I'm Jacob! After graduating with a Bachelors degree in Physics with minors in Math and Computer Science, I went on to receive a PhD in Space Physics. While in college, I was employed by the university to tutor fellow students in Calculus and Discrete Mathematics. As a PhD student, my time as a Graduate Teaching assistant was spent teaching physics labs and helping students with physics homework at the university help center.
Long being aware of the poor reputation of Math Class as...
I'm Jacob! After graduating with a Bachelors degree in Physics with minors in Math and Computer Science, I went on to receive a PhD in Space Physics. While in college, I was employed by the university to tutor fellow students in Calculus and Discrete Mathematics. As a PhD student, my time as a Graduate Teaching assistant was spent teaching physics labs and helping students with physics homework at the university help center.
Long being aware of the poor reputation of Math Class as boring/difficult, I've occasionally contemplated how I would go about teaching the subject more effectively. The best solution seems to be to gamify the subject, showing off neat tricks to simplify problems, and most importantly to explain the underlying logic behind any new concept. As a high functioning autistic person myself, I can corroborate that failure to perform this last bit tends to be one of the big stumbling blocks towards grasping concepts for autistic learners, and suspect this may be true to some extent for everyone. I hope that applying this approach will help students get ahead.
