...I recently retired from teaching Math at Monarch High School in Louisville, CO. where I taught for for 23 years. I taught math for more than 10 years before that in Denver in and northern California. I have a B.A. and teaching credential from CU Boulder and a Masters in Secondary Ed. from San Jose State as well as a lot of advanced coursework in math. (read more)
...As opposed to formal tutoring experience, I have mainly helped people in help rooms or other similar environments in the past. However, that lack of formal tutoring experience has not kept me from developing my own understanding of how math teaching should be done. Both in my own learning and t... (read more)
...As a graduate student, I was a Teaching Assistant for many courses in the Applied Math department, teaching in the classroom setting, as well as holding small scale study sessions.I've taught at the the college level courses up through differential equations. I have taken courses in education and pedagogy. I studied Applied Mathematics in school. (read more)
...I succeeded in these classes based on the strong foundation of mathematics that I built in high school, where I learned subjects such as algebra, trigonometry, geometry, pre-calculus, and AP Calculus AB. At the University of Notre Dame, I pursued chemical engineering and took math courses such a... (read more)
...Discrete Mathematics is often student's first foray into proof writing and abstract problem solving, usually while exploring topics both familiar (functions and the real numbers), and unfamiliar (sets, equivalence relations, graphs, etc.). I have experience guiding students throughout not only th... (read more)