I've been teaching mathematics in Sumter High School, Sumter, SC for five years. I recently relocated to Columbia, and I teach mathematics at C.A. Johnson High School, Columbia, SC now. (read more)
...If I do not have the expertise to tutor any aspect of a subject I will let a student know that so that I do not give out any false hopes. Algebra I applies Mathematical operations for problem solving with the unknown. It introduces equations, slopes of lines, absolute values, inequalities, equation systems, and solutions of radicals. (read more)
...I find that the most detrimental thing to a mathematics student is lacking a core foundation. In math, everything you learn builds on top of what you learned in previous years, and without that strong foundation, students can fall behind. When teachers explain something in class they assume that the students have a certain knowledge about math based on what they learned in previous years. (read more)