...Like many of my fellow engineers at MIT, I got into college with a perfect SAT math and SAT II Level II C score. Looking back, it was due to a series of teachers giving me a strong foundation in algebra, geometry, statistics and trigonometry that got me there. Since then, the SAT Math has not gotten any harder but the emphasis on math required for SAT has changed. (read more)
I'm Jacob! I graduated Summa cum Laude with a B.S. in mathematics and a minor in astrophysics from the University of Minnesota before moving to Seattle to pursue a Ph. D. in mathematics at the University of Washington. (read more)
...I love bringing kids to those “aha” moments when a math concept makes more sense and is not a rote manipulation of symbols. Depending on your child’s needs, we can work together on homework, problems from classwork, or on some of the skills that they don’t have time for in school but that serve ... (read more)
...The title of my Masters thesis is, "The Host Environment for a Multiprocessor Machine: Waterloop V2/64" and offered a virtual environment (e.g., screen, keyboard, file system, etc.) for a 64 processor "systolic" multiprocessor computer. I have both a Bachelors and Masters degree specializing in ... (read more)
...I've taught at the college level as well, as a teaching assistant for mechanical-engineering and climate-science courses. I'm also a math-contest problem writer. My math courses in school ranged from Algebra 1 to AP Calculus AB and BC to differential equations and complex calculus and more. (read more)