...Meanwhile, I have victories against titled players online including IMs and GMs and my highest lichess platform rating is 2460. I started teaching chess during my college freshman year and now I have about 5 years of online and in-person teaching experience. My students ranged from beginners to intermediate players with a rating around 2000. (read more)
...My Personal Best times include: 1) Mile - 4:37, 2) 5K - 16:24, 3) 8k - 26:35, 4) 10k - 34:20. Before entering college, I graduated high school with a Regents Degree from Walt Whitman High School. In order to get this degree I had to complete a minimum of 3 math regents, 3 science regents, 2 history regents, and 1 English regents. (read more)
...I'm a very patient person with the goal of having you understand these concepts so that you can move ahead in the future with confidence. Math really isn't that bad...it's all about making difficult things simpler...really. I'm confident that my nature and experience can be very helpful to those challenged by their math class or looking forward to improved scores on entrance exams. (read more)
...The beginning use of variables (letters) in Math can be confusing. My experiences have told me, that pupils can some times lose interest in Math not because they not a good math student but because an important Math link was severed and was never mended before moving on to a new concepts. I am very good at finding and building strength around those links. (read more)
...I was a high school teacher for a brief time and, more recently, I taught Probability and Statistics at Stony Brook University for a few years, where I received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. I tutor the high school basics (Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2), the advanced cou... (read more)