Edmund Croft

Physics, Maths, Chemistry & Biology to A-level, other courses considered.

I enjoy showing you real-world applications of what we are studying. In our lessons, we will draw diagrams and break problems down into bite-size steps, and I will train you to ask yourself helpful questions such as “What do I already know?”, “Is this a sensible answer?” and “Did I expect those units?”.

I am used to sympathetically coaching young people in unfamiliar skills, having also been the principal teacher for a university folk dance club for five years.

I have three years' experience conducting tutorials in Materials Science at Cambridge University, having myself studied Natural Sciences there (specialising in Materials Science), including Physics and Chemistry. I created my own worked solutions to the weekly problem sheets, so I was able to explain clearly the process of finding the answer from the starting information, and target my teaching to the steps my tutees had difficulties with. I also supplemented the university's teaching materials with physical models I produced myself. I was able to introduce some pupils to useful topics from A-level Further Mathematics, which they had not studied at school.

In 2018, I taught the Maths and Physics component of the NCC International Foundation Programme for Engineers (of around GCSE/A-level level) at the Star Exeter language school, and since then I have tutored science and maths independently.

Feel free to contact me even if you are studying for a different qualification or an usual scientific topic - I have helped people studying ophthalmic dispensing and non-destructive testing as well as school science / maths, and may well be able to help you too.