The class kept moving.
Your kid can still catch it.
Tutoring in Columbia MD is one on one every week, one tutor and one student working the single class that’s costing the grade. Lily matches your student to a tutor who knows that exact course, then the first sessions go looking for where the understanding stopped, which is rarely the unit on this week’s test.
In person across Howard County with Aden N., or online anywhere in Columbia, MD.
James Rouse laid Columbia, Maryland out as ten villages in the 1960s, and school assignments still follow those lines, so two families a mile apart can sit on different math tracks. Tell us your village and the class and we’ll say plainly whether an in person seat is open or whether online starts sooner. We help students in all ten.
Outside Columbia proper? A few minutes north the work is the same, so see Ellicott City tutoring or take the whole subject list on the one on one tutoring in Maryland page.
Columbia MD parents call us in two windows, and they are the same two windows every year. The first is sixth or seventh grade, when a middle school student meets variables and a B slides to a C without anybody studying less. The second is eleventh, when precalculus and the SAT arrive in the same month.
Both of those are gap problems, including the jump from elementary school arithmetic into pre-algebra. Homework help alone gets a student through Friday and leaves the hole exactly where it was, so a math tutor here spends the first one on one tutoring sessions watching the problem solving break down and reading how your kid learns. The plan then gets built to fit that learning style.
Clemens Crossing Elementary School, Phelps Luck Elementary School and Jeffers Hill Elementary School all sit inside the Howard County Public School System. Elementary school math is by inquiry only. Most of those calls come from a family who wants arithmetic steady before pre-algebra arrives.
Harper’s Choice Middle School, Wilde Lake Middle School, Oakland Mills Middle School, Lake Elkhorn Middle School. Pre-algebra, fractions and ratios, the first real algebra course, and the study skills a middle school schedule suddenly demands.
Wilde Lake, Oakland Mills, Long Reach, Atholton High School and Hammond, then Howard Community College on Little Patuxent Parkway. Algebra II through AP Calculus AB and BC, AP Statistics, IB Math, digital SAT test prep, College Algebra and Introductory Statistics.
Name the course, the school your student attends in Columbia, and what you’ve already tried. Lily reads every intake herself and picks the tutor, so the more you write the better the match.
If you’d rather talk it through, contact us on the number above and bring the questions you haven’t found answers to yet.
Aden N. is the tutor who covers Howard County in person. She holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from UMD College Park, has more than seven years of tutoring behind her, and takes math, physics and writing. She has tutored at Howard Community College and at College Park, so the courses Columbia students bring her are ones she has already sat beside somebody through.
Sarah M. covers northeastern Howard County and works in person only, which puts her nearer the Ellicott City end of the county than most Columbia villages. Everyone else on the roster, Lily included, meets Columbia students online. Lily’s own in person area is northern Baltimore County, so booking her for SAT or statistics means that hour happens over Zoom.
Every tutor’s subjects and background sit on the tutors in Maryland page, and Maryland math tutoring covers the math ladder in full. Both pages name the tutors who help students here in Howard County, and the same roster covers Ellicott City.
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"Rose, from Lily’s Tutoring Services, did a great job helping our son pass a math class required for a University of Maryland College Park Limited Enrollment Program. He needed a certain grade and working with Rose over four sessions got him there. He’s clear that he would not have made it without the extra instruction. Rose was flexible, responsive, friendly and effective."
"Lily has been tutoring my 8th grade son in Algebra and it’s made a big difference. He says she explains concepts very clearly. He understands more in 30 minutes with Lily than an hour of class. Lily has been very patient with him. Excellent tutor."
"Lily is a wonderful tutor! She worked expertly with our 6-year-old both on Zoom and in person. Our child looked forward to her sessions with Lily and we often found her practicing what she was learning with her on her own. Lily has a real knack for getting information to stick and was so encouraging of our daughter in each session. We highly recommend her!"
Columbia MD parents ask about price first, so here are the real bands. Each tutor carries their own rate inside them, and you hear yours on the free consult call before anything gets scheduled. Contact us with the course name and we’ll quote it, whether that is a weekly math tutor or a block of tutoring sessions before finals.
Pre-algebra, Algebra I and II, geometry, trigonometry, precalculus.
