Online Elementary School Math Tutor

Job Description

Online Elementary School Math Tutor | Varsity Tutors

The Tone:
This is a contract role at Varsity Tutors, offered remotely across eligible states. Varsity Tutors operates a Live Learning Platform, leveraging advanced technology and AI to deliver personalized learning experiences. This role is crucial for supporting thousands of elementary school students by providing tailored math instruction, significantly impacting their academic success and foundational understanding.

The TL;DR
• Role: Contract
• Type: Contract
• Location: Remote
• Pay: $40 hourly
• Mission: Transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and learning science to create personalized learning experiences.
• Tech Stack: AI-powered Tutor Copilot, Live Learning Platform

What You’ll Actually Do
• Provide: Deliver personalized 1-on-1 online math instruction to individual elementary students, fostering their academic success and understanding.
• Engage: Accept on-demand tutoring requests via the Instant Tutoring service whenever available, offering flexible support.
• Instruct: Break down multi-digit operations, fraction concepts, and word problems using hands-on manipulatives, drawings, and visual models.
• Adapt: Customize instruction using base-ten blocks, fraction strips, games, and multi-sensory approaches to support young learners at varying developmental readiness levels.
• Facilitate: Emphasize discovery-based learning, connecting math to everyday contexts such as cooking, shopping, and telling time, while building strong arithmetic foundations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Advanced subject mastery in elementary math, encompassing deep knowledge of number sense, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, basic fractions and decimals, measurement, time, money, geometry shapes, patterns, and introductory data interpretation.
• Experience: Proven ability to explain counting strategies, regrouping, and fact fluency while guiding students through skip counting, place value understanding, and basic geometric reasoning.
• Skills:
• Expert ability to identify common student struggles, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
• Strong communication skills complemented by a friendly and engaging teaching style suitable for young learners.
• Familiarity with elementary math standards for grades one through five and common challenges faced by students in areas like regrouping and understanding fractions.