...I had great success in not only raising GPA's, but also in solidifying a true understanding of the core mathematical concepts. I have since gone on to provide math tutoring at my local community college where I still employ the same principles that I learned while studying for my degrees. On to... (read more)
...While I try and make my teaching/tutoring as accessible as possible, and try to avoid mathematics jargon, I do have high expectations for my students. Learning math and statistics is all about doing problems and examples, so I expect my students to continually do new problems. I have lots of resources that I can provide to help students do more problems. (read more)
...Maths with my students, running Math Counts contests at the state level, helping to create the end-of-year high school math contest for my state, and many others. I believe that although algorithmic thinking and deductive reasoning is critically important in mathematics, so are conceptual thinki... (read more)