I'm Charlie! I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in pure mathematics, then went on to my graduate degree in teaching mathematics education. Some of my favorite classes included Combinatorics, Linear Algebra, and Vector Analysis. In college, I served as a peer tutor, primarily tutoring subjects from algebra through the calculus series. I also served a semester as a teaching assistant for a precalculus class. During grad school, I spent a year student teaching in a high school...
I'm Charlie! I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in pure mathematics, then went on to my graduate degree in teaching mathematics education. Some of my favorite classes included Combinatorics, Linear Algebra, and Vector Analysis. In college, I served as a peer tutor, primarily tutoring subjects from algebra through the calculus series. I also served a semester as a teaching assistant for a precalculus class. During grad school, I spent a year student teaching in a high school algebra II classroom. After graduation, I spent around a year and a half working for a dedicated tutoring company, working 1 on 1 with students to achieve concrete and measurable results in their SAT or ACT scores.
My tutoring philosophy centers around making mathematics seem more approachable to those who feel intimated by the often strict and elitist culture that has been built around the world of math academia. I center instruction around helping each student build an intuition for the ideas, rather than memorizing anything. I firmly believe that nothing in math should be memorized, and people can and should get comfortable enough with the language of mathematics to reason their way through problems. I encourage this by not only working with each student to develop an intuition about each subject, but by prompting them to form their own opinions about what solution paths they like better and what ways of conceptualizing things fits better into their own personalized, constructed mathematical framework.
I have a genuine passion for helping people understand math, and I hate it when people say math isn't for them. Whether you need a concept explained without all the academic fluff, help studying for a test, or simply somebody to work through practice problems with you, I'm the guy for the job.
