...My love for geometry came about when my math teacher put me in a geometry competition and I found myself standing on a podium a year later with a blue ribbon for having gotten every question right all year. I loved drawing the world as shapes, angles and lines and went on to apply it to study mo... (read more)
...Rather than memorizing formulas and plugging and chugging, I prefer to help students understand the underlying concepts that they are working with in math so that they can solve problems on their own. Building up your toolbox of math skills is important, but equally important is understanding wh... (read more)
...In 2019, after moving to the U.S. to pursue my Master's degree, I continued my teaching career with the Russian School of Mathematics. There, I worked with middle and high school students, honing my techniques for managing a classroom and tailoring my approach to different students' learning sty... (read more)
...To that end, I’ll additionally often work with you on identifying and using resources that could help--be it your class notes, your textbook, or supplemental online resources--but I generally won’t re-teach the material from scratch or just provide answers. What we focus on in a given session th... (read more)
...I started programming in C++ as soon as it was introduced in 1998. I used it to support my work on solar flair simulations on a supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Now, I specialize in C++ 20 for embedded and high-performance applications. (read more)