Affordable math tutoring
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| 5th grade DD struggles in math. After two years of tutoring twice a week, she’s made solid progress and is finally working at grade level. I expect it will never be her strongest subject, but she doesn’t have the same anxiety she had about math now and actually likes it. We can’t afford the commitment of twice weekly tutoring anymore and I’m wondering if there are more affordable, lower key ways supporting her in math. Growing up I had a high school honor student who helped me as part of her volunteer service. Then I did the same for younger students when I was in HS. Are there organized programs like that still? I am awful and anxious about math so don’t want to pass that on to DD. DH is good with math but works very long hours and can’t help her consistently. Thank you! |
Anonymous
| Call your HS math department or try a neighborhood listserv |
Anonymous
| Check with your local high school for students who can tutor from NHS (National Honor Society). |
Anonymous
| Are you in MoCo? Check out the Saturday School. It’s $70/year. There’s extra math tutoring also that’s quite inexpensive. Not sure what you’re paying for math tutoring but Mathnasium is $200-$300/month. |
Anonymous
| Look on wyzant.com. Not sure what you were paying before, but when I tutor in fairfax I only charge $30/hr. There are cheaper options. |
Anonymous
| TLC charges only $85 an hour, that was a lot less than what other people quoted me. |
Anonymous
+1 Blair magnet students tutor, as well. My son had a Blair tutor during middle school and it helped enormously. |
Anonymous
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Put a request on your HS listserve, many HS students tutor HS and MS students (some for money and some for SSL hours).
It is a great resource |
Anonymous
| Where do you live,OP |
Anonymous
| OP here: Thanks so much for the recommendations. We are in MoCo. We did private tutoring for one year and Mathnasium for two. The latter is $300/month. Over three years we’ve paid more than $11K in tutoring which is tough for our family. DD has made progress and is nearly caught up, so I’m hoping we won’t need to do as much supplementing in the future. I will try calling the local high school and NHS for recommendations. |
Anonymous
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Hi OP,
I have a daughter in college and I’ve paid for math tutors for her since 7th grade. Normally tutors we used cost $60/$70/$80 per hour. It’s cost us a fortune over time. I have a son now a junior in high school who is a math whiz. When they were younger I couldn’t pair them up because they fought. Now I pay my son $20/hour to tutor my daughter. He’s terrific at it, and he loves the money. It adds up quick and he’s made a killing, but I’m not going bankrupt. I’d really suggest checking out high schools. My son definitely wouldn’t do it for free, (there are way easier and more fun ways to get service hours for high school). But he drives, has a car and would do it for $20/hour-it’s a real bargain. I’m sure you could find someone similar at a high school near you. |
Anonymous
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I'm interested in how your son actually tutors? Does he prepare extra material?
Are we just talking about sitting there and making sure homework is done correctly and giving a few hints when DD gets stuck? I'm glad it works for your family, but I am just wondering how often it can be replicated? |
Anonymous
$85 an hour is cheap?? How about instead of all of you pushing your kids spending thousands on them, just let them take the level of math that works for their current brain. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
I thought OP mentioned that her daughter was initially struggling below grade level.... |