YourTeacher.com - Your Personal Math Teacher Inside Every Lesson

Our Story

In the late 1990's, Mike Maggart was a high school math teacher at one of the top private schools in the U.S.  Like many math teachers, he worked in the evenings as a private tutor.

As he traveled from house to house, Mr. Maggart was frustrated by the inefficiency and exclusiveness of private tutoring – he could only reach a few students each night, and only the wealthiest students could afford it.

Through this experience, Mr. Maggart recognized the need for a completely new way of delivering math tutoring that was both scalable and affordable, and the idea for YourTeacher.com was born.

Enlisting the expertise of a multimedia developer, Michael Shappell, Mr. Maggart initially created a series of Algebra 1 lessons on CD-ROM, which he piloted with his own students.  The first day the program was available, he left 15 CD’s in the library for the students to check out, and they were gone within minutes.  The next day he left 30, the next 50, and so on. 

Encouraged by the response from his students, he began development on a complete Algebra 1 course, and in January of 2000, Mr. Maggart and a business partner, Charles Hermes, founded YourTeacher.com.

Today, YourTeacher.com offers over 1000 online math lessons covering Middle and High School Math, Community College and College Math, and Standardized Test Preparation, and serves hundreds of thousands of students around the world.

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