“From that one video, I went from 50 followers to literally 100,000, because people were saying they needed it,” she said. Figuring some of her incoming students shared her difficulties with remote learning, she made a TikTok video with a simple message: follow me for algebra refreshers. Phillips became an algebra and statistics teacher at Chelsea High School in Massachusetts just a few months later. “Even if we were still going to classes, we weren’t really going to school.” “School pretty much ended,” Phillips said. She’s never forgotten how it felt to abruptly switch to remote learning, which brought on new challenges and mental stresses just weeks before she was set to graduate. Phillips completed her Harvard degree from home, as campuses closed across the nation in the early months of the pandemic. “It’s very cool there’s a world out there where people just enjoy hearing someone talk about math.”
“When I created this, I didn't know what I was expecting,” she said. With her combination of knowledge, enthusiasm, humor and relatability, Phillips has carved out a niche for herself in the world of social media content. Her audience has grown to nearly 100,000 followers and view counts for her vignettes now routinely hit five digits, and occasionally even hit six. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). ‘20, has been producing TikTok videos ever since finishing her degree in applied mathematics at the Harvard John A. A funny montage of math-centric childhood pictures, set to a snippet from “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus. A quick lesson on interpreting derivatives in calculus. Olivia Phillips began creating math videos for TikTok soon after graduating from SEAS in 2020.Īn introduction to solving algebraic inequalities.
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