Whether you want to really understand it or just need to get through the course, we'll find a way for you to get it, and I'll show you why it's worth knowing. One-on-one tutoring with practice between sessions, built on what learning research shows works. From Ontario high school courses through master's level, online across Ontario or in person in Hamilton.
Physics and math, from the Ontario high school curriculum through master's level. Under each level are the courses students most often ask for help with.
Don't see your course? Ask me. If it's physics or math, there's a good chance I can help.
Every session is one-on-one and built around your course, whether you're aiming to master it or to pass it.
A problem set, a past test, your lecture notes, or just the topic that's confusing you.
We work real problems from your course until we hit the exact point where it stops clicking, then we fix that step.
I'll show you where the idea gets used, then you solve a fresh problem on your own. Afterwards you get a short note on what we covered and what to practise next.
The way sessions and practice work comes from studies of how people learn. Here are the main findings, with the papers behind them.
Bloom found that students tutored one-on-one scored about two standard deviations above students taught in a regular class.1 A later review of many studies found a smaller effect, but still the largest of any approach it compared.2
Every session is one-on-one and built around your course.
The same review found that computer tutors giving feedback on each step of a problem came close to human tutors (effect sizes of 0.76 and 0.79). Systems that only checked the final answer did less well.2
In sessions and in the study assistant, we look at your working line by line, not just the answer.
A major review of ten study techniques rated practice testing and spreading practice out over time as the two most useful.3 Recalling material, rather than rereading it, improves how much you remember a week later.4
You solve problems instead of rereading notes, and earlier problems come back over the following weeks.
High school students with open access to GPT-4 did better on practice problems but worse on exams once it was taken away. A version designed to guide students, without giving answers, largely avoided that harm.5
The study assistant asks questions and points to the step that went wrong. It doesn't hand over answers.
In a randomized trial in a Harvard physics course, students using an AI tutor built on teaching best practices, with expert-written step-by-step solutions, learned more in less time than students in an active-learning class.6
The study assistant works from worked solutions I've checked myself, one problem part at a time.
Feedback helps most when it answers three questions: where am I going, how am I doing, and what should I do next?7
After each session you get a short note: what we covered, what to practise and what comes next.
My MSc in Physics is in progress at McMaster University, where my research is in computational materials science. I have an A+ track record in physics and math, but it didn't come easily. I earned it by spending hours with the material until it made sense, so I remember exactly what it's like not to get it.
The more I learn, the more I find better ways to explain things than the standard curriculum does. I'm still close to your level, so I know where the confusion starts, and I can bring an idea down to earth and make it simple.
Some students want to really understand a subject, and some just need to get through the course. Both are fine.
I'm from northern Ontario, spent my undergrad years in Peterborough, and now live in Hamilton. Ontario is home, and the Ontario curriculum is what I teach.
All prices are in CAD per hour.
| Level | Online | In person, Hamilton |
|---|---|---|
| High school | $50 | $60 |
| College and first-year university | $60 | $70 |
| Upper-year university | $75 | $85 |
| Master's level | $90 | $100 |
Rates follow the level of the material, for physics and math alike.
In-person sessions take place in public spaces such as libraries.
Students under 18 book through a parent or guardian.
An AI study partner for practice between sessions, designed around the research above. It checks your working one step at a time against solutions I've verified, asks questions before it gives hints, and brings earlier problems back so they stick. It never hands over homework answers.
It will be included for tutoring clients. It's an AI, not a person, and it will always say so.
Example: solve 2x + 6 = 14
2x + 6 = 14
2x = 14 + 6
Check this step. To undo the +6, subtract 6 from both sides.
2x = ?
An illustration of how it will work. The assistant isn't live yet.
Tell me the course and what's giving you trouble, and whether you're aiming to master it or to pass it. Then we'll find a time.
Booking details are being set up.