/01
“The diagram in the margin stays empty while the work runs down the page.”
Angles and parallel lines
The named angle pairs, and the habit of marking a diagram before writing anything. Most geometry errors are things that were never drawn.
Geometry tutors
268
Geometry tutors on Saal
$28/hr
Lowest rate anyone charges
The one math course that asks for an argument. Students who can compute fine often stall the week proofs start, and that is a writing problem wearing a math hat.
MiddleHigh
What you’ll work on
Five things people say before they book.
One of them is usually the reason. The topic underneath is what a tutor would put the first month into.
/02
“Every pair of triangles gets the same reason written under it.”
Triangles and congruence
The congruence and similarity shortcuts, what each one actually needs, and why two of them look identical and are not.
/03
“The statements are right and the reasons column says because.”
Writing a proof
Two columns, a reason for every line, and the trick of working backwards from the thing you were asked to show.
/04
“Circle problems get skipped and come back to at the end.”
Circles
Arcs, chords, tangents and the inscribed-angle rules, which are four theorems that look like twelve until they are sorted.
/05
“The graph gets drawn but the proof still argues from the picture.”
Coordinate geometry
Distance, midpoint and slope used as evidence — proving a shape is what it claims to be rather than measuring it.
None of them quite it?
Bring the syllabus, the textbook or the last score report to a first lesson. Every Geometry tutor here plans against what you actually have, not against a standard course.
How a first lesson is runWho teaches it
Geometry, taught by 3 of these 268.
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
Priced by level, not by subject.
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 Geometry 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
Area, volume and the angle rules, before proofs arrive and change what the subject is.
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
Thirty free minutes, and this is what they are for.
01
Draw the last problem again
The tutor watches you mark up one diagram, which is where the fault usually shows.
The terms, in full
- Free
- 30 minutes
- No card asked for
02
Say the proof out loud
Most students can argue it and cannot write it. Those need different fixes, so the tutor finds out which.
It will be one of these five
- Angles and parallel lines
- Triangles and congruence
- Writing a proof
- Circles
- Coordinate geometry
Questions
What people ask before they book.
Nearby
Where people go next.
The rest of Math first, then whatever else is taught at the same levels.
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