Award-Winning Middle School Math Tutors for Students in Peabody, MA

...a special interest in developmental psych. As a professional, I work with middle and high school aged youth as a full time mentor, helping them reach their full potential, very much including school success. I have worked with young people at every turn in my career and meeting learners where they are is something I am very passionate about. In my personal life I love basketball, spending time with my dog, and cooking.

...the request of my Spanish teacher. Before college, I took a gap year to pursue music. During the gap year, I tutored a neighborhood seventh-grade girl in math and writing. Over the years, I have come to better understand how much I enjoy providing one-on-one support to children. I have been particularly successful in helping children who easily get frustrated and lose patience. As a recent student, I would be very excited to help others...

My name is Farzana Patwa and I recently graduated from NYU Steinhardt with a Masters in Teaching Secondary Mathematics. I have 3+ years in tutoring and teaching computer science and math. While I have the most experience working with high school students, I have worked with students ranging from 11 years old to 50 years old! I hope to make math and computer science more fun and accessible for my students!

...always been interested in a wide variety of subjects and am continually looking to improve my understanding of other fields - and thus, the world. I am highly skilled in those subjects, ranging from algebra to history, and I speak fluent French and rudimentary Korean - and look to add more languages as well! I have many years of experience teaching all ages as I have been teaching figure skating classes since the age of...

...twenty-five years now. I like to focus on the writing process, reading comprehension and math skills. I have also worked extensively with students regarding task management, study techniques and organizational strategies. I have two children, one who is completing a program to become a Physician Assistant, and the other who is a college Sophomore studying to become a middle school science teacher. I spend my spare time reading and enjoying the company of family.

...subjects I love studying most on my own time. Explaining abstract ideas as a TA, as a volunteer in local schools, and as a frequent contributor to the student science magazine were some of my most rewarding experiences in college. Outside of academia, I love the outdoors, especially camping and back backing. After graduating from Swarthmore I worked as a caretaker on the Appalachian Trail for four months, and am now settling down to tutor...

...for 4 years for students from 1st grade through college. I received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Math from SUNY Geneseo and Master's degree in Secondary Education. I am very flexible in my teaching, adapting to student discoveries and questions in addition to alternating styles of teaching. I know that every learner is different and so I find ways to help all of my students, no matter how they learn best.

...to pursue advanced coursework and opportunities that weren't available to 99% of students in the area. As a result, I've joined Varsity Tutors as an effort to give back and try to help students get excited about learning various subjects, employing many of the methods that allowed me to succeed. While I tutor a wide range of subjects, I am most passionate about standardized test prep, math (all levels), writing, and economics.

I believe that all students can access and succeed in any curriculum area with the proper support and guidance

...acquire new skills and reach their learning goals. My teaching philosophy is based on experiential learning, which simply put means that my students learn by doing. Whenever possible instead of solving a single problem, I will give my student skills or frameworks to solve many problems. My experience comes from tutoring and teaching for over 10 years while I completed my undergraduate and masters degrees in physics. As much as I enjoyed physics research I...

I have experience tutoring at all levels, and one of my primary focus is to incorporate dialogic discourse into all of my tutoring sessions. This is a special type of teaching philosophy which focuses on allowing students to reach the answers rather than just showing them the right solution. I believe that a combination of dialogic discourse, critical thinking, and interest is necessary to truly understand a subject well.

...to many different, and more complex, problems rather than just the ones they have already encountered. Since graduating, I worked in Clinical Informatics until completing my obligatory 6-month active-duty training as an Army Reserve Officer at Ft. Sam Houston, TX. I recently moved up to Boston to study Health Informatics at Boston University. In my spare time, I enjoy reading books (scientific non-fiction, literature and science fiction), watching quality films, programming, skiing and surfing. I...

...1, pre-calculus, calculus 1, and other math subjects listed on my profile. I strongly believe that math is an integral part to becoming a well-rounded individual because it not only teaches concrete ideas, but it also teaches students problem-solving skills that can be applied to other disciplines as well. I am a former college softball player, and I have been involved with softball since I was 4 years old. Aside from math, I am a...

Hi, I'm Navina. I am a hard-working, enthusiastic pre-medical undergraduate studying Behavioral Neuroscience. I am interested in working with children and adolescents, helping them to fulfill their potential.

...Physics from Brandeis University with a focus in computational and theoretical biophysics. I know that STEM classes can be intimidating to many. Every student has their own way of learning. My job is to figure out how my students learn and work within that framework to demystify these subjects. Everyone starts life as a scientist, questioning everything in their environment, and my goal is to bring my students back to their inherent inquisitive nature. In...

I am currently a sophomore at NYU, majoring in Neuroscience, on the pre-Health track. I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and graduated from Lexington High School in 2016. Currently, I work as a research assistant in Brigham and Women's Hospital, where we study clinical pain management. I am also an instructor at the Lexington Debate Institute and have had experience instructing debate camp for two years.

I am a chemistry teacher in a public high school and enjoy science learning and teaching very much. I work day-in and day-out with students and am up to date with the curriculum of high school chemistry. I am excited about chemistry and how it affects our daily lives, and enjoy teaching.

...remaining at MIT and am currently pursuing a doctoral degree in NSE. Although I have tutored a wide range of subjects in the past, I am most passionate about topics in STEM (my favorites are Math, Physics, and Computer Programming in Python). I am a strong advocate for education, as I believe it is the most effective path towards progress in society, and that conviction is reflected in my work with students.

Hello! I have been a mathematics teacher for over 10 years, teaching many subjects ranging from basic math through Calculus and various age groups ranging from middle school through college. This has allowed me to become very experienced in teaching and helping students to understand and excel on their own. I have recently become a mother and hence now spend the majority of my time and energy entertaining an infant.

...students from a wide range of backgrounds and subjects, ranging from tutoring kindergartners in their first exposure to language arts and middle school students in algebra and reading, to assisting with lower-division collegiate math courses. I particularly enjoy helping students gain confidence with math. I believe that all students are capable of understanding math, and I seek to help them explore mathematical concepts in a way that makes the subject less abstract and more intuitive....