...And I enjoy the challenge of math problems! Minored in chemistry I took AP government in high school and got a 5 on the exam. I taught Anatomy & Physiology to college students (who were mostly pre-nursing). I have a PhD in microbiology and I am a Science journalist. (read more)
...My tutoring approach is very hands-on, until I think you can start to do it on your own. I like to guide my students every step of the way, then start having them do more and more each time on their own. You may come in completely confused on a topic, but after doing a couple of exercises you will leave much more confident, and with a much deeper understanding. (read more)
...My love for geometry came about when my math teacher put me in a geometry competition and I found myself standing on a podium a year later with a blue ribbon for having gotten every question right all year. I loved drawing the world as shapes, angles and lines and went on to apply it to study mo... (read more)
...Later, I used those same skills in a math tutoring program I helped set up at my high school through our school's chapter of the National Honor Society. I eventually majored in mathematics at Rice University, where I was an academic fellow, tutoring students in college-level mathematics, among o... (read more)
...Heck, I was one of those students. But, fear not. Even if you don't understand a single word in lecture, you CAN pass the class, and I can help with that. (read more)