...I think about these concepts every weekday as I work my classes through Algebra 2, and I am very familiar with what students need to know and how teachers write tests. I teach math at all high school and college levels. I have helped many students improve their practice test scores from the time they started working with me until the SAT test came. (read more)
...My major area was Physical Education and my minor area was Mathematics. I never taught one day of Physical education. I taught all levels of Algebra, some Geometry, Discrete math and elementary Probability and Statistics. (read more)
...If students don't understand the underlying mechanics, then how could they ever truly learn mathematics? I'm not a tutor who will just teach a process and call it a day, I want students to feel like they have control over their work. Overall, I want to increase a student's mathematical reasoning, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency to be worked upon in tutoring sessions. (read more)
...As Rita Pierson once said, "Kids don't learn from people they don't like."I taught HS Geometry for 1.5 years at the #1 public school in Indiana, where I was rated as a Highly Effective teacher. I have taken graduate-level geometry courses, as well. I have taken courses based in logic at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. (read more)
14 Subjects: includingGeometry,Algebra 1,Algebra 2,SAT Math
...From there, I taught 7th and 8th grade math for 15 years. For 13 of those years, I was also a team leader and oversaw 6 teachers and 180 students. For 10 years I was the coordinator for all first and second year teachers and taught them practical ways to be effective in their classrooms. (read more)