Discrete Math Tutor

Job Description

About The Job

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform is looking for online Discrete Math tutors to support thousands of students nationally. As a tutor on our platform, you will enjoy 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.
• Reliable Payments: Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for your tutoring sessions.
• Flexible Schedule: Set your own hours and tutor as much or as little as you’d like.
• Remote Work: Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting is required.
• Student Matching: Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• AI-Powered Support: Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.
• Logistical Support: We handle all payment logistics; you just 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 to support computer science and mathematics majors at the undergraduate level.
• Effective Teaching Methods:
  • Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with.
  • Capability to explain material using multiple approaches and adapt 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.
• Instant Tutoring: Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you’re available.

About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring

Our 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 that helps them achieve their learning goals. Our 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.