From ratios and proportions to basic geometry and early equation-solving, middle school math covers a huge range of skills in a short time. Erika's approach is to identify exactly where a student's understanding breaks down — whether it's fractions, decimals, or translating word problems into expres...

During her City Year service, Sharon worked full-time alongside middle schoolers performing in roughly the 10th percentile in math — and helped a quarter of them jump about 15 percentile points in one year. That experience taught her how to diagnose exactly where a student's understanding breaks dow...

The jump from elementary math to middle school math introduces ratios, proportional reasoning, and early geometry proofs that demand a different kind of thinking. Matthew tackles these topics with a visual, top-down approach — sketching out how a proportion works before drilling the cross-multiplica...

Medical school demands constant mental math — dosage calculations, unit conversions, physiological ratios — so Annie treats middle school topics like fractions, decimals, and proportional reasoning as the genuine building blocks they are, not busywork to rush through. Her 1540 SAT and 5.0 student ra...

Scoring a 1540 on the SAT means Felix has the quantitative chops to teach middle school math cold, but it's his science background — three associate degrees including microbiology — that shapes how he actually explains it. He treats topics like ratios, data interpretation, and basic equations as too...

Before becoming a formal tutor, Benjamin spent his high school years as the go-to classmate friends turned to for math help, and that knack for explaining things in plain language carries over especially well with middle schoolers. He tackles fractions, proportional reasoning, and early algebraic th...

Every middle school math struggle Molly sees traces back to something specific — maybe fraction operations never fully clicked, or proportional reasoning feels shaky under word-problem pressure. Her three years as an elementary classroom teacher gave her firsthand knowledge of what students were sup...

From ratios and proportions to early linear equations, middle school math covers a huge range of ideas in a short time. Esther's approach is to slow down at the specific point where a student gets stuck — whether that's fraction operations or coordinate graphing — and rebuild confidence from there. ...

The jump from elementary math to middle school math introduces fractions, decimals, ratios, and proportional reasoning all at once — and Sarah knows how to keep that from feeling overwhelming. She teaches students to spot the underlying structure in word problems, which makes topics like percent cal...

Four years of coaching middle schoolers through Yale MATHCOUNTS gave Zach a sharp sense for where students in this age group get stuck — whether it's fraction operations, proportional reasoning, or the first encounter with negative numbers. He adapts his explanations to how each student thinks rathe...