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Math Tutor And Math Help/ Math Is Fun In NYC






To be a math tutor is, really, to be an interpreter. At the essence of math tutoring is the need to expose a student to their own, most comfortable method for interpreting a problem. Math tutors aren’t there to tell a student how to do a problem, but we serve to reveal to the student a variety of problem solving methods and allow them to settle into that which is easiest for them.  

Math games then help a student to become fluent in their method and try to convince each student, with varying results, that math is fun.    

For me, when I think of math help, I am trying to figure out how I can teach students to help themselves because, on tests and in the real world when math comes into play, students will be, often, on their own applying the math skills they’ve learned.   

Math games for kids and other fun math games may make mathematics seem like something that isn’t applicable outside of a game or test or classroom, which is why I try to motivate students about math by exposing them to its real world applications.   

I also make sure that students take away from my lessons the fact that math answers aren’t the most important part of a problem. Online math courses, in school math courses, math tutors, anyone who has a proper understanding of mathematics realizes that it is the process of problem solving that is the key takeaway from any math equation.   

In order to encourage an understanding of the importance of process, I stress above all else that students show their work when solving math problems. Even when students are using math software to augment their learning, I urge them to show their work on paper. When playing a math game, they need to show their work. Kids math games are beneficial to learning but not if they detract from the work showing habits that are the foundation of any good mathematician.   

My approach as a math tutor is to use math websites to solve math problems as well as traditional math on paper worksheets for math practice. Math for kids, I think, must be able to exist on both electronic and paper platforms as the realities of the world in which students will apply their math mandates flexibility and fluency in both mediums of math.   

Be it 8th grade math or kindergarten math, I want all students to be able to master math and learn math from all of its angles, including its electronic one. Therefore, fun math games for kids are a valuable part of the math tutoring experience that I provide.   

To help with math, my first step is always getting to know the student. Math homework help may seem to be straightforward, but the truth is that each of us learn in different ways, so, to be a good math helper, I not only help students find what methods work best for them I also find the best way for explaining mathematics to each student based on their particular style of learning.   

A math teacher cannot always cater their lesson to everyone, and so some students may feel left out or confused because the concepts are being explained in a way that is contrary to how they are comfortable learning. Math homework however is given out with the expectation that all students will have relatively equal understandings of a lecture, but this is almost certainly not the case for many students in a class.   

When students feel left behind in this way, the concept of fun math begins to sound like a complete impossibility, and students may stop asking math questions as they fear that they are too far behind or are afraid of sounding stupid or have given up on math.   

One of my roles as a math tutor is to teach students like this that a given math class’ math wizard is only the student who learns in the same way that the teacher teaches. When I explain math to a student in a way that makes sense to them, they will learn that they too can be a great and mighty math wizard.    
Alexander M
Columbia English, Spanish, & Chinese Tutor
Columbia University
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