Having Academic Trouble? You Need The Shark! - Roanoke, VA (24016)

• Undergraduate:

  Fitchburg State Coll

• Location:

  Roanoke, VA (24016)

• Travel Radius:

  15 miles

• Tutoring Certifications:

  Algebra 1 - Algebra 2 - C++ - Calculus - Discrete Math - French - German - Grammar - Java - Microsoft Excel - Microsoft Word - Prealgebra - Precalculus - Proofreading - Study Skills - Vocabulary

• Tutor's Fee Per Hour:

  $25.00 pay-as-you-go or $20.00-$23.75 with the purchase of one of our packages.

  Question:

  How much does tutoring cost through WyzAnt?

  Answer:

  Tutors set their own rate and most range in price from $30 to $50 per hour, with others either lower or higher depending on experience and cost of living considerations. However, WyzAnt does offer discounts to our students for making an advance purchase.

  • You receive a 5% discount on packages of $200-$399, with a total cost of $190-$379.
  • A package of lessons that would cost $400-$999 will receive a 10% discount, resulting in an upfront charge of $360-$899.
  • A package worth $1,000-$2,499 will be eligible for a 15% discount, with a total cost of $850-$2124.
  • Packages of $2,500+ will receive a 20% discount and cost $2,000 and up.
  Remember, satisfaction with your first hour of tutoring is guaranteed and the unused portion of your purchase amount is both refundable and transferable to any WyzAnt tutor.

• Session Cancelation Notice:

  24 Hours

• Email MICHAEL from Roanoke today!

Having trouble academically? You need The Shark!

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Because of the bad economy, The Shark is taking less of a bite out of your wallet. Sessions are now $25 each instead of $40!
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The Shark Will:
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- Help you figure out how bad it is and what it will take to get *caught up*
- Show you how to organize yourself and stay on top of things
- Get focused on what you want to accomplish
- Straighten out the confusing concepts for the class you need help with
- Use sharkful cleverness to take tests better
- Use sharkful cleverness to do better academically, all-around!

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The Shark:
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- Relates the tutoring to your interests to keep you interested!
- Is very, very patient
- Does not mind explaining something over and over again until you get it
- Is very understanding
- Does not lecture you when you are irresponsible, but instead motivates you
- Makes you unembarrassed about asking questions
- Makes you unembarrassed about asking for something to be explained all over again
- Bites gently when necessary to make you do your work
- May appear more expensive by the hour, but you will need fewer hours!

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Shark Creds:
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- Certified by the College Reading and Learning Association (http://www.crla.net)
- Received College Reading/Learning Association Award for Excellence in Tutoring
- Two-time member of Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities (Who's Who)
- Magna cum laude graduate of the #1-rated public college in Massachusetts
- Dean's List each semester
- GPA in Mathematics: 3.51
- GPA in Computer Science: 3.57
- GPA in all other non-major courses: 4.00
- Very experienced tutoring college, high-school and middle-school students
- Tutored 314 students total (recounting some students tutored in multiple subjects)
- 100% pass rate, of all students who began tutoring before midterm

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A Shark Tale
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Hi! My name is Mike. My nickname is The Shark. That is what most of the students I tutor call me.

The short story behind the nickname is that I got a bunch of football players at my college through physics, calculus and other hard courses with B's and A's. The captain of the football team, Frank, nicknamed me The Shark when I got a star offensive lineman and others off academic probation. We then won the Bogan Division championship two years in a row. For those of you college football fans, Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts is a D3 school.

I tutored this offensive lineman in Precalculus with Trigonometry, Physics I and Industrial Chemistry to, uh, boost his GPA a little bit. That's right, he got all B's in the courses I tutored him in, and he made Dean's List that term. Then everybody started teasing him as the team nerd/genius.

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Let's Get Started
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The Shark looks forward to working with students of all ages and all educational levels. Take that first step as soon as possible so we can change your academic outcome!

