268 Menlo Park Derivative Tutors

...All math builds off prealgebra. Precalculus is an important stepping stone to prepare a student for Calculus. It consists of a lot of trigonometry and the beginning subjects of Calculus, such as limits. I have experience tutoring high school precalculus. Trigonometry is very important for a student to succeed in precalculus and calculus. The comforting... read more

...It is essential when teaching calculus to make full use of graphs, even when problems can be solved exclusively with equations. There is frequent confusion between a function and its derivative function, and this confusion can be remedied only by lots of practice with graphs. Calculus classes now include some physics, particularly the physics of... read more

...I believe that it is necessary to teach math for understanding rather than having students memorizing procedures, and it is probably through my engineering background that I recognize that it is critical to break down problems and concepts into steps, the size of which depends directly on the needs of the student. I strongly believe that everyone... read more

...Those were great memorable years; I worked as TA and RA at UCLA, while attending classes; tutored my classmates as well as general high school and college math (calculus, precalculus, etc.) and physics, outside UCLA, supporting myself financially; it was lots of fun, as it is still today. I graduated with flying colors and went to work in the industry;... read more

...I am a grad student in Mathematics, currently taking a break from classes. I also have a B.S. in Secondary Math Education. Although I am very skilled at many different types of math, more importantly I am very able to help YOU become skilled in the math understanding that is important to your goals. I have worked with math students for 9 years now,... read more