...I have tutored students in Trigonometry, very often as part of a course in Precalculus. I have also taught trigonometry classes at City College of San Francisco and Embry-Riddle University (Oakland). I have taught statistics courses at Tula State University, City College of San Francisco, and Em... (read more)
...The first, at Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences, was problem solving-based, covering a variety of topics in combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory. The second, Mathematics 152 at Harvard, was a rigorous proof-based course that linked topics in discrete mathematics to group ... (read more)
...It is the subject that I tutor most often and am strongest in. I have also designed and taught calculus review courses for top colleges in the Boston area. My most recent AP student had a very weak grasp of the material just a couple months before the AP exam, but after working with me was able to score a 4 on the AB version of the exam. (read more)
...I've observed dramatic improvement in my students' comprehension and Spanish-speaking abilities. My knowledge and understanding of the language has been enhanced through travels to Latin America (El Salvador, Costa Rica, Mexico & Panama); I've also spent time in Peru and Spain as well. These ex... (read more)
...Sometimes this means allowing you to do things in a nonstandard way, if that's what you're comfortable with. There are usually various approaches to a problem, and I can teach them all. I know my methods work--I've been using them successfully for over a decade, primarily in one-on-one tutoring as a freelancer. (read more)