Welcome! Thanks for visiting the Ph.G. Math Tutoring Education Platform
Welcome! Thanks for visiting the Ph.G. Math Tutoring Education Platform
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I love tutoring math. I am qualified to tutor for any math course from middle school up through college graduation level. This includes the full calculus sequence and well beyond, plus math-heavy courses like statistics. At the very advanced college math majors upper class level, there are some courses that I might be less comfortable tutoring, but contact me and we can discuss it.
Tutoring high level material is fun. But unlike many Ph.D. Mathematicians, I greatly enjoy working with students struggling even with basic material. Now with over a decade of experience as a professional tutor, I have worked with hundreds of students and I’ve learned how to find a student’s level — whether having issues on how to prove a vector space, or issues on how to add fractions — and bring them along from there.
On the personal side, I grew up in Normal and graduated from Normal Community High School in 1994. Later that summer I met my wife Christine, and we got married in 1999.
In 2015, we had our oldest son Zach. Then in 2024, we adopted Aubrie and Miah – and all three of them are within 18 months of each other! It’s a busy household, but well worth it.
In addition to tutoring, I am also the part-time campus minister for AGAPE/Judson Fellowship at ISU. As for hobbies, I’m a big sports fan, particularly MLB baseball, WNBA basketball, and PWHL hockey. I enjoy writing, and I am an occasional columnist for the Pantagraph newspaper
When I retire, I would like to… do some math tutoring. 🙂
Note for precollege students
I have professionally tutored essentially every math course offered at the middle- or high-school level. I’ve worked with students from Normal Community, Normal West, Bloomington, Central Catholic, U High, Olympia, Lexington, Ridgeview, LeRoy, Tri-Valley, Prairie Central, and a number of middle schools as well. In addition, I have tutored students in preparation for standardized exams:
Note for college students
I am qualified to tutor virtually any undergraduate math course. I have worked with students from Illinois State, Illinois Wesleyan, Heartland, Lincoln, as well as several online academic programs. I have prepared students for standardized tests: the GRE, the GRE math subject test, and the first actuarial exam. Specifically for ISU students, below are the ISU math courses for which I have actually tutored professionally already. (Note that my qualifications are not limited to this list.)