Tristan

Hi Tutorhunt!

I am an experienced tutor based in South London with a friendly, individualised approach to teaching. With more than 1000 hours of teaching maths and sciences to students of all ages and backgrounds, I believe showing students more than one way to approach a problem empowers them to solve it and understand it more comprehensively.

An example! Susie stares at a problem I pose to them involving solving two simultaneous equations with two unknown variables and is baffled. Susie is uncomfortable with algebra but is a visual thinker and enjoys looking at graphs and data. I proceed to encourage Susie to take `path B` : re-arrange the two equations and graph them on a plot. Susie quickly finds that they intersect at a specific point and sees that this is solution where these equations both hold true!

This is a short and sweet anecdote which represents my favourite way of teaching: playing to the student`s strength builds their confidence and allows them to compare thinking techniques they know to equivalent techniques they are not as strong with.

I grew up in Boston, USA, and now live in South London; enjoying hobbies such as tennis and tinkering on the piano.

Availability: All week (morning/afternoon/evening), flexible

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Willing to travel: 3 miles

Experience: I have both classroom assistant experience and an extensive number of hours in private tutoring of maths and sciences. I worked as an assistant teacher for the Summer Courses programme at the Museum of Science, Boston, before going on to teach as a maths instructor for Mathnasium in both the USA and UK.

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