IB Mathematics · Based in Milan · Online, one-to-one · AA & AI, SL & HL
An IB Math tutor for Milan families — who already knows your child's school system.
Renzo Diaz is an IB Mathematics tutor based in Milan, teaching one-to-one online across all four courses — Analysis and Approaches and Applications and Interpretation, Standard and Higher Level. His documented Milan cases are named students' public Google reviews, each linked to its original. Application-only, with a publicly documented Grade 3 to Grade 7 in IB Math AI SL.
Milan international schools run on their own rhythm: iSAMS notifications, specific progress-comment formats, DP1 subject-choice windows that lock in during Year 11. Most of that context is invisible from outside the system, and most tutoring never accounts for it. My documented cases are real Milan students, each linked to its source.
When a school report arrives, I know what it measures, what it omits, and what to do about it before the next parent meeting — not after it. That comes from years of working directly with Milan school systems, not from being nearby.
The unexplained Grade 4: the report card says it, nobody can say why.
School systems like iSAMS record outcomes, not causes: a grade, a comment, sometimes a commendation — rarely the reason underneath. Before any plan is built, I diagnose the exact step where the reasoning broke, whether that step lives in this term's topic or three years back in algebra. That diagnosis, not the report card, is what the weekly work runs on.
DP1 subject choice: decided in Year 11, with half the information.
Milan international schools ask families to lock AA or AI, SL or HL while the student has never seen an IB paper. The choice shapes university options, and it is expensive to reverse mid-Diploma. I walk families through both courses with real exam questions before the school deadline — including what each university faculty actually requires.
Mid-Diploma transfer: arrived from another curriculum, partway through.
Milan absorbs a lot of relocating families, and a student arriving from Singapore, Dubai or a US high school inherits the IB clock mid-cycle with gaps shaped by a different syllabus. The first month is structural triage: find where the previous curriculum left holes, rebuild those, and align to the Milan school's assessment calendar from the next mock onwards.
Liceo-to-IB transition: your child comes from the Italian system.
The passage from liceo mathematics to IB is wider than most families expect: different notation habits, a calculator policy (AI allows the GDC everywhere; AA Paper 1 bans it), and a marking culture that pays for method as much as answers. Students coming up from the Italian system are usually stronger than their first IB grades suggest — the gap is translation, not ability, and it closes fast once named.
Coverage
All four IB Maths courses. Find the one your child is sitting.
AA and AI are different subjects wearing the same name, and SL and HL are different workloads again. Each has its own page with the situations, syllabus coverage and exam technique specific to it.
The method
A documented weekly system, familiar with the Milan school calendar.
Every week opens with last week's wrong answers, because wrong answers are the cheapest source of marks. We work on what is live from school, advance the syllabus in order, and plan around what Milan school calendars actually contain: mock weeks, IA deadlines, report cycles. Every session is recorded, summarised, and archived into a searchable library your child keeps for the entire Diploma.
Documented outcomes
The Milan cases, verifiable on Google.
Aline Pascarelli went from a Grade 3 to a Grade 7 in IB Math AI SL across a full two-year Diploma — delivered entirely online, which is the point: the method does not depend on geography, only on rhythm. Her review is on the results page, linked to its original on Google.
More Milan cases are on the results page — students who came up through the Italian system, moved between curricula, or worked across the IGCSE-to-IB step. Every one is a named student's public Google review you can open and read yourself.
I don't promise grades. What I offer is documented, checkable precedent — and the honest answer that your result depends on your starting point, the work between sessions, and the time available.
Milan cases, public on Google
“As a student who moved from a Level 3 in IB Maths AI SL at the beginning of my IB course to obtaining a Level 7 in my final exam papers, I would highly recommend Renzo as a Private Tutor. Renzo helped me overcome and understand the difficulties and challenges I encountered over the 2 year program. I am confident I would not have been able to obtain this grade without his help!”
“Renzo helped me enormously during my final year in improving at maths. I started from a low level and thanks to him I managed to reach all my objectives. The huge improvements I made in a single year are all down to his organisation and patience. Today I'm happy with the progress I've made and the level I've reached.”
“Renzo tutored me in ib maths and he always found creative and simple ways to explain the concepts. To use him to the max i recommend doing practice papers and working with him on those you got wrong but he can also do lessons where he explains the concepts and you do the questions in the lesson. He was able to teach me concepts on the spot without me having to tell him before the lesson which was very useful. Also just has a genuine and positive attitude which always helps!”
“I've had the privilege of working with Renzo as my math tutor for the past four years, and I can confidently say he's been instrumental in helping me achieve my academic goals. From the very beginning, Renzo has consistently shown dedication, patience, and professionalism. What sets Renzo apart is his incredible availability and organization. No matter how busy things got—whether it was during exam season or while preparing for important assessments—he always made time to help. He was never late, always prepared, and quick to respond whenever I had a question or needed to adjust a session.”
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Two free conversations come before anyone commits to anything. If I don't think the system will move your child meaningfully, I will tell you directly — I'd rather lose a client than take on a case I can't help.