I’m Cody Tamaye
A quantitative economist who teaches SAT Math to Greater Austin students who are better than their scores
I have a master's in Quantitative Economics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in mathematics from Oregon State. Before tutoring full-time, I used this math professionally: building statistical models for a major infrastructure project and co-authoring World Bank research on educational outcomes.
I've taught for more than five years and worked with 130+ students, from Kumon to econometrics at Cal Poly. That range taught me something useful. The students who frustrate their parents most usually aren't missing the math. They're missing a reliable way to use it under pressure.
I teach with the Feynman technique, named for the physicist Richard Feynman, who argued that if you can't explain something simply, you don't really understand it. We stay on a topic until your child can explain it clearly enough that a younger student could follow. That's the kind of understanding that holds up when a familiar idea shows up in an unfamiliar form on test day.
I'm also building the diagnostic tools I use with students, because I'd rather measure where a student loses points than guess.
How I work
I follow four steps in this order.
Diagnose
A diagnostic, then a 90-minute audit of every miss, sorted by cause.
Plan
A test date and a 12-week plan aimed at the two or three causes costing the most points.
Train
Weekly one-on-one sessions, practice sets in between, and a snapshot to you every week.
Check
Two re-diagnostics before test day, so we know the pattern is changing instead of hoping it is.
See whether the program fits
Winter enrollment opens November 1, 2026 for the March 6, 2027 SAT, with 5 seats