's experience tutoring middle schoolers means she knows exactly where students tend to get stuck — and she's consistently helped them jump one to two grad...

Fractions, proportions, and early equation-solving are the skills that either build lasting math confidence or quietly erode it. Ian teaches middle schoolers to think about *why* cross-multiplication works or what a negative number actually represents, turning procedural steps into genuine understan...

Joseph's master's in special education and his secondary teaching background mean he knows how to spot exactly where a middle schooler's understanding of something like integer operations or basic equations is breaking down — and how to reteach it in a way that actually lands differently the second ...

Taylor studied mathematics as her actual major, which means she can trace every middle school topic — from fraction operations to the first taste of variables — back to the deeper structure it's preparing students for. That perspective lets her explain *why* a rule works, not just how to follow it, ...

I'm not tutoring or buried in my textbooks, you will either find me rock climbing at the Triangle Rock Club, playing Ultimate Frisbee, working on my car, or enjoying the great outdoors (beaches, mountains, forests--you name it, I love it). On rainy weekends I enjoy tinkering with computers and old e...

I am an interdisciplinary educator with an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. My background is primarily in integrated arts learning and museum education and I specialize in visual arts, history and art history, and object-based learning. In all su...

I am a recent graduate from a masters program in biostatistics at Columbia University. I received my Bachelor of Arts in biological sciences, with a focus in neurobiology at Northwestern University. In August, I will be starting a doctoral program in biostatistics at NYU. I was a teaching assistant ...

I am a graduate of Wesleyan University, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with High Honors. With eight years of experience working in education, I've tutored students in math, science, history, and English, as well as helped students prepare for standardized tests. I've guided adults...

I am proud to be a part of Varsity Tutors! I am originally from San Antonio, TX; I completed my undergraduate education at Rice University in Houston where I received a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Currently, I am in my second year of medical school at Baylor College of Medici...

I am a graduate of Washington University in St Louis, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in History with minors in Humanities and Anthropology. Since graduation, I have worked as a tutor, teacher, and director of tutors at a charter public middle school in Boston. During this time I also received ...

I am a junior Mechanical Engineering major at Yale, and I hope to become a Naval Aviator after college. I am also a varsity sailor, and enjoy playing music with friends when I can get some free time. I have been tutoring my fellow students throughout my entire academic career, and I would best descr...