About

One on one math tutoring, built by someone who saw the gap.

Maker Math started with one student and a problem the founder could not ignore. It grew because that problem turned out to be everywhere.

The Founder

It started with Ben.

Parker Doerr started Maker Math while still a student at UNC Wilmington, with one tutoring client. Ben was bright, curious, and falling behind in math. The standard tools were not working for him. Worksheets, drill apps, foam blocks. Parker had seen this pattern before, in his own family.

Several of Parker's family members have dyslexia or dyscalculia. He had watched smart kids struggle with math their whole lives, not because they could not understand it, but because the way it was taught did not match the way they thought. The issue was never the kid. It was the tools.

So Parker built better ones. The first custom 3D printed manipulative was a triangle with three removable sides that snap together to form a straight line, proving on the desk in front of you that the angles add to 180 degrees. Ben got it. Then his other students got it. And Maker Math became a real thing.

Today the business runs in Camp Hill PA, Avon NC, and online nationwide, with multiple teachers and a growing library of custom 3D printed tools.

The Euler Connection

Math runs in the family.

Parker's mother's maiden name is Euler. She is a descendant of Leonhard Euler, the 18th century Swiss mathematician who shaped how modern math is taught. Function notation, the symbol for pi as we use it today, the foundations of graph theory, much of the visual language of math. Euler's fingerprints are on the textbooks every algebra student opens.

Euler also went blind in the second half of his life. He kept working. Some of his most important contributions came after he lost his sight, produced through touch, memory, and mental clarity alone. He did not need to see the math to understand it.

That legacy quietly shapes Maker Math. The tools are built so that mathematical understanding never has to depend on sight or on a single way of thinking. Hands work. Memory works. The math is in the object, not just on the page.

How we work

Three things that make Maker Math different.

The method is built around the kid, not the curriculum. Every tool, every session, every choice flows from that.

One on one, every session.

No group sessions, no rotating tutors. Each kid works with their own teacher, twice a week, in person or online.

Tools built for the student.

When a kid is stuck on a concept, Parker designs a 3D printed manipulative for it. Sometimes within hours. Each tool is shaped by what that specific student needs to see and feel.

Trained for the way kids actually learn.

Every Maker Math teacher is trained in dyscalculia, dyslexia, and ADHD support. The strategies that work for a kid with dyscalculia work for many other kids too. Nobody is left behind because the method only works one way.

Ready to find out if Maker Math fits your kid?

Reach out and tell us about your kid. We will get back to you within two business days to talk through whether Maker Math is the right fit.

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