I taught high school math before anything else, and if that job taught me one thing, it's that almost nobody is actually bad at math. What they usually have is one or two broken pieces and a heck of a lot of bad memories. A shaky foundation makes everything else feel awful. So that's what I do: find the broken piece, fix it, and then rebuild. Once the foundation is solid, the stuff that felt impossible starts feeling obvious, and that moment is pretty much the whole reason I tutor.
My...
I taught high school math before anything else, and if that job taught me one thing, it's that almost nobody is actually bad at math. What they usually have is one or two broken pieces and a heck of a lot of bad memories. A shaky foundation makes everything else feel awful. So that's what I do: find the broken piece, fix it, and then rebuild. Once the foundation is solid, the stuff that felt impossible starts feeling obvious, and that moment is pretty much the whole reason I tutor.
My background is a little unusual: I hold two bachelor's degrees, one in electrical engineering and one in human biology, and I spent years as a power engineer designing electrical substations. Lots of applied math where the numbers have real consequences.
Before that I spent two years teaching full high-school classrooms in Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry. Right now I'm back in school myself as a pre-med post-bacc student carrying a 4.0, which means I'm not someone fondly remembering this material from fifteen years ago. I'm sitting in lecture halls taking exams on it this semester, so I know exactly what the student side still feels like, test anxiety included.
I tutor algebra, chemistry, and biology in person around Colorado Springs.
Fair warning: I'll make you do the problems. Watching me solve them feels like learning, but it isn't. The reps are where the change happens, and I'll be right there while you get them.