AP Calculus AB and BC, AP Precalculus, honors and AP Statistics, college calculus and differential equations.
Middle and high school writing. College, graduate and professional writing starts at $100.
After the consult you book straight onto your tutor’s calendar. A deposit holds the slot and pays the tutor for the time they set aside, and the rest is invoiced after the session. Cancel or reschedule with 8 or more hours’ notice and the deposit comes back. Under 8 hours it’s forfeit, with one free mulligan. Card through Stripe is the default and Zelle is available on request.
Every tier, in one table, sits on the tutoring prices in Maryland page.
Question not here? Email info@lilystutoringservices.com, or see how one on one tutoring in Maryland works subject by subject.
A reasonable price for tutoring per hour around Columbia MD runs roughly $60 to $150, and where a tutor lands in that band tracks the level of the course more than anything else. Ours start at $75 an hour for middle school math through College Algebra and reach $145 for AP calculus and SAT work. You hear your exact number on the free consult call, before a session gets booked.
Two hours of tutoring is normally billed at twice the hourly rate, so at our $75 starting rate a two hour session comes to $150, and at the $145 AP and SAT rate it comes to $290. We book sessions at 1, 1.5 or 2 hours in 15 minute increments. If you’re asking because you tutor yourself, our own pay scale is published on the tutoring jobs page.
Sessions run 1, 1.5 or 2 hours in 15 minute increments, and the schedule stretches from three times a week down to once a month, so a Columbia family picks the frequency rather than buying a fixed package. Some students step up in the run-up to a midterm or an AP exam and drop back after. Lily will say on the consult call what the class in front of you actually needs.
Ask any tutor three questions: do they know your student’s exact course, will the same person show up every week, and what does the hour cost. Lily reads every intake herself, names your tutor and the courses they cover before session one, and re-matches when the fit is wrong. Those three answers tell you most of what you need before you hand over an hour, whether the person is a one on one math tutor or a writing tutor.
Aden N. is the tutor who covers Howard County in person, so in person tutoring in Columbia runs through her and depends on her schedule and where you sit in the county. Sarah M. covers northeastern Howard County and works in person only. Every other tutor meets Columbia students online over Zoom, which reaches every village.
Columbia students come to us from across the Howard County Public School System: Harper’s Choice Middle School, Wilde Lake Middle School and Oakland Mills Middle School on the middle school side, then Wilde Lake, Oakland Mills, Long Reach, Atholton and Hammond on the high school side. We hold no formal relationship with any school. We help students from all of them, and we work with whatever curriculum your student’s teacher is running.
Elementary school math is available by request, so a family near Clemens Crossing Elementary School or Phelps Luck Elementary School can contact us and we’ll tell you honestly whether the right tutor has a slot. Sixth grade is where the bulk of our work starts, so an elementary school booking gets matched one family at a time.
Howard Community College sits on Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia, and College Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus I and II and Introductory Statistics are all on our list. Aden N. has tutored at Howard Community College herself. College writing is covered too, starting at $100 an hour.
Most families have a first appointment within 7 to 10 days of the consult call, subject to tutor availability. When a Columbia MD midterm lands sooner than that, contact us and say so on the call, and we’ll tell you straight whether the schedule can move.
High school students in Columbia come to us for math from Algebra I through AP Calculus AB and BC, AP Precalculus, honors and AP Statistics, IB Math, digital SAT test prep, high school physics, and writing. We don’t offer the ACT, AP Physics or AP English, and we’d rather say so up front.
Academic support runs alongside the math or the essay in every session, so tutors work on how to study while they cover the content. When organization and follow-through are the real problem, our Hacking Your Potential executive functioning track handles planning, time management and self-advocacy for older teens and adults. Ask on the consult and we’ll say which one would help your child most.
Online tutoring suits Columbia students well, especially in math, because a shared whiteboard keeps every step of the working visible to both people at once. Going online also opens the whole roster to you, in place of the one or two tutors who can physically reach your village on a Tuesday. Tell us the village on the consult call and Lily will say which of the two she would pick.
One free call, a straight recommendation, and your rate before anything is booked. We help students from sixth grade through Howard Community College.
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