Antonin - Maths tutor - Paris 16e
Antonin - Maths tutor - Paris 16e

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Antonin will be happy to arrange your first Maths lesson.

Antonin

One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Antonin will be happy to arrange your first Maths lesson.

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Antonin - Maths tutor - Paris 16e
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Oxford graduate, LSE award-winning teacher | MAT, STEP, TMUA & PAT preparation | University Maths, Econometrics & Physics

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  • Chemical Physics
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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Antonin will be happy to arrange your first Maths lesson.

About Antonin

My name is Antonin, and I offer the teaching I wish I had received as a student.
You may know me as The Maths Tailor, through my YouTube channel of the same name, where I host live maths sessions and post weekly videos on mathematics, methods, and educational guidance.

I have been tutoring for the last 12 years and supported hundreds of students, helping them get into the best unis or succeed at their university-level exams!

Since 2019, I teach econometrics at the London School of Economics (LSE).

I previously co-founded Studeo, an AI-based educational startup where we created hundreds of video lessons covering A-Level Maths and Further Maths content for students preparing for their exams.

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Brief Academic Background

A graduate of École Normale Supérieure in France, I completed my MPhil in Economics at Oxford University.
I've been passionate about teaching and pedagogy throughout my career. I've been tutoring students since 2013.

I work with motivated secondary school students with ambitious goals, as well as university students - primarily at British universities, though also supporting students at French grandes écoles and international institutions.

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Detailed Experience
1) Secondary School Tutoring
A-Level & Further Maths:

Students from top international schools
A-Level Maths and Further Maths preparation
IB Mathematics (Analysis & Approaches HL, Applications & Interpretations)
International students at École Jeannine Manuel (Paris), various Swiss and Luxembourg institutions, French lycées abroad (London, Barcelona, Athens, Brussels)

Oxbridge Admissions:

Preparation for Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams: MAT (Mathematics Admissions Test), STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper), TMUA (Test of Mathematics for University Admission), PAT (Physics Aptitude Test)
Starting from Year 12 (I recommend beginning preparation in February)
Russell Group university applications support

US University Applications:

SAT preparation for Ivy League and top US universities
International Baccalaureate (IB) preparation


2) University Tutoring
I support students across various profiles:
Undergraduate Mathematics & Physics:

First to third year university students
Core modules: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Differential Equations, Mechanics, Electromagnetism
Students from Russell Group universities (UCL, Imperial College, King's College, Birmingham, etc.)

Econometrics & Statistics:

Undergraduate and Master's level
Exam revision and preparation
Support for students retaking exams after initial attempts
My expertise comes from teaching these subjects at LSE and Sciences Po Paris

Exam Resits & Recovery:

I've worked extensively with students who need to retake university exams
Targeted revision focusing on past papers and examiner expectations
Building confidence and addressing gaps in understanding

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About the lesson

  • SHS 1
  • SHS 2
  • SHS 3
  • +3
  • levels :

    SHS 1

    SHS 2

    SHS 3

    Adult Education

    University education

    BTS

  • English

All languages in which the lesson is available :

English

Go to part III) below and find the subsection adapted to your needs!


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I) What I Offer - Core Subjects:

- Oxbridge Entrance Exams: MAT, STEP, TMUA, PAT
- Econometrics & Statistics (Undergraduate & Master's): From foundations to advanced inference
- A-Level & Further Maths (Years 12-13)
- University Mathematics (Years 1-3): Analysis, Algebra, Differential Equations
- University Physics (Years 1-2): Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics

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II) My Teaching Philosophy

Whatever your profile, I commit to three principles:

a) Clarifying what you've learned in class

Understanding how you think to explain better, and encouraging your independence based on your own thought processes.
Against judgement and self-deprecation (common when facing mathematics), I impose two tasks on myself:
First, convincing you there's no shame with me - every question deserves to be heard. I won't judge you for not grasping a concept; that would be terrible teaching behaviour.
Second, I'll present one or several ways of seeing things, understanding your way of conceptualising and thinking, to ultimately achieve my goal: unblocking you.
If it doesn't click immediately, I consider it my job to find the right approach. So far, we've always found it!

