...I occasionally conduct meetings with the general public as well as review the meeting outline of other speakers. Basic Skills include drawing lines, polylines, circles, ellipses and some commonly used commands such as offset, fillet, and polygons. I am also knowledgeable about point databases, profiles, and alignments in AutoCAD Civil 3D. (read more)
...I obtained my PhD in genetics studying learning disabilities with the goal of understanding how children do and do not learn. Recently, I have worked with children where English is not there first language. I have worked as a clinical research studying learning and memory with children whom had behavioral and attentional difficulties. (read more)
...Students have told me that my many nominations are because I obviously love teaching and work so diligently to help them. I have taught Beginning and Intermediate Algebra (equivalent to Algebra I and II in high school), College Algebra, Trigonometry, Precalculus, Calculus I and Engineering Stati... (read more)
...My philosophy in teaching math is:
- Learning math should be an active experience and should relate to the world. And always use “simpler numbers” if a problem’s numbers are complicated. (For example, paying $4 for 2 oranges makes it more obvious that you need to divide than paying $5.88 for ... (read more)
...I then ask the student to solve a few new problems that I will also solve. Afterwards, I will walk through their work and their approach to the problem going over any aspects that may have confused them if there are any. I am very flexible with time and prefer to be notified 24 hours prior to a cancellation, but as long as I have 3 hours notice I can work with that. (read more)