The Harvey Mudd College Homework Hotline is a free over-the-phone math and science tutoring service for students in grades 4 through 12. We’re open five nights per week, Monday through Thursday, from 6 to 9 p.m. PST. We’ve always been a free service, and we always will be.
Our tutors are all students at Harvey Mudd College, one of the
top-ranked STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
schools in the nation, and they’re all selected for their technical
expertise AND their superior communication skills. They get extra
training to make sure they give you the best possible service!
A Homework Hotline tutor will assist the student caller with guiding
questions and encourage the student to be an active participant in
their learning. The tutor will use the student’s prior knowledge and
encourage the student to use all available resources first. The tutor
will also invite the student to write down procedural steps in their own
words to help the student solve similar problems on their own.
The goal of the tutor is to help the student caller with one homework
question, and then encourage the student to try solving similar
problems on their own. The student caller is invited to call the
Homework Hotline again if they get stuck on another problem (similar or
different to the current question).
Student privacy matters to us. We don’t ask for names or phone
numbers, though we do ask callers to share their school and grade level
for our reporting purposes. We are funded by the Simons Foundation and
Harvey Mudd College.
For a more effective call, please be prepared with the following:
- Homework assignment
- Textbook
- Paper
- Pencil/pen
- Calculator
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