...I would like to benefit my students as much as possible. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns. I scored 129 on the Chem/Phys section of the MCAT (92nd percentile), and am a former Statistics major for the Unversity of St Andrews. (read more)
I have a Caltech bachelor's degree in Physics, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. I was a full time teacher for 5 years as professor at a community college where I taught both general physics and calculus-based physics, as well as astronomy, environmental science and math. Over the past fifteen years... (read more)
...I have taken many math classes that incorporate linear algebra. I took math 220 at Penn State which involved solving systems of equations using matrices. I also took math 230 at Penn State, which was calculus and vector analysis of three dimensional equations. (read more)
...Why not? Because 'showing your work' prevents you from short-circuiting the steps that at some point in the past should have become trivial. For example, years ago, when you were learning how to read, you had to first learn how to recognize the shapes of individual letters, and the sounds that each of them made. (read more)
...I also received a score of 1580 on the SAT (perfect 800 in Math and 780 in English). Additionally, I have participated and scored well in several math competitions, such as my math team, the AMC, the AIME, and I competed on the Connecticut ARML team. I have been tutoring my fellow high school cl... (read more)