...I find that the most detrimental thing to a mathematics student is lacking a core foundation. In math, everything you learn builds on top of what you learned in previous years, and without that strong foundation, students can fall behind. When teachers explain something in class they assume that the students have a certain knowledge about math based on what they learned in previous years. (read more)
...In college, I took a basic college algebra course (MATH 111) and received an A. At the University of South Carolina I have a tutoring job with the Student Success Center where I tutor MATH 111, MATH 122 (business calculus), two accounting courses, and a computer applications course. I have held this job for over a year now and love helping students succeed! (read more)