Experienced tutor in Mathematics in Austin, Vivian offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

We are pleased to recommend our math tutor, Ms. Vivian Best. Ms. Vivian worked with my 10-year-old daughter, who skipped a grade and needed to catch up on 4th-grade math over the summer. Meeting just once or twice a week, Ms. Vivian helped her master the material, allowing her to thrive in 5th grade after coming directly from 3rd grade. Ms. Vivian is a kind, warm, and passionate teacher who excels at connecting with young children. She makes learning enjoyable by engaging students with math games and puzzles. Recognizing that every child learns differently, she also recommends valuable resources for parents to use at home. Furthermore, she gives wonderful book recommendations! Thanks to her positive energy and encouragement, both of my daughters now love math and look forward to their weekly lessons. We highly recommend her to anyone seeking a dedicated and effective tutor.

Ms. Vivian has tutored both of my children, and I can't recommend her highly enough. We started when my oldest child, who used to love math, started to find it tedious and dreading it. It would take an hour to finish one math worksheet. In our first session with Ms. Vivian, my oldest child finished homework in 7 minutes.

She's also wonderful with neurodivergent children. She understands each child's needs and adapts her approach to fit them, whether it's integrating math games, offering choice, or providing math movement breaks. Her sessions are a safe, encouraging place to ask questions and make mistakes. I've watched my kids go from dread to finding math easy and fun.

I saw how Ms. Vivian can support and appropriately challenge students so they can be confident in their skills, learn to love math, and even level up beyond their peers. I wanted my younger child to have that same experience with math. After our first session with Ms. Vivian, my younger child said to me "I love Ms. Vivian. When can we go back to her?"

Vivian has been an incredible math tutor for my 5th grader. My daughter has always done well in her other subjects, but math was the one area where classroom instruction just wasn't clicking for her. Vivian took the time to understand exactly how she learns math and taught to that, helping her genuinely grasp the concepts she'd been struggling with. Her grade improved as a natural result, and for the first time, she felt like someone truly understood how her mind works with numbers. I can't recommend Vivian enough for any family whose child needs a tutor who adapts to how they think, not a one size fits all approach.

Vivian is able to easily explain and have my daughter understand her math. She is so patient and encouraging!

Vivian is a great tutor and I totally recommend her. We are blessed to have found Vivian because I tried teaching my daughter math myself and almost every time we would get frustrated with each other. My daughter has dyslexia and dyscalculia and I was very impressed how with the patience, kindness, and compassion Vivian has shown my daughter. I have also seen my daughter's confidence grow. My advice, don't wait if you feel your child is struggling in math, my daughter gets in-classroom math support but it doesn't compare to one-on-one tutoring.

Vivian was so incredibly patient with my 3 high energy boys and she would tailor the way she tutored to how they needed to learn. She was full of fun math games and positive energy. My oldest son’s MAP testing in math significantly improved after her tutoring him all year. I highly recommend!

Vivian has been tutoring my 2E child (who does accelerated math) for almost 2 years now. She is so patient with my rather easily frustrated kiddo and they work together so well. My daughter also has a blast with the origami projects!

My kid loved learning with Vivian and was always excited to return! He learned new skills but also gained confidence and inspiration! Vivian clearly loves working with kids and encourages them on their learning journey.

She was so kind and supportive of my son. She really helped boost his confidence and improved his test scores. She’s amazing!

I cannot say enough wonderful things about Vivian and the incredible transformation she's brought to my daughter's relationship with math. When we first started working with Vivian, my daughter absolutely hated math and would melt down every time homework came out.

Vivian has completely turned things around by making math fun and engaging. She brings creative games and activities, and my daughter's favorite are the origami projects where they practice geometry concepts while folding shapes. As any parent of a chatty first-grader knows, keeping a 7-year-old focused is challenging, but Vivian has this amazing ability to keep my daughter on task while making learning enjoyable.

The results speak for themselves. My daughter no longer complains about math at school, and her confidence has soared! Her skills have improved dramatically, and her teacher has taken notice.

What I especially appreciate is how Vivian creates custom worksheets that perfectly complement what my daughter is learning in school and brings new math games weekly to keep sessions fresh and exciting. She keeps me informed with brief updates after each session, and she's always punctual and easy to communicate with.

If you're looking for a math tutor who can work miracles with young learners, look no further than Vivian. She's building confidence and making what used to be our biggest homework struggle into something my daughter genuinely enjoys!

Vivian is wonderful. We've been working with her for over a year and my son loves it. She is creative and makes learning exciting and fun. She has inspired a love of math and learning for our son - she is part of our village that is helping to raise him and we are so grateful for her!

Vivian is wonderful. We've been working with her for over a year and my son loves it. She is creative and makes learning exciting and fun. She has inspired a love of math and learning for our son - she is part of our village that is helping to raise him and we are so grateful for her!

Fun, positive, engaging, knowledgeable, knows multiple ways to teach the same thing in case the first method doesn't work. Treats math like a puzzle.

Positive, engaging, makes math fun, knows different approaches to teach when a kid doesn't understand

Vivian not only helped my daughter who was struggling in math improve her grades, she made math enjoyable by finding challenges that suited my daughter’s strengths.

Vivian is an angel! She was quickly able to connect with my 9year old son — it made him comfortable enough to really dive deep into the things we’re working on to improve his math. Also she makes their time together fun with origami and other fun math games.

Vivian is patient, kind, understanding and and non-judgmental. She does an excellent job of explaining concepts.

Vivian has an amazing ability to build quick and strong relationship with with my daughter. Vivian has helped develop Julie's confidence and excitement about math.
I have recommended her to others and highly recommend her to you.

Vivian is amazing at what she does- from listening, observing, and assessing what my child needs to discussing and problem solving with me! She has been a wonderful resource as we are figuring out how to help my 3rd grader improve on but mostly find a liking of math! Most importantly, Vivian has been able to boost my child's confidence and help her through the anxieties of learning "hard things." Another plus is that my kid adores her! She actually enjoys tutoring sessions and looks forward to learning new fun and quirky ways to do math! In short, Vivian made 3rd grade math fun and helped us learn the strategies to keep learning instead of getting stuck. Can't recommend her enough!