Engaging in mathematics from a young age has many benefits that can contribute to making you a well-rounded adult. You might not realize it, but math affects your life every day, even if you are not in a career that is specifically math related. Every second of your life, math is going on all around you, so it is important that all students have a strong math education to understand what is going on around you.

A little about myself before getting into the reasons why a math education can change your life, I grew up in Seattle, Washington before going to the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, I have moved to LA, where I now work with students to help them reach their math goals. I have extensive experience working with students and have seen lots of ways that math has helped in student’s lives. I now work with students both in-person and as an online math tutor.

Having spent so much time with students, I have seen many areas where students improve. For example, one student had a really tough time with time management. He was not just showing up late for class, but running out of time on projects and missing deadlines. He had not worked with any math tutor in the past, so it was a perfect control.

After we worked together, he started budgeting time in advance, which changed everything for him. Working with new strategies, he was able to completely turn around not just his grades, but his way of life. He started feeling much less stress, since he was no longer rushing places or turning in half-complete work. Going forward, he and his brother both got math tutors that helped them take back control of their grades.

Another great way that math helps you is in your finances. Many people struggle to create a budget for themselves and quickly see their bills build up and their bank account depleting. When you are able to do math, you can see the cost-benefit analysis in your mind with every transaction. Without getting too stressed out over little things, you can make sure that you are prepared for the future and able to save money instead of bleeding your bank account dry.

At Stanford University, Dr. Tanya Evans found that skills in math also had physiological effects outside of just being able to ace all of your tests. Her study showed that children who know math are able to recruit certain brain regions more reliably and have greater grey matter volume in those regions than other children who perform poorly in math. The brain regions associated are those that are linked with visual attention and decision making, which shows that math skills are strongly correlated with success in those other tasks. Working with a Calculus tutor, for example, can make you a better student in all categories.

No matter what level of math you are currently studying, there is always a good reason to start working with math tutors to get better. You can benefit from all kinds of tutoring, even if you just need a little help with logic.