Meet our Team

Being a master tutor, Dan has a Master’s degree in Secondary Math Education from the University of Colorado Denver (2018) as well as a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado (2020).

Dan has been tutoring since 2011, when he began teaching as a collegiate math instructor at Red Rocks Community College. He taught in public, charter, and alternative middle and high schools before teaching full-time at Aims Community College—where he is now.

He can solve the Rubik’s Cube in less than two minutes and hopes to find more opportunities to play the guitar when he is not spending time with his wife and four children.

Dan believes all students can learn math and with consistent one-on-one support will become more fluent and confident in the subject. With the right combination of a positive attitude, a balance of fun and rigor, and consistent effort, this is possible!

Math Nuts Tutors was founded by Sarah Hepting. Sarah brings the wisdom and grace necessary for our success and leads the tutoring efforts.

Sarah has extensive experience tutoring math over the years, having owned a Math tutoring agency in Northern California. Her college degree is in Mathematics. More recently Sarah taught math classes at Red Rocks Community College, along with tutoring in their Math Lab 2008-2019. She successfully connects with students’ math questions and they finally understand. Let’s not worry about the way you’re doing math wrong! Let’s just keep it simple by showing and teaching a method that produces correct answers. Demonstrate that!

Having recently purchased electric bicycles, Sarah and her husband are planning to ride in Zion National Park, as well as locally. So much fun and exercise to be had! Sarah is a true math geek, and will say so too. Just ask her!

Cynthie earned her math degree from Virginia Tech. Over the years she has reviewed classes to keep her skills sharp. She tutored at Red Rocks Community College for over 16 years, and also taught there for some of those years. In addition, Cynthie has worked in math-textbook editing with some major textbook companies.

Having tutored over 30 years privately as well as tutoring at Red Rocks, her ability to teach math and relate to students is unsurpassed!

Her family is a priority and Cynthie enjoys their time spent together! Playing games and traveling are a hit with her!

Making a strong effort to understand each student’s strengths and weaknesses, is core to her teaching philosophy.  She is a great tutor!

Tamara has been tutoring and teaching at Red Rocks Community College since 2003. Along with many years of in-service training, acquiring level 3 tutor status, she graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelors of Science. Tamara’s 20 years working with hundreds of students, are evident in amazing learning success with all!

Tamara naturally endeavors to find exactly where the student “is”, and teach forward from there. And with her expertise and experience, ANY student is capable.

Loving the out of doors and hiking, Tamara enjoys spending as much time as possible in the mountains of Western Slope & Front Range!

Jon earned his Bachelors in Civil Engineering Dec 2021. For two years before joining Math Nuts, he gained many hours experience tutoring for the Iowa State University Academic Success Center.

Loving lifting weights as well, Jon enjoys many outdoor activities in his free time for fun! He works during the weekdays as a Civil Engineer. Nice!

And Jon knows that any student can be great at math with the right tutor, who understands the unique struggles. He strongly believes practice makes perfect!

Being a Colorado native, Demetria found a love for tutoring in high school with Whiz Kid Tutoring. During this time, she was able to help elementary students with various subjects, and knew, from this experience, that she desired to continue tutoring throughout her life! In college, Demetria worked at the tutoring Center for CU Denver. Along with Math Nuts, she volunteers at the Life Center of Littleton, as a GED math instructor. 

Having completed her undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Accounting emphasis, at the University of Colorado Denver in 2016, Demetria pursued a CPA license. She completed her Master of Science in Accounting degree from Regis University in 2021.

Demetria enjoys playing recreational sports and listening to audio books. The library is one of her favorite places to visit on the weekends!! 

Her key philosophy of learning is foundational to Demetria’s tutoring: Anyone can become skilled with challenging subjects if given the right tools. Her enjoyment is helping people succeed with their most difficult educational goals!

Mark is proficient in calculus 1, calculus 2, calculus 3, linear algebra and differential equations. He has been tutoring for 4 years, 3 years out of Red Rocks Community College, and 1 year with Math Nuts. Loving rock climbing and 3-D printing, Mark recently completed a software engineering boot camp. His philosophy is be kind always, compassionate, and lead the student with questions instead of just giving answers. Nice!