Meet Our Tutors: Chris

Chris Fountaine

Chris's love for math began when he took Algebra 1 and his curiosity led him to browse calculus books three years too soon. Feeling eager to know what foreign symbols meant, he took calculus, often tutoring it to small groups and friends. He received his MS degree in mathematics from Tufts University where he focused on the three major cornerstones of contemporary mathematics: analysis, abstract algebra, and geometry/topology. Before Tufts, he completed his undergraduate education at Saint Anselm College, graduating magna cum laude with an honors BA in mathematics and classical languages. In college, he was also formally admitted as a special student to MIT where he took advantage of challenging abstract math lectures and attended the linguistics colloquia through the department of philosophy and linguistics. Since 2014, he has been a private math and SAT tutor in the greater Boston area, tutoring all high school math levels or even multivariable calculus and linear algebra to high school students enrolled part-time at Harvard. When he's not tutoring, he's hiking, exercising, cooking new recipes, watching documentaries, or buying more plants he doesn't have room for.