Math and physics are the language of the universe — hiding inside the music your student loves, the sports they play, the things they dream about. But most students never hear it that way. When they do, everything changes.
“I have LITERALLY watched frustration melt into absolute understanding of the subject.” — Patrick R., Parent
Behind every “I’m just not a math person” is one moment: a teacher who embarrassed them, a concept that never clicked. That’s the story we transform.
It’s not tutoring. It’s becoming.
2,000+ students since 2009, now at Stanford, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell.
The math they do tonight is the future they launch.
The Alexander Difference
When math serves what your student loves, it has a purpose. With a purpose, they stop asking “When will I ever use this?” and start using it to go after what they want.
Every student already loves something. We find it: soccer, music, coding, art. Then we match them with a tutor who loves it too and can show them the math already running inside it. Angles on a corner kick. Ratios in a chord.
“Once he found out that my daughter loves soccer, he added a lot of soccer themes to his teaching — angles, corners, distance. She was more than happy to continue with Sam as her tutor.”
— Mihir M., Parent (Google)
Ask anyone what π is and they’ll say 3.14. Ask what it means and you’ll get a blank stare. It’s how many times a circle’s diameter wraps around its edge, and once a student sees that, they never have to memorize it again. Most students survive math on rules like that, until one unfamiliar problem sinks them. We teach the why behind every formula, so when the curveball comes, they knock it out of the park.
“After the first session he came home and could not stop talking about Physics. Last week he came home from class literally jumping up and down — he’d been able to explain a process as one of the only ones because Tyler had explained it to him the day before.”
— Yasmin D., Parent (Google)
Then something shifts. The soccer player stops doing homework and starts working out free-kick angles. The future engineer stops asking for the formula and starts asking what else it can build. At that point it isn’t math anymore. It’s their dream, and they’re the one driving it.
“Krishann has improved my daughter’s math skills, but more than that, she’s improved how my daughter feels about math — and that translates to how she feels about herself as a learner. If they had their own school, we would enroll full time.”
— Susan C., Parent (Google)
“It’s such a relief to know that my kids are going to be able to advance in math and science in ways that I personally can’t help them.”
How it Works
Three steps. The first one costs nothing.
No credit card. No commitment. No catch. Your student works through real problems one-on-one while the tutor watches where they hesitate. Afterwards you get a skills assessment that reveals exactly which gaps are holding them back. It’s yours to keep either way.
The biggest factor in your student’s success isn’t the curriculum. It’s the chemistry. We match on personality, passions and learning style, and 80% of students click with their first tutor, 95% by the second. Not the one? Try another, free, as many times as it takes.
Weekly one-on-one tutoring, plus nightly office hours so homework help never waits for the next session. No contract, cancel anytime, and the whole semester is guaranteed. Confidence comes first. The grades follow.
Every tutoring company says it hires the best. We prove it. We recruit working physicists, mathematicians and engineers from across the country, then grade every one of them, every night, on the Rocket Star Score.
Rebecca triple-majored in Physics, Theatre and Secondary Education, then earned a Master’s in STEAM Curriculum Design and another in Chemistry. She fell for physics watching Star Trek as a kid, and now works with the artists, performers and future engineers who’ve been told math isn’t for them.
We’re so confident in our method that we guarantee your results for the entire semester. If you’re not satisfied at the end of the term, we’ll refund every penny. No fine print. No partial credits. A full refund.
No other tutoring company in the country offers this.
Your student meets one-on-one with a tutor and works through real problems together while the tutor observes where they hesitate, which foundational skills might be shaky, and how they approach problem-solving. Afterward, you’ll receive a complimentary skills assessment with a 30-day game plan — yours to keep no matter what.
Every level of math: pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, pre-calculus and calculus through AP Calculus. Plus physics through AP Physics, chemistry, and SAT Math, ACT Math and ACT Science. Every lesson is one-on-one and online.
We don’t tutor SAT Reading & Writing or ACT English. We’d rather be the best in the country at what we do.
Try another one. And another. You get as many risk-free trial sessions as it takes to find the perfect match — no credit card, no charge. We match the right tutor on the first try about 80% of the time, and our second-attempt success rate is over 95%. You’ll know when it clicks.
Because the most important factor in your student’s success is the quality of their tutor — not their zip code. By recruiting nationally, we find educators like Rebecca (triple major, two master’s degrees) who you’d never have access to locally. Our sessions use a digital whiteboard where your tutor writes math in real-time with a tablet and stylus. It’s true one-on-one attention with no distractions — nothing like the Zoom classroom your kid endured during COVID.
We work with families across the country, with dedicated teams in San Francisco, the Bay Area, New York and more.
One-on-one tutoring is $895/month: a dedicated weekly session with your tutor, nightly office hours for homework help, monthly progress reports, and direct tutor access between sessions. If your student only needs homework help, office hours on their own are $295/month. No signup fee. No contract. Cancel anytime. And it’s all backed by our Full Semester Guarantee — if you’re not satisfied at the end of the term, we refund you in full.
In our four-year study of 147 students, math growth on the national MAP Growth test averaged about twice what national norms project for similar students (6.7 vs. 3.3 points), and 57% met or beat their individual projection. But parents tell us the real transformation happens faster — their student stops dreading homework, starts volunteering answers in class, and actually feels proud of their math work.
The broader research agrees: a review of randomized trials found that tutoring produces some of the largest learning gains of any school intervention (Nickow, Oreopoulos and Quan, 2020).
That’s exactly what we specialize in. If your student says they hate math or they’re “just not a math person,” that’s almost always the result of a specific experience — a harsh teacher, an embarrassing moment in class, one bad test that spiraled. It’s not about intelligence, and it’s not too late. We find the foundational gaps holding them back (you’d be surprised how many high school seniors still struggle with fractions from 4th grade), rebuild from there, and rewrite the story. Our tutors remember what it felt like not to get it. So the moment your student thinks “I’m too stupid for this,” someone is right there to show them they aren’t, and “I can’t” becomes “I’ve got this.”
