I fell in love with teaching during my college days. My professors gave me the opportunity to teach a few classes of my own, and I soon discovered the joy of helping students to reach that "aha" moment when everything becomes clear. Now, I'm trying to bring those "aha" moments to students of math, from prealgebra through calculus and statistics.
Brief Bio: While obtaining my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, I taught thermodynamics a few times. I enjoyed it enormously, and my students...
I fell in love with teaching during my college days. My professors gave me the opportunity to teach a few classes of my own, and I soon discovered the joy of helping students to reach that "aha" moment when everything becomes clear. Now, I'm trying to bring those "aha" moments to students of math, from prealgebra through calculus and statistics.
Brief Bio: While obtaining my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, I taught thermodynamics a few times. I enjoyed it enormously, and my students seemed to think I was pretty good at it, so I chose to pursue a career in education. I spent many years developing my own science curriculum for children, and for the last few years I've been building my own website devoted to astronomy education. I have also taught various math subjects to various ages. Recently, I taught a "Mathematics in Everyday Life" course to college freshmen and I tutored students through a first-year Statistics course.
My Approach: I want to help you learn to master the tools of math, by breaking complex procedures down into simple pieces, and by helping you to see the reasons we do things the way that we do at each step. You become a more confident and more flexible problem-solver that way, able to choose the right tool for the job, and able to adapt to changing circumstances and changing requirements.
My Subjects: I've been using math my entire life. I lived and breathed algebra and calculus during my years as an engineer, and during my recent work with astronomy I've been especially reliant on my skills in trigonometry. So I'm quite handy with any area of math up through calculus, although I'm a little rusty with differential equations. I'm also comfortable with first-year probability and statistics, although I'm not familiar with modern specializations, like "Statistics for Psychology" or "Statistics for Business".
Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I'd enjoy hearing about what you are learning, and discussing whether there is anything I can do to help you.
