Online Maths Tutor Mel

Bio

Hi, my name is Mel, I am a Master's graduate in Mathematics and a full-time professional maths tutor. I have been tutoring in some capacity for close to 10 years now. In the past 4 years alone, I've had 2000+ hours of experience, including 600+ with the Profs, supporting with care and dedication students of all levels up to university .

Fuelled by an intrinsic passion for the subject and its communication, I started tutoring in school as a teenager and continued throughout university. I graduated from my Master's degree as one of the top students in my year at the University of Manchester, where I initially developed an interest in Pure Maths. Since graduation, I've had a wonderfully diverse career path in life. I was a full-time online maths tutor for a year, where I honed my teaching and communication skills and became a more effective and engaging tutor. I then dabbled in a PhD in Mathematics at UCL and worked as a financial modelling analyst for a year each. Throughout my PhD and analyst life, I have always found time for tutoring, sometimes taking on 10 to 15 hours weekly during busy periods. I've now come back to tutoring full-time as I realised this is my true calling.

As for my hobbies, I love to cook. My mother taught me during high school. She is French, and an amazing cook who has even briefly worked at the 'Train Bleu' (you may know it as the restaurant where Mr Bean eats langoustines in Mr. Bean's holiday). So it runs in our blood. I'm also slightly obsessed with cycling. I like to go on multi-day bikepacking trips.

Teaching style

Ultimately, I take care to adapt lessons around your needs. However, lessons are typically based on lots of practical problem solving, discussing theory when necessary to solve problems. I find this is the best way to gain solid insight into any topic and develop strong problem-solving skills, crucial to unlocking great results. Moreover, this naturally creates space for dialogue, in which I constantly interrogate students, encouraging them to express their questions and ideas without judgment. This is what student crave and thrive on. We are able to get to the heart of your specific gaps in skills and knowledge, and instead of recreating a formal, lecture-style of presentation, I offer lots of clear, intuitive and visual insight, for example through analogies or pictures which will deepen your appreciation of the subject. Finally, I recognise the paramount importance of independent practice and exam-taking skills. We will work on improving the quality of the time you spend working on your own and regularly set homework to consolidate your learning. It is my sincere conviction that each of my students can find more confidence and enjoyment in the difficult subject that is maths.