George

I graduated from Oxford with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2018, and have since worked primarily in designing educational software. Due to a recent career move in to becoming a self-employed consultant, I've found that I have a small amount of room in my schedule to indulge in my passion for teaching.

I prefer working with reasonably capable students: I can turn Bs in to A*s much better than I can turn Es in to Cs. And while I'm perfectly comfortable tutoring on any part of the A-level curriculum, my real speciality is pure mathematics.

I'm happy to travel anywhere in West London. I'm not a great fan of online lessons, unless as a necessary one-off with a regular student.

Tutoring Experience

I'm admittedly fairly new to this, after only a small amount of tutoring experience as an undergraduate. I do, however, volunteer at a local library teaching kids to code. Plus, as mentioned above, I have spent much of my career working in education, albeit in building tools for learning mathematics and computing, rather than teaching directly. So I have spent much of the past few years thinking about pedagogy and all the ways in which my own educational experiences could have been improved.

Tutoring Approach

Since maths is about understanding concepts rather than memorising facts, I like to focus on fundamentals and building strong mathematical intuition. It is my firm belief that students who really engage with deeply understanding the material will not only have more fun, but will ultimately be better at achieving the highest grades, since they'll be confident about solving unfamiliar problems.

I take a bespoke, learner-centric approach. A typical session is likely to involve reviewing recent class work or past papers, working out which sorts of questions the student has struggled with, and really drilling down in to those topics to build a solid base of understanding.