I started teaching nearly 30 years ago and still have a deep passion for helping students. There is nothing better that watching students grow as mathematical and scientific thinkersI have taught at the middle school, high school, and college levels and enjoyed all of them immensely. I have also r... (read more)
...I have taught precalculus (with and without trigonometry) at the college level as well as tutored many students. I am able to help students both learn and understand the material with particular emphasis on common mistakes and going through examples. I am a current math PhD candidate who has taken 5 courses in discrete mathematics including graph theory and combinatorics. (read more)
...I completed a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from UC Santa Cruz. My students love me! I've received a Caltech student teaching award and a National Cottrell Scholarship for teaching innovation. (read more)
...If you intend to move on from trigonometry to precalculus or even calculus, I can continue tutoring you as you continue learning higher levels of math. As an engineer it is natural to use tools such as MATLAB to solve numerical problems. I use it daily when tutoring for quick calculations of anything from simple number crunching to matrices/linear algebra solutions. (read more)
I can help you succeed in Math and Science, both in terms of "getting the answer" and more importantly understanding fundamentals. My approach depends on the needs of the student, but I always stress problem solving and repetition, with fundamentals and theory becoming clearer with practice and teaching. I call this method guided problem solving. (read more)