...From my own teaching and tutoring physics at the high school and IB/AP/college levels over six years, I've honed my ability to recognize a student's difficulties and adjust my style to help learning happen. I focus on building a solid understanding of the big concepts and encouraging my students... (read more)
...I have a BA in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland's prestigious honors program, and a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems from CUNY Hunter College. I tutor part time while I work for a local flight simulator. I started tutoring SAT for my high school in 2005, shortly after I took the test myself. (read more)
...I have been doing competition math since 3rd grade and have personal experience with all major math competitions including the AMC series, the AIME, and the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament. Furthermore, my students have improved tremendously from my tutoring. In particular, previous students of mine have gained over 10 points, resulting in scores of 20+, on the AMC 8 after tutoring. (read more)
...We begin by reviewing homeworkâusually no more than three questions designed to reinforce the methods we focused on last time and apply them in new contexts. We work together to extract basic rules for approaching questions from these and other, simpler questions on the student's terms (i.e. in ... (read more)
...Professionally I have been a co-author on several peer reviewed journals and have given several presentations. I have also completed much coursework in geological sciences and have taken supplementary on-line courses in a variety of subjects via the Coursera and EdX platforms. Besides my experi... (read more)