What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Functions Tutor position at Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company?
About The Job
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Advanced Functions tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.
Why Join Our Platform?
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.
The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Advanced Functions tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.
Why Join Our Platform?
- Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
- Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
- Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
- Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting required.
- Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
- 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.
- We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.
- Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of polynomial and rational function analysis, logarithmic and exponential functions, trigonometric functions and identities, function transformations, composition and inverses, rates of change, and introductory limit concepts. Ability to explain asymptotic behavior, end behavior, and average versus instantaneous rates of change while preparing students for calculus and university-level mathematics.
- Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at breaking down polynomial factoring and division, solving exponential and logarithmic equations, and verifying trigonometric identities. Guides students through analyzing graphs for symmetry, intervals of increase and decrease, and concavity. Emphasizes connecting algebraic representations with graphical behavior and relates advanced functions to growth models, periodic phenomena, and optimization scenarios.
- Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with advanced functions curricula including Ontario MHF4U and equivalent courses, and common challenges such as solving rational inequalities, graphing reciprocal functions, and applying logarithm laws. Adapts instruction using graphing software, real-world modeling activities, and cumulative review strategies to support students preparing for university-level calculus and STEM programs.
- Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, 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.
- 1-on-1 Online Tutoring - Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
- Instant Tutoring - Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.
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.
Salary : $18 - $40