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The Math Department Tutoring Lab offers FREE tutoring for 1000-level and 2000-level VT MATH classes. Students can drop-in anytime the tutoring lab is open. No appointment is necessary. Information for Fall 2024 is below.

Location: McBryde 136
Hours: Mondays - Thursdays: 9AM-9PM; Fridays: 9AM-5PM; Sundays: 2PM-6PM
Dates: August 26 - December 12, when VT classes are in session*.
Courses tutored: MATH 1014, 1025, 1026, 1214, 1524, 1225, 1226, 2114, 2204, 2214, 24O5H, 2406H, 2534

*The tutoring lab is closed on the following dates for Fall 2024: September 1, September 2, October 11, October 13, November 24 - December 1.  

The Student Success Center offers individual tutoring by appointment for many subjects.

A great way to see a Student Success Center tutor quickly is to attend weekly drop-in tutoring for some of their most popular courses. No appointment necessary! Come prepared with questions or material to work on, and a tutor will be there to help.

Student Success Center's MATH Course Drop-In Schedule for Fall 2024

COURSE DAY Time LOCATION  
MATH 1025 Tuesday 6:30-8:30PM Engel 219  
MATH 1225 Monday 5:30-7:30PM McBryde 204  
MATH 1225 Sunday 2-4PM Davidson 325  
MATH 1226 Wednesday 6:30-8:30PM Hutcheson 207  
MATH 1226 Thursday 5:30-7:30PM Hutcheson 207  
MATH 1524 Monday 6-8PM Saunders 408  
MATH 2114 Tuesday 5:30-7:30PM Cheatham 317A  
MATH 2204 Tuesday 6:30-8:30PM Goodwin 241  

Virginia Tech has proudly partnered with Knack, a platform enabling students to book course-specific peer tutoring services.

Knack Tutors are fellow students who have previously aced the courses they offer assistance in. Tutoring is completely free, and sessions can take place in-person or online. View the Knack platform.

 

If you would like to send a request for a private tutor to the entire list of available math tutors, please send an email to math_tutors-g@vt.edu   with your contact information and request. Make sure to indicate the course in the subject line of your email. Interested tutors will respond directly to you. 
Private tutors will charge you a per session fee.

Beginning Thursday, September 12, the Math Department is offering student engagement hours (office hours) for some classes in the lounge of Peddrew-Yates Hall. The purpose of hosting these student engagement hours in (the lounge of) a dorm is to make them more accessible to students on campus. The lounge area will be accessible to all Virginia Tech students when student engagement hours are ongoing.

This semester, the Math Department plans to offer the following student engagement hours:

  • MATH 1226 (Calculus of a Single Variable) - Thursdays from 3:15pm-4:45pm
  • MATH 2114 (Linear Algebra) - Tuesdays from 2pm-3pm
  • MATH 1524 (Business Calculus) - Tuesdays from 4pm-6pm
  • MATH 1014 (Precalculus) - Thursdays from 9am-12pm

All students enrolled in the advertised courses are welcome to attend these student engagement hours.

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Peddrew-Yates_Student_Engagement_Hours.pdf

Students from the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech will offer FREE tutoring for members of the community. 

Paid Tutor for the VT Math Tutoring Lab

Students can receive help in any 1000 or 2000 level Math course at Virginia Tech.  Tutoring will be in person and some courses will have online tutoring available.  Tutors may be required to work in person AND online. Position wages begin at $16 per hour and tutors typically work around 10 hours a week.

 

Private Tutor

Tutoring requests range from middle school math to 4000-level math courses and, generally, several requests are made per week.  There is no obligation to take any jobs.  However, if you decide to take a job, all arrangements (including rate charged) are up to the individuals involved.


Please keep in mind the following ethical boundaries when considering a tutoring request:

  • If you are a grader for a course, you cannot tutor a student enrolled in the specific section(s) for which you are a grader.  However, you can tutor a student enrolled in a different section.
  • If you are teaching a course, you cannot offer tutoring for the course (this includes any section).

If you are a Virginia Tech student interested in becoming a private tutor for other Virginia Tech students enrolled in Math courses, please follow these instructions:

  • Log into your VT Google account 
  • Click on the Google Apps icon (icon that looks like 9 boxes, in upper right of screen)
  • Search for math_tutors and select the 'Private math tutors at Virginia Tech' group
  • Click 'Join Group'