• C++

  Having trouble getting your C++ program to compile? Clueless where to start? You need The Shark! The Shark has over 4 years' experience with C++, both inside and outside the classroom. The Shark was a member of the programming team at Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, MA. The Shark can help you with all sorts of C++ issues from basic to intermediate-advanced level: - The basics of writing a program and getting it to compile - Debugging your code - Compiler tricks, tools and shortcuts - Data structures and algorithms - Using encapsulation to hide the complexity of objects and increase program readability - Using inheritance to reuse your existing hard work - Using polymorphism to treat different objects (even from different classes) the same way - Using constructors and default and copy constructors to create and initialize objects - Using assignment operators - Using access privileges (private, protected, public) - Using storage classes (auto, register, static, extern) - Using storage qualifiers (const, volatile, mutable) - Using namespaces - Using iterator classes - Using exception handling and stack unwinding - Using container classes - Using the "this" pointer - Using nested classes - Using local classes - Understanding the difference between passing by reference vs. passing by value - Understanding the difference between malloc()/free() and new/delete - Understanding the difference between "new" and "operator new" - Understanding the difference between templates and macros - Understanding the difference between overloading and overriding - Understanding the difference between a pointer and a reference - Understanding the difference between a struct and a class - Understanding why constant change is a bad idea (pun intended) - Understanding virtual functions and pure virtual functions - Understanding abstract classes - Understanding memory alignment - Understanding using 'using' with namespaces - Understanding multiple inheritance (virtual inheritance)

• discrete math

  Having Trouble in Discrete Mathematics? You Need The Shark! The Shark offers help in undergraduate-level discrete mathematics on a number of topics: ===== LOGIC ===== - Basic laws and applications (identity, associative, commutative, idempotent, etc.) - Truth tables - Translation of sentences into logic - Propositional calculus (implication, logical equivalences, etc.) - Quantification of propositions (universal=for all, existential=there exists, etc.) - Paradoxes, contradictions, tautologies, contingencies - DeMorgan's Laws - Logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, etc.) ==== SETS ==== - Cardinality, empty set, etc. - Set operations (Cartesian product, union, intersection, etc.) - Relations on sets (reflexive, symmetric, asymmetric, antisymmetric, transitive, etc.) ========= FUNCTIONS ========= - Functions as many-to-one relations - Function terminology (image, domain, co-domain, range, graph) - Function types (injective, surjective, bijective, strictly increasing/decreasing, monotone) - Operations on functions (addition, multiplication, composition) - Special functions (inverse, floor, ceiling) - Order of functions and Big Notation (Big-O, omega, theta) =========== PROBABILITY =========== - Basic probability concepts - Independent vs. dependent events - Combinations, Permutations ======= GENERAL ======= - Formal mathematical proofs - Factorials - Several other concepts and applications of discrete mathematics

• study skills

  Having trouble studying efficiently? No clue where to start? You need The Shark! =============== The Shark Will: =============== - Show you how to organize yourself and stay on top of things - Help you figure out how you learn best: See it? Hear it? Learn from examples? (etc.) - Help you figure out how bad it is and what it will take to get *caught up* - Get focused on what you want to accomplish - Show you how to use all your resources to find your own answers - Use sharkful cleverness to take tests better - Use sharkful cleverness to do better academically, all-around! ================================= Reading: This Is No Bedtime Story ================================= - Understanding the importance of reading with a pencil in hand - Using SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) to stay awake and retain information - Using the Cornell note-taking method to help you focus on reading (and classroom lectures) - Finding the main idea in the paragraph and relating the rest of the sentences to it - How to wing it and make it look like you've read a chapter when you haven't ===================== Organizational Skills ===================== - The importance of writing the date on *everything* as soon as it's handed out - The importance of 3-ring binders with sections for Notes, Homework, Labs and Quizzes/Tests - The importance of punching holes in every sheet and sticking it *somewhere* - The importance of writing down all your assignments in one place - ...and MORE! =========== Test-Taking =========== - Never leave a question blank! Throw some BS down and hope for partial credit!!! - Multiple-choice (multiple-guess) tests: eliminating unlikely answers - Essay tests: make it hard to argue with what you've written - Trust yourself on easy questions, spend time on hard questions - Extract info from other parts of the test to help you with the part you're working on - Bargain with your teacher for a hint to get you started - When studying, Google other teachers' tests elsewhere for great practice - Exploiting every feature on your calculator for maximum benefit - ...and MORE! Set up an appointment today with The Shark!