Experienced IB/ IGCSE/GCSE Diploma Program Math Teacher and Examiner, holds a Bachelor of Mathematics with 21+ years of Mathematics teaching experience.
Experience teaching all grades, including advanced functions, calculus, vectors, and data management, on multiple occasions.
Tutored students from grade 7 to first-year university mathematics.
Honours Math Specialist
Bachelor of Education
Honours Bachelor of Mathematics
My teaching philosophy involves teaching for learning and understanding rather than using formulae and memorizing. My goal is to have students make sense of the concepts being taught. They will experience far more success in the long term and hence on the final exam if they genuinely comprehend rather than memorize an algorithm of steps to perform a given problem.
I typically run my diagnostic test with the student to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Once we select a topic, I would ask the student some simple questions about that concept. I would be able to gather evidence on things such as - how much the student understands, whether you are making conceptual or arithmetic errors, and whether or not the student has memorized the steps rather than grasped the key learnings. From there, I can alter my lesson to accommodate the student's best interests.
Darren was a fantastic tutor. My son needed help preparing for the IB Analysis and Approaches exam and Darren more than sufficiently prepared him. My son thoroughly enjoyed Darren's classes and learned what he needed to for the gaps he had from his school. I strongly recommend him as a tutor. Thank you, Darren!
Darren was amazing! He really knew his stuff and was able to make me understand.
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