Specializing in Algebra for adults and young students

Dear Parents and Students in the Silver Spring area,

I am a math major at Montgomery College, Silver Spring, where I tutor part-time for the College in the great algebra lab and in chemistry. I have a background in teaching piano, and I have a lot of life experience which I bring to the study desk as well.

My students always appreciate and enjoy my teaching style and they learn a lot. I use clear explanations, small steps, and I carefully and patiently review mistakes. I am familiar with all of the mistakes and weak areas that students of science and math usually have, and I know how to deal with them patiently and respectfully. Sometimes algebra and science can be frustrating and discouraging, even intimidating. However, with a knowledgeable and patient tutor, you or your son or daughter should have no trouble mastering algebra and moving on to trig and precalc if you want, and to make steady progress in science.

Think ahead. Summer can be a great time to prepare for the coming new school year.

Yours truly,
John B.

John's Subjects

Math:	algebra 1, algebra 2, calculus, prealgebra, precalculus, statistics, trigonometry
Science:	biology, chemistry, physical science
Music:	piano
English:	ESL/ESOL, grammar, literature, proofreading, reading, vocabulary, writing
Language:	ESL/ESOL
Elementary Education:	grammar, reading, vocabulary
Corporate Training:	ESL/ESOL, grammar, proofreading, statistics
Homeschool:	algebra 1, algebra 2, biology, calculus, chemistry, ESL/ESOL, piano, prealgebra, precalculus, reading, statistics, writing

Algebra 1

It is normal for Algebra to present a big challenge for many, even most students, those of us who either don't take to mathematics naturally, or like myself, find the difficulties quite frustrating, seemingly at times even prohibitively so.

Patience with one's progress and persistence are both required to learn algebra. We all remember the problems we had with the multiplication table, right?

However, there are ways to deal with the challenge without being completely demoralized... Read More

Algebra 2

If you liked algebra I, you will love algebra II. Algebra II is mainly just an extension of algebra I, where we focus on more representations of what you already know from advanced arithmetic, namely exponents and logs. These numbers are manipulated in algebra II just like integers are in algebra I.

We also include some more tricks like finding the solution to two linear equations at the same time (hint: it's where the lines cross!), and quadratic equations, which form parabolas, as... Read More

Biology

Biology is one of the fastest changing subjects out there today. And unlike many fields, there are also plenty of jobs - once one completes ones' education. Next semester I will be taking microbiology and genetics here at Montgomery College, both prerequisites for the last required course for the associate's degree: Nucleic Acid Methods. Great fun!

I enjoy teaching adults and children, especially those who, like me, are more interested in learning the material than anything else. Read More

Chemistry

Chemistry is one of the most interesting of the exact sciences. But it can also be one of the more difficult to master. It all depends on several factors including how complicated the teacher wants to make it. It doesn't have to be impossible to understand, but you would never know that when you listen to some lectures. There is a certain sequence of steps that one must take to progress to the next steps. For example, understanding the periodic table should be among the first things. Once you... Read More

Prealgebra

Prealgebra is really just glorified arithmetic. If you can do arithmetic and have a handle on the multiplication table up to 10 without using a calculator or fingers, you should be in good shape to start prealgebra. From there, it's a natural step to take to the real deal, algebra I. Then, of course there's algebra II and the rest. Also great fun (for some of us).

Even if you are one of these people for whom math represents a great hassle, I can probably help out there too, because... Read More

Trigonometry

Trigonometry is one of the most interesting of maths. Trig is based on the consistent ratios among three sides of right triangles, and thus the name, trig goes way beyond that and it turns up in the most surprising ways in nature and in higher math.

At the high school level, trig can be understood as the three main functions, sine, cosine, and tangent, and a lot can be done with these numbers. Later on(or right now for that matter, or as soon as you are ready,) we find identities that... Read More

Physical Science

Physical Science is really the best of all. If you want to find out how things work, from the tiniest imaginable thing, even tinier than anyone can imagine, you want physical science. But then, if you want to find out how the very immense things like stars and galaxies work--same thing, physical science. And everything in between, too. And you can study physics at any level, too. And maybe the most interesting thing of all is how with all the discoveries that have been made, there is still plenty... Read More

Piano

I started playing piano before I could walk. Some of my earliest memories are crawling around under my mother's piano.

To this day, I am totally enamored and amazed with the piano and how it works and how it sounds and most of all the fantastic amount of fine music for the piano.

My teachers include Esther Howe, of Silver Spring, Anne Liva at Wilkes College, Pa, Wes Walker also of Silver Spring, Wendell Margrave at the Washington Musical Institute, and Marilyn Neeley at... Read More

ESL/ESOL

I have a wealth of experience with the special problems facing anyone learning English as a second language, having travelled extensively in Russia, where I taught English, and in Eretria, where to my surprise almost everybody spoke English surprisingly well.

I have also taught English to foreign students here in the Washington, D.C. area.

In addition to that, my wife being from Ethiopia, also speaks very well, but of course runs into communication problems by way of idioms... Read More

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