...The foundation of any good tutoring experience is to consult with a student and identify the core issues, and so I let those issues guide my teaching of the material. Then, I try to give students time to practice and apply the material. The wonderful nature of tutoring is that it can adapt to a... (read more)
...Yet another is to consider an extreme case. It may not be obvious that a triangle cannot have lengths 17, 15, and 33, but it is when you consider 1, 3, and 10. Finally, visualization, whether it be slices of pizza (fractions) or high-speed photographs (derivatives), often brings an elusive concept home. (read more)