About

Who I am

I’m Raphaël, based in Brittany. Master’s in maths, but the open-plan office wasn’t for me.

Since then, my life has organised itself around two things: teaching and being outside.

On the teaching side, I give private maths lessons at sixth-form and preparatory class level. The approach is straightforward: find what’s actually blocking the student, build exercises that target precisely that, and address their relationship with maths before anything else. A student who believes they’re “bad at maths” won’t learn much until that changes. I also write clean $\LaTeX$ documents for my students, because presentation matters.

On the outdoor side, I walked the Pyrenees solo on the HRP — 34 days, Atlantic to Mediterranean. I paraglide, sail, climb, and hike. And sometimes I dance at Breton folk festivals.

Maths tutoring

I work with students in their final years of school and in university preparatory classes, in person around Douarnenez. If you’re looking for a maths tutor: cours.rkan.org or cours@rkan.org.

Projects

A few tools I’ve built — see the projects page.

This site

A place to write about what I’m thinking about. Built with SvelteKit, content in Markdown, hosted on Vercel. Photos are mine, watercolour illustrations by Dall-E.

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