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Recent graduate with a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh, where I studied with two scholarships. Previously graduated with a First Class Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the same university. Offering tuition to Maths/Further Maths students at secondary school (GCSEs, Nat5), Sixth Form (A-Levels, IB, Highers/Advanced Highers), or university level.
I have been tutoring on and off for the past seven years, officially tutoring three classes and seven individuals, while helping many others informally.
The two classes that did their exams (GCSE and IB exams, respectively) had a 100% pass rate. The individuals I tutored in A-Levels also saw a rapid rise in their grades and achieved their academic goals by getting into their dream universities. Finally, both individuals I helped with the university-level mathematics ended up getting As in their respective modules.
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.