A reflection on the virtue of errors:
From experience, I can assure you that the opposite of 'making mistakes' isn't 'being good at maths' but rather 'blank page syndrome and anxiety'.
Against the fear of errors, I affirm they're always welcome (I still make them myself!). By learning to make mistakes, you overcome your fear of the blank page. You'll surpass the mental block that handicapped me whenever a solution didn't appear 'naturally' within seconds when I was a student.
Often self-censorship leads to not even trying, from shame that your rough work might be seen and judged.
I believe that by being proactive in exploring thought pathways, by making mistakes, you'll learn to know yourself better - especially your own way of approaching logic.
I therefore encourage any reflection 'in your own style' that helps you better understand a problem, as this actually becomes my foundation for explaining what you might have missed and how reasoning unfolds.


b) Teaching new concepts: Intuition first, then rigour

Each session, I try to ensure my student doesn't waste time doing things that can be done without me.
I don't do homework supervision. Passionate about pedagogy, the humanistic idea of putting the individual at the centre, taking time to understand them - thereby building legitimacy to teach them something - is fundamental to my approach. I then adapt demands and exercise pace according to each person's abilities.
Whatever your level, I'll always try to help you push your horizons.
What I want to avoid:
Being presented with a perfect demonstration in class to learn as-is ("by introducing this intermediate function, it works!") without unpacking the reasoning and steps that led to its construction. Sure, it works. But I remember wondering "how could I have thought of that?"
Yet it's often very simple to make accessible the reasoning that led to a demonstration by explaining the intuitions and trial-and-error on which its construction is based.
What I propose: Revealing underlying steps, making logic obvious
To avoid that feeling of helplessness facing certain statements, I like to introduce concepts by explaining their practical interest (almost a cardinal sin in maths classes!), their applications in economics or physics. What makes them interesting, why we need them.
I generally present explanations in two stages:

An 'intuitive' presentation - without mathematical rigour that can sometimes confuse more than clarify. Unashamedly using drawings and everyday language, I base my explanation on what I've understood about how you function.
Then introducing mathematical rigour - I have you 'translate' the intuition into mathematical language. This step is crucial. It's worth as much or more than the intuition. But I'm convinced that presented visually first, it passes much better.

The main virtue of formalisation: structuring your demonstration also structures your thinking.


c) Ongoing availability: I'm here 24/7

At school and university, my experience was this: I spent hours in the evening, stuck on a concept, a maths demonstration, a physics notion. Those hours lost being stuck are hours not spent on coursework, on accumulating exercises. For university students, accumulated over a year, these hours can cost you your desired grade or even passing the module.
What I offer outside lessons: Availability and unblocking, 24/7 (almost - sometimes I sleep! )
Ideal for you: having someone available by phone to unblock you in two minutes and explain with different words, a varying perspective. That someone is (hopefully) me!
This is why I now have a phone full of your questions, photos of your problem sheets, and various queries.
I respond within 24 hours maximum. It doesn't take me that much time day-to-day, so don't hesitate - I know how valuable such a service is for your confidence.


Important point: Family involvement

At your convenience, I remain available by phone for occasional progress reviews and answering your questions.
Also at your convenience, I can discuss various university strategies with you - particularly helping prepare potential applications to universities abroad post-A-Level, or Master's programmes after undergraduate study.
Experience has shown that, having been through many (exhausting) admission processes myself, I'm happy when the opportunity arises to share my experience if it can help clarify things.
I'll base my advice on the experience I have with the student and my assessment of their level. It's not much, but sometimes useful when information doesn't circulate easily in certain institutions and advice might be too generic.

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III) How lessons go

III) 1) A-Level Students / High School students

At A-Level, I work with different profiles, generally highly motivated:

- Students I'm reconciling with maths by taking time to understand their own mechanisms of reflection and mental blocks

How lessons go:
Concept clarification, eliminating confusion (30 minutes)
Course content + 'standard' exercises (1h30)


- For those already performing well, I focus on two types:

--> Preparing for Russell Group universities - particularly competitive courses at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, LSE
--> Preparing for Oxbridge entrance exams (MAT, STEP, TMUA, PAT) and US universities (SAT)

