My objective is to make a positive difference in the lives of my students. I think I manage to do that more often than not.
My approach to tutoring is simple: I try to understand how a student is thinking by sharing how I am thinking and invite the student to do the same.
Since 2004, I have partnered with parents and students to improve math grades in school or prepare for the ACT and SAT standardized tests. My books on ACT and SAT math prep have sold more than 50,000 copies.
Most in-person tutoring is with students in Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, Westport, and Wilton.
Services offered
Academic tutoring
Academic tutoring can improve students’ grades and boost their confidence. I tutor students in grades 7-12 in Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, and Statistics.
Course selection and placement
My goal is to prepare students to take the most challenging math levels that they can handle. Information on math course selection.
Summer tutoring
Working over the summer sets students up for success in the fall. Summer is an excellent time to work on math because there are fewer distractions. Typical objectives would be to skip a year of math in school, repeat a course, or take other remedial steps.
ACT and SAT prep
The objective is to help students achieve standardized test scores that are consistent with their ability, transcript and goals.
By-products of test prep are learning how to take a large task and break it into manageable pieces, learning how to read and solve carefully, learning how to perform under pressure, and learning to overcome obstacles.
Written and published ACT and SAT prep books
My math prep books for ACT and SAT have sold more than 50,000 copies to Amazon, schools, tutoring companies and book stores.
Partners with other tutors
I routinely partner with verbal tutors who can prepare you for the reading and writing sections of the tests. I will be happy to refer you to an excellent verbal tutor available online or perhaps nearby.
Online tutoring
To be successful, the tutor and student have to establish a connection to build trust. During the pandemic all tutoring was online and I was pleased to see that establishing that trust could be accomplished just as effectively.
Although necessary, distance learning in school may have given people the wrong impression about online tutoring. Online tutoring is equally effective because:
A many-to-one relationship between a teacher and multiple students simply cannot compete with a one-to-one relationship with a tutor and a student. In tutoring there is no place for a student to “hide” or time during a session where a student is not fully engaged.
Powerful toolsets can be applied. My students share an online whiteboard (it is like having a shared book of pages that we both can see and write on). We can upload homework sheets and other materials, and write on them together. Students have access to their whiteboard pages 24x7.
Online tutoring can reduce your costs and is more flexible for schedule.
Recently mentioned in Westchester Magazine
March 2024
Featured on a podcast
Mr. Corn was interviewed on an informative podcast about math course selection and its implications for standardized testing and college admissions.
