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Patient Math Tutor - Precalculus, Trigonometry, Algebra, Geometry
Dennis D.

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Hourly Rate: $48
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About Dennis


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I have a passion for helping others to learn and have tutored elementary, high school, college and adult students. I have used math and physics extensively during my career as an engineer and have learned how to explain concepts in an easily understandable way. I started tutoring with Wyzant two years ago and I am excited about the opportunities that I have had to share math and physics with my students. My specialties are Precalculus, Trigonometry, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry.

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I have a passion for helping others to learn and have tutored elementary, high school, college and adult students. I have used math and physics extensively during my career as an engineer and have learned how to explain concepts in an easily understandable way. I started tutoring with Wyzant two years ago and I am excited about the opportunities that I have had to share math and physics with my students. My specialties are Precalculus, Trigonometry, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry.

I want to help the students I work with, and therefore welcome any suggestions students or parents can provide. Contact me today if you have questions or to schedule a tutoring session. Thank you!


Education

Penn State University
Mech Engineering
Penn State University
Masters

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ACT Math

ACT Math

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I will review strategies for higher scores including how to identify areas for improvement, key formulas you should know, taking practice tests to become familiar with the ACT test, and time management.
ACT Science

ACT Science

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I will review strategies for higher scores including the 3 types of passages in the ACT (Data Representation, Research Summaries and Conflicting Viewpoints), taking practice tests to become familiar with the ACT test, and time management.
Algebra 1

Algebra 1

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as solving equations, absolute value equations, equations of lines, solving systems of equations, and how to write equations based on algebra word problems.
Algebra 2

Algebra 2

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as exponential functions, logarithms, transformations, finding zeros of polynomial functions, graphing polynomials, and complex numbers.
Elementary Math

Elementary Math

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as least common denominators, least common multiples, operations on fractions (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing), operations on decimals, converting fractions to decimals, how to understand and solve word problems, mean, median, mode, and range.
Geometry

Geometry

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as areas of geometric shapes, volumes of geometric shapes, geometric proofs, triangle similarity, quadrilaterals, circles – chord, secant, and tangent formulas, and parallel lines cut by transversals.
Physics

Physics

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in physics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as velocity and acceleration, angular velocity and acceleration, Newton’s Laws, friction, projectile motion, momentum and impulse, kinetic energy and potential energy, work, power, centripetal forces and mass moments of inertia.
Prealgebra

Prealgebra

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as function graphs, prime numbers, prime factorization, the Pythagorean Theorem, factorials, absolute values, arithmetic and geometric series, square roots, rational numbers and irrational numbers.
Precalculus

Precalculus

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as vectors, conic sections (circles, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas), end behavior of polynomials, inequalities, sequences, exponents, logarithms, synthetic division, and asymptotes of rational functions.
SAT Math

SAT Math

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I will review strategies for higher scores including how to identify areas for improvement, key formulas you should know, taking practice tests to become familiar with the SAT test, and time management.
Trigonometry

Trigonometry

As a Mechanical Engineer, I have had extensive education in mathematics. My tutoring method is to engage students by helping them understand concepts, guiding them while they work through practice problems and encouraging them as they become more independent. I develop lessons specific to the needs of students on topics such as trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant, and cotangent), degrees vs. radians, inverse trigonometric functions, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines, matrices, trigonometric identities, the Unit Circle, writing sine/cosine/tangent equations, and solving trigonometric equations.
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Ratings and Reviews


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Reviews

Patient and knowledgeable tutor

Mr Dennis has a knack for explaining complicated math concepts. He is patient, and his friendly manner helps students who are anxious about math. He makes the most of the 60 minute sessions, using every minute for helpful instruction.

Brandi, 15 lessons with Dennis

Great Teacher

I recommend he is really great at teaching subjects and he deeply understands the subject. He helped me learn some topics and he is a great teacher. And helped achieve great test scores. Really great for physics and helps very much.

Adam, 60 lessons with Dennis

Great Teacher

I recommend he is really great at teaching subjects and he deeply understands the subject. He helped me learn some topics and he is a great teacher. And helped achieve great test scores. Really great for physics and helps very much.

Adam, 60 lessons with Dennis

Great Teacher

I recommend he is really great at teaching subjects and he deeply understands the subject. He helped me learn some topics and he is a great teacher. And helped achieve great test scores. Really great for physics and helps very much.

Adam, 60 lessons with Dennis

Great Teacher

I recommend he is really great at teaching subjects and he deeply understands the subject. He helped me learn some topics and he is a great teacher. And helped achieve great test scores. Really great for physics and helps very much.

Adam, 60 lessons with Dennis

Great Teacher

I recommend he is really great at teaching subjects and he deeply understands the subject. He helped me learn some topics and he is a great teacher. And helped achieve great test scores.

Adam, 60 lessons with Dennis

Great Teacher

I recommend he is really great at teaching subjects and he deeply understands the subject. He helped me learn some topics and he is a great teacher. And helped achieve great test scores.

Adam, 60 lessons with Dennis

great teacher

You are the best of the best teacher. You deserve more than 5 stars. I appreciate you for helping my son with his school homework.

Chi, 51 lessons with Dennis

Great Teacher

I recommend he is really great at teaching subjects and he deeply understands the subject. He helped me learn some topics and he is a great teacher.

Adam, 60 lessons with Dennis

Through and patient

My son had one lesson with Mr. Dry. He immediately felt more confident. He had a test the next day after the lesson and texted me after taking the test saying how much Mr.Dry helped him. We will be continuing with Mr. Dry and I would recommend him for anyone who has a high schooler that needs extra help outside of their normal classroom instruction.

Jamie, 11 lessons with Dennis
Hourly Rate: $48
Response time: 9 minutes
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