Boise, Idaho · 1-on-1 math tutoring

Margin note Every wrong step stays on the board until it makes sense. Nothing gets erased quietly.

Wrong is the interesting part.

1-on-1 math tutoring where mistakes get circled, not hidden.

solve for x

3x + 7 = 22

3x = 22 + 7 = 29

↑ the 7 moved across the equals sign without flipping. We leave the wrong line up — that is how you actually learn it.

3x = 22 − 7 = 15

x = 5

then check it: 3(5) + 7 = 15 + 7 = 22 ✓ — the step nobody shows you

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The working continues below ↓

The work

Four things we work on. All of them start with what isn't working.

You bring the messy page. We find the exact step where it went sideways, put the correction next to the mistake, and leave both on the board so you see them twice.

01 7 + 5 = ? Elementary

Elementary number sense

Before fractions make sense, counting has to feel solid. We build number sense out loud — with fingers, ten-frames, and a lot of explaining back to me — and let the speed come later.

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02 3(x − 4) = 2x + 1 Homework

Homework help sessions

We don't do the homework for you. We sit with the page until you can do the next one on your own — including the two problems you were quietly planning to skip.

Bring tonight's page

Pencil workings in a notebook with mistakes circled and corrected in red pen — **fig. 1** The working stays visible: pencil first, corrections in crimson after. Most sessions end with a page that looks worse than it started.

03 y = mx + b Bootcamp

Algebra bootcamps

The week the letters show up, a lot of kids quietly decide they're bad at math. The bootcamp is built around that week: variables, signs, and order of operations until the letters stop being scary.

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04 grid-in: 7/8 Test prep

SAT & ACT math prep

Test math rewards the kid who knows which mistakes to expect. We drill the timing, the no-calculator section, and the questions that are designed to look impossible at first glance.

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How booking works

Three steps to a booked session. None of them are phone tag.

The board gets wiped between every session, so here is the whole process chalked in one take — what you send, what you get back, and what to bring to the first one.

Chalkboard mid-wipe with half-erased algebra steps and an eraser on the tray — wiped and re-chalked between every session.

1
Tell me what's not clicking

Send a note with the grade, the subject, and the page that made no sense last night. Two minutes of typing, no phone call required.
2
Pick a slot from the open hours

You get back the times that are genuinely free that week, and you choose the one that fits around school pick-up, practice, and dinner.
3
Show up with the messy work

Bring the homework, the test, the torn-out page. We start with the wrong step, because that's the one worth keeping.

When the board's open:

After school · Monday to Thursday
Saturday mornings
Evenings · by request
Boise, Idaho

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A tutor mid-explanation at a chalkboard, seen from the side

Hands pointing at a worked math problem on paper

Off the board

One room, one board, one student at a time.

I'd rather a session be uncomfortable and useful than smooth and forgettable. You'll hear me ask "why did that work?" far more often than you'll hear me hand over an answer. Bring the wrong step — it's the most useful thing you can put on the table.

1-on-1 math tutoring
SAT / ACT math prep
Elementary number sense
Algebra bootcamps
Homework help

Book

Nobody gets it the first time.

That's not a problem — that's the job.

Send a note and you'll get next week's open times back, so nobody has to play phone tag between school pick-up and dinner. Tell me the grade and the thing that isn't clicking, and I'll bring the chalk.