Making maths
engaging, clear, and real.

I believe education is the best gift we can give anyone. I came into teaching because of a kid called Scott. For a brief time he showed me — with brutal honesty — that I could make a difference to students who, like me, didn't understand maths. Who thought it was a foreign language.

Knowing what it's like to feel lost in the classroom, I vowed that no student I taught — or who watches these videos — would ever feel they couldn't do maths. I'd make it funny, engaging, real-life, and simpler than people think.

I love doing this. I love being humorous and a little wacky. I do everything I can to help students and parents feel they can achieve — and to know they aren't stupid.

When people ask what I do for a living, I say I'm a teacher. "Of what?" they ask. "Maths." Too often the reply is, "Oh — I couldn't do maths at school." I want to change that to, "Oh — I loved maths at school."

There is nothing worse than bat-shit boring tutorials. Some of the stuff on YouTube? It's like watching paint dry. By the end, I'm ready to delete the internet.

I've been described again and again as one of the most engaging teachers people have seen. I love theatre and performing, so I turn most maths into an amusing story. Stories are life — and what better way to learn maths than through stories that actually stick?