How lessons go:
Clarification (30 minutes)
Standard exercises, MCQ types (30 minutes)
More complex exercises, introduction to university-level mathematical thinking (1 hour)


SAT preparation for US universities:
Sessions from Year 12 onwards on specific programmes depending on whether you're targeting engineering or pure maths pathways

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III) 2) International Schools Students

A significant portion of my students come from international schools including École Jeannine Manuel (Paris), various Swiss and Luxembourg institutions, and French lycées abroad - London, Barcelona, Athens, Brussels.
My Oxford experience has allowed me to specialise since 2015 in supporting these students at different levels, whether preparing for the IB or entrance exams.
Each year I individually prepare motivated students for Cambridge/Oxford November exams, starting in Year 12 (I recommend beginning in February).

Concretely:
I prepare you by introducing the Anglo-Saxon mode of thinking - a very specific vision of approaching mathematics and science teaching, as well as evaluating students. This involves, for example, tackling A-Level content early. We then intensively revise using past papers.

My experience co-founding Studeo, where we created hundreds of A-Level Maths and Further Maths video lessons, has given me deep insight into the curriculum and common student difficulties at this level.

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III) 3) University students

The primary reason I'm contacted is usually methodological (feeling overwhelmed, swimming in the unknown, not knowing how to select what's important).
I work with all profiles: students aiming for good grades, those preparing for competitive Master's programmes, and students who need to retake exams.

How lessons work:
- First and Second Year:
The most important thing is not to get overwhelmed and to tackle work in an organised manner from the start.
Each session I unblock unclear concepts, redraw them, ensure you see more clearly.
The goal is to help you avoid getting lost. I support you in establishing your learning structure: completing each course section, each theorem with typical exercises to know by heart, which will eventually be your foundation for exams.

-Third Year / Resits:
The year is particular: we must clearly define your objectives and see how I can best support you.
Depending on your aims, we'll adapt the lessons. I offer 'normal course' type sessions where we unblock anything unclear and tackle exercises and past papers, and more 'tutorial' style sessions to deepen understanding for oral exams or presentations.

For these types of missions, I also apply a tailor-made pedagogy!


Phew! You've reached the end!
I'd be happy to get in touch with you. Don't hesitate to ask additional questions - communication is crucial for me, as you'll have understood!

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  • Depuis quand développez­-vous un intérêt pour les sciences et plus particulièrement pour les mathématiques ?

    Je pense honnêtement que cela date de l'école primaire.
    J'ai toujours eu un goût pour les mathématiques, la logique, ce monde pur où on s'amuse à découvrir des choses cachées en quelque sorte.
    Cela se rapprochait de l'amusement que je tirais des bouquins d'énigmes pour enfants.
    Pour les sciences, c'est venu un peu plus tard, surtout en terminale et en prépa quand vraiment on a commencé à confronter l'empirique à la théorie.
    J'ai apprécié les sciences d'autant plus que j'ai compris leur démarche, et curieusement ce sont en partie mes cours de philo de l'époque qui m'y ont beaucoup aidé.
  • Quel est le mathématicien, la formule ou le théorème ou qui vous vient en premier à l'esprit ? Que lui vaut cet attrait... ou ce rejet ?

    Pythagore, évidemment.
    Surtout car il est vu et revu, mais toujours avec des surprises en plus:
    - au collège, version géométrie euclidienne;
    - au lycée, avec le produit scalaire et les débuts de la géométrie analytique;
    - en prépa, on le retrouve dans les espaces normés, généralisé dans des espaces de toute dimension.
    J'ai une certaine admiration pour Cantor également, qui est le premier à avoir essayé de vraiment quantifier l'infini.
  • Plutôt algèbre ou géométrie ? Dites nous-en davantage sur votre domaine de prédilection ?

    Les deux, et surtout quand ils se rejoignent - c'est là qu'on trouve le plus de beauté.
    Je n'oublierai jamais ma surprise quand en troisième mon prof de maths a utilisé le théorème de Thalès dans un exercice sur les coordonnées du plan.
    Pour moi, c'étaient deux mondes disjoints qu'il faisait se rencontrer pour avancer dans sa démonstration - simple mais renversant.
  • Vous pouvez maintenant nous rassurer et nous avouer que vous aussi, vous avez déjà galéré en maths...

