Contact Me

After you've read some of the details in my website and feel more confident that my teaching style, rates, and background may be a good fit for you, please call, text, or email me.  Also note that I hire other tutors who specialize in areas outside my expertise, so let me know if you need additional tutoring.

Cell: 773-603-3833. Please send an email if I don't pick up; Voicemails sometimes get buried and forgotten.  Text messages are also ok. As this is a personal line, I usually just say "Hello?" rather than "Josh Jones Math Tutoring".  Also, most tutoring companies have customer service representatives who are immediately available, but I cannot always answer your call immediately.  So don't be discouraged if I am not immediately available.

Email:  I check my email several times daily.  In order for me to better help you, please include in your email to me at jjonesmath@gmail.com:

--Your/the student's name and phone number (and whether it is home, cell, work, etc)

--Your/the student's education/work situation (availability, middle school/high school/college, occupation, etc.)

--Dates and times you are available to meet (Be broad, but list your preference.  Also, I give priority in scheduling to those with whom I meet more.)

--What range of hourly rates you are comfortable with (helps me determine what days and times to schedule you, or whether I should send one of my other tutors)

--Whether you will come to me or me to you, and if the latter, your address

--How you heard of my service

--How long you would like to meet for our first session

--Number of hours/meetings per week (consistency is most efficient, at least once weekly, as the tutoring work becomes undone if too much time passes)

--Any target dates I should be aware of

--Specific areas you need help with

--Information specific to you or your situation, such as prior grades in math classes and overall

--If prior tutoring was unsuccessful, please explain

If you seek academic tutoring (for school or college), I will also need to know:
--School/college name
--Course title
--Where you are in the course 
--Additional information on the class you have, such as:
   -syllabus
   -textbook(s) used (ISBN, or title, author, edition and publisher)
   -what sorts of homework and exams there are, etc.
   -information on the instructor
   -Whether I have permission to contact your/your child's instructor. If yes, please notify them that I will be contacting them, please provide me their contact info, and understand that we agree that I have said permission until you explicitly state otherwise.

If you are studying for the GMAT or GRE, I will also need to know:
--What book you are using (Title, author, edition, ISBN)
--How many years since you last dealt with math
--The last math course you took
--How much time you are able to allocate to studying (outside of meeting with me)
--The problem types with which you have the most difficulty


After we have determined the price, date, time, and location, call/text me the day before we are scheduled to meet to confirm.


Privacy policy:
I understand that private tutoring can at times, for certain people, become rather personal, so I want you to know you can rest assured that all interactions through my services are held in the strictest confidentiality.  I also understand that there may be some information that would be helpful to me but that you do not want to reveal.  If there are any questions I ask that you would rather not answer, just let me know.  Finally, I will never share or sell your information to any third party.  I hate spam.