...I don’t need students to be fast; I need them to be sure. Because math topics are all built upon previous topics, there is nothing to gain (and much to lose) from moving on to the next lesson, before mastery is achieved in the current one. I graduated as a Mathematics major from SUNY College at... (read more)
...I am trained as a modeling teacher, a technique pioneered by ASU. Modeling is "a guided-inquiry approach to teaching science that organizes instruction around a coherent storyline of model development (taken from American Modeling Teachers Association website)." I give guidance but the students ... (read more)
...As a student in a doctoral Pharmacy program, I have taken my fare share of advanced mathematic courses. All of which were built on the fundamentals of Pre-Calculus and Calculus. I have tutored Pre-Calculus as a peer tutor and as a professional tutor for over 2 years and I am confident in my ability to assist students in this subject! (read more)
...Fast forward a little bit over a decade, and I now find myself working on my PhD in experimental particle physics, which is used to probe the structure of matter at the smallest scales ever observed. It is my belief that everyone has an intrinsic understanding of mathematics that can be brought ... (read more)