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Who my maths tutoring is for
My maths support is for university and college students. First-year maths is often the biggest jump, especially in IT and computer science programmes, where a maths module sits beside the programming and quietly decides how the semester goes. Some students need help keeping up with new topics. Others need someone patient to go back over the foundations a lecturer assumed everyone already had.
Search for a maths tutor in Durban and you'll find plenty of listings. What I offer is narrower: university-level maths, one-on-one, from someone who knows what it feels like to sit in a lecture and feel completely lost. No question is too basic. We start where you actually are, not where the module outline says you should be.
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What we cover in maths sessions
In maths, I tutor algebra, calculus, discrete maths, general mathematical principles and problem-solving strategies. In practice that means topics like the ones below, adjusted to what your module actually covers. Bring your study guide or a recent worksheet to the first session and we'll find the gaps together, rather than guessing.
If one area needs most of your attention, I have separate pages for calculus tutoring and discrete maths tutoring, which go into each subject in more detail. This page is the overview: how maths sessions work, where students usually lose marks, and how to study for a maths exam.
- Algebra: simplifying, equations, functions, exponents and logarithms
- Calculus: limits, derivatives and the start of integration
- Discrete maths: logic, sets, relations, counting and proofs
- Reading mathematical notation without panicking
- Word problems: turning a paragraph into an equation
- Strategies for questions you haven't seen before
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Maths for computer science and IT students
Discrete maths is where many IT and computer science students first meet maths that looks nothing like what they did before. Truth tables, set notation and proofs can feel abstract until you see why they're there. The logic in a truth table is the same logic you write in an if statement. Sets and relations sit underneath relational databases and SQL.
I study application development myself, so I can connect the maths to the code you're writing. Counting and functions come back when you ask how long an algorithm takes. Proof by induction looks a lot like recursion once you've seen both. That connection is often what makes the abstract parts finally stick.
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How a maths session works
Sessions usually run 60 to 90 minutes. At the start I'll ask what's coming up: a test, an assignment, or a topic that never clicked. Then we work through problems together, with you holding the pen. I explain a step, you try the next one, and we stop the moment something doesn't make sense instead of pushing past it.
When an explanation doesn't land, I find another angle. A derivative can be a slope, a rate of change, or the speedometer in a car. A truth table can be a list of every possible situation. One of those usually clicks. By the end of a session you should have worked examples in your own handwriting, not just a page of mine.
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Where maths marks usually slip away
Most lost marks in university maths don't come from never having seen the topic. They come from small habits that repeat. When we work together, I watch how you write out a solution as closely as whether the final answer is right, because the habit is what follows you into the exam room.
None of these mean you're bad at maths. Each one is fixable once someone points it out and you practise the correct version a few times. Keeping a short list of your own repeat mistakes, and checking for them before you hand in, is one of the simplest ways to protect marks.
- Expanding (a + b)² as a² + b² and losing the middle term
- Dividing both sides by x and losing the solution x = 0
- Forgetting the chain rule on the inside of a function
- Skipping steps, so one slip leaves nothing to earn method marks
- Mixing up “for all” and “there exists” in logic questions
- Never substituting an answer back in to check it
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How to study for a maths exam
Maths is learned by doing, so rereading notes feels productive but rarely is. Start with a list of the question types your module tests. For each type, attempt a problem with the worked solution covered, then check it honestly. Anything you got wrong goes on a list to redo in two or three days, without looking.
In the final week, do full sets of questions against the clock, because speed is part of the skill. If an exam is close and you're behind, my exam preparation sessions focus on exactly that: targeted revision, practice questions and a realistic plan for the time you have left.
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In person in Durban, or online across South Africa
I study at Emeris Durban North and tutor independently. In-person sessions can be arranged in the Durban area, which some students prefer for maths because it's easier to work side by side on paper. Online sessions run by video call with screen sharing, so you can join from anywhere in South Africa.
For maths online, it helps if I can see your working. Share a tablet screen, point a phone camera at your page, or photograph your attempt and share it. We'll sort out the set-up in our first conversation, so no session time is lost to it.
Wherever we meet, you get the same approach. In 2+ years of tutoring I've guided 150+ students across 24+ subjects. I graduated top of a class of 200+ in the IIE Higher Certificate in Mobile Application and Web Development and received the Full Stack Impact Award 2025. I'm still a student too, so I know what a heavy week of deadlines feels like.
