Milo Beckman

A graduate of Harvard (BA) and Columbia (MA), Milo has been tutoring professionally for nine years. His warm and conversational teaching style emphasizes building intuition and curiosity for the subject matter, helping students not just ace their tests but develop an interest in math and science that will motivate them to excel in high school, college, and beyond. Milo is deeply invested in his students, creating personalized curriculum, practice problems, and study sheets to suit individual needs. Milo's students have gone on to study at Princeton, Duke, Brown, and many other universities. A two-time captain of the New York City math team and author of Math Without Numbers (2021), Milo is a subject matter expert in math, physics, and chemistry, with experience teaching students from 3rd grade to graduate school. He has developed and taught custom courses for educational programs in China, Brazil, and four boroughs of New York. Previously, as a student at Stuyvesant High School, Milo traveled to compete in national math competitions, twice qualifying for the USA Math Olympiad, before graduating early to enroll in Harvard at age 15. He is currently enrolled as a PhD student at Columbia, where he specializes in the Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

Milo's specialty is helping students work through their STEM anxiety and find ease and even enjoyment in their math and science classes. His favorite teaching experience is watching students who initially identify as "math-phobes" or claim they "don't have a mind for numbers" gradually grow their confidence and move up to the top of their class. Milo believes a lot of what's wrong with STEM education in the US is the all-too-common "mean math teacher" who doesn't explain things clearly, makes his students feel dumb, and plays favorites with the one or two kids in the class who already learned the material elsewhere. Milo is passionate about counteracting that messaging, helping every student to feel intelligent and unlock their inner math genius.