Giancarlos

I am an internationally awarded science communicator with a decade of experience in 1-1 tutoring, classrooms, and lecture halls teaching math, SAT/ACT prep, and IB/AP math, physics, chemistry, and biology. I have a bachelor's degree from Coe College and I tutor grades 9-College.

My tutoring style:

I am passionate and innovative about the topics I learn. My sessions are full of anecdotes, metaphors, and custom-made animations – all of which I adapt to the strengths of my student. Sometimes you forget you're learning math and, all out the sudden, BOOM! Congratulations, you now find AP Calculus easy and got a 5 on the exam with 20 minutes extra time to take a nap if you so wish.
I measure your progress in different skills throughout our time together and quantify that data so that I know precisely what skills we need to target at any given time. This has taken my testing students from the 10th percentile to the 99th percentile.

Success story:

Sometimes in life you have more responsibilities than studying – and this has been the case with many of my students. One of them absolutely hated math, but needed to graduate high school to get a better job. Despite working 3 jobs at the time, we found time to meet twice a week. Once we got her D- to an A, she decided to take the SAT, take AP calculus, AP physics, and AP English – all of which we worked to a perfect score. She went on to graduate from Yale and is now pursuing a PhD in pure mathematics in Harvard.

Hobbies and interests:

I've been a martial artist my whole life, practicing arts such as wing chun, tai chi, shotokan karate-do, jiu jitsu, muay thai, and MMA. I also play the flute, I love cooking, and learning languages!