    La plus grosse galère honnêtement c'est quand il a fallu arrêter d'être flou, et structurer mon esprit.
    En gros, j'étais 'bon en maths' jusqu'en seconde, où j'ai atteint ma limite: en première, ce n'était plus possible de juste y aller 'comme ça'.
    Il fallait que je passe du temps à suer sur mon cours.
    C'est à cette période que j'ai commencé à comprendre les différentes étapes de la maîtrise (je dirais 1- d'abord sentir qu'on comprend à peu près, 2- être capable de tout refaire sans ses notes et le stade ultime 3- pouvoir expliquer à quelqu'un avec des mots simples).
    C'était frustrant à l'époque de sentir mes limites, mais j'avais une espèce de rage de vaincre contre mon propre cerveau un peu paresseux, ce qui m'a toujours donné la motivation de l'effort !
  • Quelles sont, selon vous, les qualités requises pour être un bon "matheux" (en plus d'avoir une bosse sur la tête) ?

    Bien sûr c'est important la bosse des maths, le goût aux maths.
    Mais un goût, ça se découvre, surtout avec les bons enseignants (on n'oublie jamais un bon prof!).
    En fait, je pense que c'est surtout la capacité à structurer sa pensée, un raisonnement (d'où je pars, de quelles hypothèses, pour atteindre quel but?) qui compte.
    Il faut en gros apprendre d'un côté à suivre ses intuitions, sentir les choses, ne pas se brimer en termes de créativité, mais tout en maîtrisant par la suite la mise en œuvre rigoureuse des démonstrations.
    C'est un équilibre très instable : il faut réussir à ne pas fuir dans une « créativité » non structurée et chronophage, ni se perdre dans une rigueur étouffante qui empêcherait de prendre de nouveaux chemins.
  • Une anecdote à raconter en rapport avec votre métier ou votre scolarité (et pas forcément liée à une soirée organisée par votre école d'ingénieurs) ?

    Le stress ressenti lors du premier cours que j'ai fait dans le supérieur, face à une classe !
    On sait qu'à un moment un étudiant va poser une question à laquelle on ne saura pas répondre, et c'est l'angoisse totale !
    J'avais juste 23 ans, je me suis retrouvé face à des normaliens qui en avaient 21 et étaient prêts à chercher la petite bête en cours de stats.
    J'ai découvert la technique du ''très bonne question, là je dois finir le td, donc envoie-moi un mail pour que je te réponde de manière complète''.
    Ce qui m'a coûté ensuite une nuit de recherche sur des détails techniques de code informatique pour lui répondre dans les 24h - technique de prof efficace à court terme mais dont j'ai vite compris les limites !
  • Que répondriez-vous à un élève qui dirait que "les maths, ça sert à rien" ?

    La meilleure approche est de lier les mathématiques à ses intérêts.
    S'il a un goût pour la science, les expériences, j'irais dans le sens de la nécessité de l'outil mathématique pour analyser le monde !
    S'il est branché économie, j'insisterais sur la maîtrise de l'outil statistique pour défendre tout argumentaire en sciences sociales.
    Une réponse plus générale le cas échéant serait de lui montrer que les mathématiques forment un esprit polyvalent, capable de raisonner et de penser de manière critique.
    Un petit peu plus pragmatiquement (pour un élève lycéen), je lui dirais que maîtriser les maths c'est également une manière de maîtriser son avenir, en ayant les plus larges horizons d'orientation, à l'étranger autant qu'en France.
  • Quelle est la bonne équation à trouver pour être un Superprof de maths ?

    En une phrase : réussir à trouver l'équilibre entre l'humain et la rigueur.
    - D'un côté, écouter, comprendre la manière de penser de l'élève, ne pas imposer une solution comme si elle tombait de nulle part. Un but important pour moi est de réussir à rendre simple une notion en la dessinant, en aidant à la visualiser, en s'adaptant à la manière de penser de chacun.
    - De l’autre, réussir à transmettre une pratique de la pensée structurée : plutôt que d'asséner que 'la rigueur, c'est tout', montrer par l'exemple la vertu de l'organisation de la pensée, de la page, pour aboutir à quelque chose.
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