Pre-med coursework in biology and neuroscience at the University of Chicago means Emerson lives in data — calculating concentrations, interpreting graphs, working with ratios — so the quantitative reasoning middle schoolers are developing feels like home turf. He's particularly effective at showing ...

Biotechnology coursework means Priya does math every day that grew directly out of what middle schoolers are learning now — ratios in solution prep, variables in experimental design, graphing to interpret results. She scored a 35 on the ACT and holds a 4.8 rating, and she's particularly effective at...

Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning are the concepts that quietly determine whether a student feels confident or lost for the rest of their math career. Joshitha uses visual models and real-world scenarios — scaling recipes, comparing speeds — to make these ideas click before introducing f...

Twenty-plus years of teaching at every level — from undergraduate tutoring at Duke to university courses in Colombia — means Miriam has seen the specific places where middle schoolers get stuck: fractions turning into decimals, ratios scaling into proportions, or the leap from numerical patterns to ...

At the middle school level, math shifts from arithmetic to reasoning — proportional thinking, negative numbers, basic geometry, and the earliest encounters with algebraic expressions. Michael has guided students through that shift for over thirty years, and his teaching certification means he's trai...

A biology major who uses math daily in lab work, Jason connects middle school math topics like ratios, proportions, and basic statistics to real scenarios students can actually picture. He's especially effective at untangling word problems — teaching students how to translate English sentences into ...

Ratios, proportions, and early equation-solving can feel like a sudden jump from elementary arithmetic, and that's usually where confidence wavers. Three years of tutoring middle schoolers gave Krina a sharp eye for the exact moment a concept stops making sense, so she can reteach it from a differen...

Ratios, proportions, and basic equation-solving are the building blocks that every later math course depends on. Nicholas brings a scientist's precision to middle school math, making sure each concept — from decimal operations to introductory graphing — is genuinely understood before a student moves...

Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning trip up more middle schoolers than almost any other topic — and Anushree has direct experience mentoring students through exactly these concepts. Her biology and economics training at the University of Florida means she can show kids where middle school ...

Fractions, ratios, and proportional reasoning trip up more middle schoolers than any other cluster of topics — and they're exactly the skills that determine whether a student feels confident walking into algebra. Harrison breaks these concepts down using concrete examples before moving to abstract n...