Online Discrete Math Tutor

Job Description

About The Job

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform is seeking online Discrete Math tutors nationally. This opportunity offers the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a significant impact on students’ academic success and understanding, all from the comfort of your home.

Why Join Our Platform?

• Competitive Earning Potential: Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
• Fast & Reliable Compensation: Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring timely compensation for your tutoring sessions.
• Flexible Schedule: Set your own hours and tutor as much or as little as you’d like, providing complete control over your work-life balance.
• Remote Work: Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform, eliminating the need for commuting.
• Student Matching: Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise, ensuring productive and enjoyable sessions.
• AI-Powered Support: Utilize our AI-powered Tutor Copilot to enhance your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, saving you prep time.
• Logistics Handled: We manage all payment logistics; you simply invoice for your tutoring sessions.

What We Look For In a Discrete Math Tutor

• Advanced Subject Mastery:
  • Deep knowledge of logic and proof techniques, set theory, combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, recurrence relations, Boolean algebra, algorithms, and formal languages.
  • Ability to explain mathematical induction, counting principles, modular arithmetic, and tree structures.
  • Capability to prepare students for computer science theory, cryptography, and advanced mathematics coursework.
• Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving:
  • Skilled at breaking down proof construction using direct, contrapositive, and contradiction methods.
  • Ability to guide students through combinatorial counting, graph coloring and traversal problems, solving recurrence relations, and applying the pigeonhole principle.
  • Emphasis on logical reasoning and rigorous argumentation, connecting discrete structures to database design, networking, and algorithm analysis.
• Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction:
  • Familiarity with discrete mathematics curricula and common challenges (e.g., writing formal proofs, distinguishing permutations from combinations, understanding graph theory terminology).
  • Ability to adapt instruction using truth tables, Venn diagrams, visual graph representations, and programming-based exercises.
  • Experience supporting computer science and mathematics majors at the undergraduate level.
• Effective Teaching Methods:
  • Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with.
  • Explaining material using multiple approaches and adapting instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.
  • Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.
  • Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.

Ways To Connect With Students

• 1-on-1 Online Tutoring: Provide personalized instruction to individual students through scheduled sessions.
• Instant Tutoring: Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you’re available for immediate assistance.

About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring

Varsity Tutors’ mission is to transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and the latest in learning science to create personalized learning experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction designed to help them achieve their learning goals. The platform is designed to match students with the right tutors, fostering better outcomes and a passion for learning.

Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.