online Custom Math Tutoring

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My name is Reid Davis, and I offer online custom math tutoring. I work primarily with high school students (whether homeschooled or attending public or private schools) and university undergraduates, but I am happy to tutor students at any level. My qualifications include a doctorate in mathematics, thirty-three years teaching college and university students, twenty-five homeschooling my own children, one teaching middle schoolers at a charming Montessori school, five working as a private tutor, and some talent (I am told) for explaining difficult topics. I have taught many of the undergraduate courses that a university math department would typically offer, including all (algebra, geometry, precalculus, calculus, and statistics) that overlap the high school curriculum—in addition to undergraduate and graduate math courses for teachers of all grades. For details please see my resumé and my students’ comments below.

Thus, in God’s providence I have spent a preposterously large part of my life helping students understand math. It is work that I love and enjoy. Decades of study and teaching, both in the classroom and one-on-one, have taught me to understand not only the mathematics itself but also my students’ struggles with it—the mistakes they make, the misconceptions they develop, the topics they fear, the topics that confuse them—enabling me to guide them in making sense of it. I tailor my tutoring to my students, attending to both the big picture (e.g., maintaining the right pace to finish the required material for the week, month, or year) and the details (e.g., keeping tabs on how well my students grasp each new concept).

This facilitates my providing flexible, capable instruction to students in a wide variety of circumstances. I can work with any textbook or none at all, meet with a single student or a group, and provide an emergency help session before tomorrow’s exam or design and teach a course from scratch.

During the pandemic I moved all my tutoring online, drawing on my experience designing online math classes at the University of Tennessee and the University of the Cumberlands. Afterward I continued tutoring online, finding that its convenience—for both student and tutor—outweighs its drawbacks. Armed with high-speed Internet, a fast laptop, a second monitor, a graphics tablet, good headphones, a 1080p webcam, and subscriptions to Zoom (video conferencing) and BitPaper (a collaborative online whiteboard), I can teach you math in a manner that is effective and pleasant. My students seem to like the results!

If you are interested or have questions, please get in touch. I will gladly set up a free introductory meeting to show you how my online setup works!

Thank you for stopping by. I look forward to hearing from you.

Pricing

Online Tutoring

• Individual Students: $80 per hour

• Groups: Discounts available

Discounts

• New Students (first lesson): 50% off

• Established Students (beginning with the seventh session): $5 off per hour

• Local Students (from East Tennessee, more or less): $5 off per hour

• SMHEA (Smoky Mountain Home Education Association) members: $5 off per hour

Other

At some families’ requests I have provided tutoring in chemistry and ACT prep. I can offer other services as well—designing or teaching courses for groups of homeschool students, providing enrichment instruction for strong math students, grading tests and homework, giving guest lectures on math history, or consulting with graduate students about mathematical aspects of their research. The price will reflect the nature and scope of the work.

Contact

Please call or text (865) 951-4024, email rdtutor@outlook.com, or use the form below.

 Student Comments

To promote good instruction, universities typically solicit students’ evaluations of their professors’ teaching. They often encourage candid responses by using anonymous surveys and reporting the results to professors only after they have submitted grades each term. Below I have listed a few of my students’ comments on such surveys from recent semesters.