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35+yrs|Competition coach|Certified|Master's in Math Ed|Alg Geo PreCalc
Virginia W.

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I am a certified teacher with over 35 years of experience in math teaching and tutoring. I hold a master's degree in math education and have taught in a variety of settings, including elementary, middle, and high schools. Additionally, I offer problem-solving classes within the community to help students strengthen their math skills.

Throughout my career, I have provided one-on-one tutoring for hundreds of students, helping them catch up in school, achieve excellent grades, and develop a...

I am a certified teacher with over 35 years of experience in math teaching and tutoring. I hold a master's degree in math education and have taught in a variety of settings, including elementary, middle, and high schools. Additionally, I offer problem-solving classes within the community to help students strengthen their math skills.

Throughout my career, I have provided one-on-one tutoring for hundreds of students, helping them catch up in school, achieve excellent grades, and develop a love for math. My tutoring spans from elementary to college-level students, covering a range of topics such as pre-algebra, Algebra I and II, geometry, pre-calculus, calculus, statistics, and SAT preparation.

In the past decade, I have expanded my expertise to coaching and organizing national and international math competitions outside of the school environment. I have been involved in competitions such as MOEMS (Math Olympiads), Math Kangaroo, MathCounts, AMC 8, Noetic, Purple Comet, and more. Many of the students I coach have achieved high rankings in these competitions.

I teach problem-solving classes both online and in the community for Cool Math LA, and I currently serve as the California state director for Math Kangaroo, where I also contribute as a curriculum writer. Additionally, I founded the **Number Tournament**, the first event of its kind, aimed at improving number fluency for 3rd-8th grade students in the Greater Los Angeles area.


Education

UCLA
Computer Science
Calstate LA
Masters
  • Licensed teacher

Additional Languages

Mandarin Chinese
Yue Chinese (Cantonese)

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Approved Subjects

Common Core

Common Core

Common Core math emphasizes conceptual understanding, which has always been my approach to teaching. I help students grasp mathematical concepts, understand how they are interconnected, and apply them to real-world problems, enabling them to generalize mathematical ideas. As a national and international math competition coach, I fully recognize the importance of learning math through understanding rather than memorization.
Logic

Logic

I have been teaching logic as part of math competition preparation and as a summer class for the Arcadia Education Foundation. The topics I cover include deductive and inductive reasoning, the law of syllogism and detachment, the pigeonhole principle, cryptarithms, logic puzzles, and more. I incorporate games to engage students and enhance their strategic reasoning skills.
ACT Math
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Calculus
Elementary Math
Geometry
Linear Algebra
Precalculus
Probability
SAT Math
Statistics
Trigonometry

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