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Algebra tutors on Saal
$28/hr
Lowest rate anyone charges
The first course that grades the method rather than the answer, and the first place a good math student can lose a grade in a single unit.
What you’ll work on
One of them is usually the reason. The topic underneath is what a tutor would put the first month into.
/01
“Answers are right when the numbers are small and wrong when they are negative.”
Reading an expression as a sentence, substituting, and simplifying without losing a sign. Almost every later mistake is a sign error that started here.
/02
“The work stops at the answer and never goes back to see if it fits.”
Variables on both sides, fractions, and the habit of checking the answer against the original sentence rather than against the back of the book.
/03
“A table can be filled in but the graph it draws is a guess.”
The same line read three ways — as a graph, an equation and a table — until moving between them takes no thought.
/04
“Every system gets solved the same way, whatever it looks like.”
Substitution and elimination, and knowing on sight which one is shorter. The method a student picks says more about their grade than their arithmetic does.
/05
“Factoring works on homework and falls apart on a timed test.”
Factoring, completing the square and the formula, plus the word problems that hide a parabola inside a story about a ball.
Bring the syllabus, the textbook or the last score report to a first lesson. Every Algebra tutor here plans against what you actually have, not against a standard course.
How a first lesson is runWho teaches it
In whichever order you find useful. Thirty minutes with any of them is free, so meeting two before you choose costs nothing but the evening.
What it costs
Tutors set their own rate and Saal adds nothing on top of it. These are the bands they set it inside, the same in every subject, and the lowest anyone charges to teach Algebra is $28/hr.
Move or cancel any lesson up to twelve hours ahead at no charge, and the card is charged the morning after a lesson happens. Packages and refunds.
Middle school
$35/hr
what most tutors charge here
Pre-algebra and first-year algebra, where negative numbers and fractions still cost the marks.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$35/hr
$336/mo
8 lessons a month, at $42 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $42 off that.
Your first thirty minutes
01
The tutor works two or three of the questions you lost points on, out loud, with you.
The terms, in full
02
Algebra is rarely lost at the topic. It is lost at one step inside it, and that step has a name.
It will be one of these five
Questions
Nearby
The rest of Math first, then whatever else is taught at the same levels.
All sixteen subjects