Irakli Antidze

As a teacher, my main goal is to make maths a subject that is enjoyable to learn about. Numerous studies have shown that learning is easier and faster, and the information sticks with you longer, when you are interested in the topic you are studying. All of this makes learning maths less of a miserable experience and, in my experience, produces better exam results. To do this, I aim to cut down on memorisation as much as possible - instead of wasting time brute forcing information into your head, it is a lot easier and more beneficial to learn by understanding the logic behind the different topics and seeing how they link together. To this end, I like to use visual aids such as graphs and pictures, and I ensure to use many examples and introduce the motivation for the topics first before getting to theorems and generalisations.

When you get to a high level of mathematics, it may be difficult to realise why a student may not be able to understand something that someone proficient in mathematics may regard as trivial or easy. However, as someone who still remembers the process of learning and mastering the content that I teach, I can offer different perspectives and approaches from my own recent encounters with these topics - what I may lack in teaching experience, I make up for with my experience in having taken these exams in the past few years. Also, as a very recent maths graduate myself, I’ve had to develop my own methods of tackling the difficulties that crop up when learning maths, and these are the methods that I can provide to help clear up confusion in my students.