Katherine

Hi! My name is Katherine, and my background is in particle physics. I have always loved both maths and physics and completed a PhD at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva on the hunt for dark matter. I’ve been teaching one way or another for the last 6 years - from groups of undergraduates at university to tutoring students up to GCSE level. My goal is always to build up confidence, and we’ll tackle the hardest problems until they seem just like the easy ones!

I take on small cohorts of just two or three students at a time and aim to work with them long term, which allows me to offer highly tailored lessons, homework and quick responses between sessions if extra support is needed.

Our lessons might look like:

- Infinite infinities (via fractions, decimals and thought experiments)

- A journey from probabilities to deriving the Fermi equation, which aims to answer the question: where are all the aliens?

- Exploring the moons of our solar system, and proving mathematically why some look so different to others

- The evolution of our planet from a ball of lava to today, and how quadratics killed the dinosaurs

- How chaos theory shows up in geometry, and quickly spills into physics and biology

These lessons can be tailored to focus on the mathematical, biological, physical or chemical aspects. They offer excellent practice and motivation for core curricular concepts, and the opportunity to challenge and extend far beyond that. The level can be adapted for KS3 students new to the material, all the way up to GCSE students aiming for top marks. Choose your favourite and feel free to get in touch!

Willing to travel: 1 miles

Experience: Passion for a subject makes it ten times easier to learn, and I want my students to love maths much as I do. While most of our lessons will be focused on schoolwork, we might agree on some time to discuss fractals and infinity, chaos theory and quantum physics (yes, with my pre-GCSE students too!). Exploring topics beyond the curriculum can fire the imagination and give a huge confidence boost - when you`ve dived into such complex topics, an unfamiliar problem exam problem is a lot less daunting! Or maybe maths is more interesting when it`s practical, so we`ll explore real world problems grounded in everyday life. The right approach is different for every student, but whatever works for you, we`ll find it!

DBS Check: Yes