Hello! My name is Ananya, and I would absolutely love to tutor you or your student! I recently graduated from Harvey Mudd College (near Los Angeles) with a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics, with a concentration in Linguistics, and I will begin a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology next fall. I have 8+ years of tutoring experience through my local Kumon Teaching Center, one-on-one tutoring and grading at my undergraduate institution, and group tutoring. As a...
Hello! My name is Ananya, and I would absolutely love to tutor you or your student! I recently graduated from Harvey Mudd College (near Los Angeles) with a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics, with a concentration in Linguistics, and I will begin a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology next fall. I have 8+ years of tutoring experience through my local Kumon Teaching Center, one-on-one tutoring and grading at my undergraduate institution, and group tutoring. As a result, I've had the opportunity to tutor younger (4 years old) to older (18-21 years old) students in topics from learning numbers and letters to electromagnetism! I am excited to help with any extra math/physics/random interests we share over the summer.
What I love most about teaching is being able to connect with others through an interdisciplinary approach: disciplinary boundaries are becoming more fluid as our collective knowledge advances, which becomes especially relevant when explaining topics. For example, many seemingly-abstract Physics can be explained through analogies to actual physical phenomena, like ripples on a pool's surface (wave packets in Quantum Physics) or a car's wheel getting stuck in a pothole (potential energy minima). As someone who understands topics better by relating them to things I already know and can see, I find this approach especially helpful when tutoring (even when "tutoring" myself!).
When teaching, I maintain a very casual environment to encourage question-asking and curiosity: these are the best starting points when learning a new topic or working through a hard homework problem! In addition, I make sure that students are able to explain their thought process verbally; especially in the age of AI, scientific/mathematical communication through proof writing is incredibly important. How else will anyone know how hard you worked? :)
I'm really looking forward to meeting you/your student! Please feel free to message me with any questions or concerns.
