I received a Masters Degree in Secondary Mathematics Education from Shippensburg University in 1972. Since then I have taught Junior High School Mathematics (Middle School); GED Mathematics; and College Mathematics (Basic Math through Applied Calculus). During my tenure at Shepherd University I rec... (read more)
...I try to build the student's confidence to bring them to the point where they are solving a problem on their own with minimal handholding. PhD in Theoretical Physics, NYU, 2021. BS in Mathematics and BA in Physics, UChicago, 2015. (read more)
...All of the students that I have tutored say the same thing- “wow- that makes so much sense” or "why didn't my teacher show us that?" I have the ability to explain math topics in a way that teenagers understand. I won’t talk above their level and expect them to ‘just know it’. I explain topics ... (read more)
...During my time at Haverford College I majored in computer science, and minored in math. Some examples of courses taken were, Data Science, Machine Learning, Concurrency and Co-Design, and Computational Text Analysis. An example of a worked project would be my machine learning final, in which I trained various convolutional neural networks to classify images in American sign language. (read more)