914 Atherton Math Tutors

...About me: I am originally from the Bay Area and took over 15 years of French in school. I also spent a year in Paris taking classes at the Sorbonne (Paris III). I also have working experience at a French company located in Paris and have a certification in Business French from the French Chamber of Commerce. I am a Bay Area native who has lived,... read more

...I graduated with flying colors and went to work in the industry; C programming, UNIX core/kernel system software and device drivers, X server and X Windows, and other software and firmware design and development, for many years. Later, I got into different but very interesting work, involving more sophisticated Math, physics and engineering, in... read more

...I currently help some students with middle school level English needs. Mostly it is with sentence structure and wording. I enjoyed helping with some book reports that required a student to see parallel themes throughout multiple books.... read more

...I am a credentialed classroom teacher, but I love working one-on-one with students because it allows me to quickly figure out their learning style and to tailor my instruction to what works for them. I believe that it is necessary to teach Math for understanding rather than having students memorizing procedures, and it is probably through my engineering... read more

..., students need to have mastered the graphical properties of linear functions before working on quadratic ones (hyperbolas, ellipses, parabolas). Since so many homework and exam problems in trig involve multiples of 30 and 45 degrees, I show all my students how to derive all the trig functions for those angles based on only two facts that need to... read more