Where It Began
A First-Class degree,
and a decade of teaching since.
I'm Ed. I hold a First-Class degree in Mathematics from the University of Exeter - the foundation of everything I've done since. But the credential I'm most proud of isn't academic. It's the decade I spent inside two of England's independent boarding schools, understanding from the inside what genuine mathematical education looks like at the highest level.
1st Class
BSc Mathematics
Univ. of Exeter
Teacher
Blundell's School
Devon
Teacher & Assistant Housemaster
Cranleigh School
Surrey
Now
Ed's Maths
Founder & Mentor
The Teaching Years
Inside two of
England's independent schools.
My teaching career took me to Blundell's School in Devon and Cranleigh School in Surrey. At Cranleigh, my role extended well beyond the classroom. As Assistant Housemaster, I carried pastoral responsibility for students in my house: understanding their pressures, their confidence levels, and what they needed to thrive - not just academically, but personally.
That combination of academic rigour and genuine pastoral care is rare. It gave me a depth of understanding of what ambitious students need that most tutors simply don't have. I know the culture, the expectations, the exam boards - and above all - the students themselves.
"Maths isn't a subject you either get or you don't. It's a subject that clicks when it's taught the right way. I've never met a student who couldn't make real progress with the right support."
- EdI also play hockey
semi-professionally.
Alongside teaching, I've played semi-professional hockey for Old Georgians for a number of years. Competing at that level week in, week out has taught me a great deal about discipline, preparation and what genuine high performance actually looks like from the inside - and I bring that into every session I deliver.
Being a father to three young children keeps me equally grounded in what patience and encouragement actually look like day to day. The combination of those two worlds - competitive sport and early parenthood - shapes everything about how I work with students.
Why Ed's Maths Exists
What the classroom
couldn't give me.
The classroom has a built-in constraint: one teacher, many students. The child quietly struggling doesn't always get the question answered. The student who almost understands something doesn't get the extra ten minutes to actually get there.
I founded Ed's Maths to remove that constraint. On the call, we get a flavour for how your child's getting on with maths at the moment, where things feel comfortable, and where the gaps are starting to show. From there we figure out how best to build the fuller picture: sometimes that's a short test, sometimes it happens naturally in the first session, sometimes it's simply reviewing a recent past paper, whatever fits best for your child. Once we know where the gaps are, we build a real plan around them. Nothing sticks after just one pass, so we keep revisiting earlier content alongside anything new, so it's genuinely learned, not just covered. That same commitment runs through every session I deliver.
I keep the number of families I personally teach deliberately small each term, so every programme gets my full attention. Where my own diary is full, I introduce families to tutors from my own team. Every tutor in my network is personally vetted by me, and works from the same proven methods I use myself. Whether I'm teaching your child directly or one of my tutors is, I stay closely involved throughout.
