921 ratings
Geometry nerd
Marcus W.
I make geometry visible before it gets symbolic.
Education
Morehouse College
B.S. in Mathematics, minor in Architecture
Hometown
Atlanta, Georgia
A note from Marcus
“A proof isn't something you memorize — it's a shape admitting what it was always going to do.”
Folding a square into a crane and reading a defender's angle on the break are the same move: find the one line, and the rest of the figure has no choice. Hand me a kid who swears they're "not a math person" and a stack of scrap paper, and inside a session they'll have built a proof with their own hands before they notice it was math.
Marcus’s story
Marcus pulled a 58 in 9th-grade Geometry at his school on the West End — he could recite the theorems cold but couldn't tell you why a single one was true. The man who fixed that ran the Sunday pickup runs at John A. White Park and taught him to fold paper: crease a square corner to corner, and the perpendicular bisector is just sitting there, no two-column proof required. Marcus started teaching origami at the rec center that summer and walked onto the Morehouse intramural squad at point guard the same year. He graduated in 2019 with a 3.7 and a thesis on the crease patterns behind rigid-origami structures — the kind NASA folds into solar arrays — and has tutored Geometry full-time since.
What students say
4.9 ★ · 921 ratings
“I had a 61 in Geometry and proofs were a foreign language to me. Marcus made me fold the triangle congruence cases out of index cards until I could feel why SSS and SAS work. I scored a 94 on the final and finished the class at 89.”
“My daughter froze the second she saw the word 'proof.' Marcus tied the angle work to the perspective grids she uses in her art class, and in a month she went from a 64 on circle theorems to a 96 on the next unit test. He also texts me one line after every session so I know what they covered.”
“I was retaking Geometry after failing the first time, so I rolled my eyes at the origami stuff. Folding the perpendicular bisector is honestly the only reason coordinate proofs clicked. I went from a 56 on the first quiz to a 101 with the bonus on the trig unit. He fixed my crossover dribble too.”