...During the two year journey to become a more effective tutor, I strengthened the ability to teach Mathematics from the student's perspective. I also treated tutoring as a learning process for both the student and I to deepen our understanding of key concepts. In the setting, I tutored Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics, and Probability/Statistics. (read more)
...I have worked as a photographer for events and also as a freelance photographer with light DSLRs. Academically, I have passed a photography course with a GPA of 4.0. I speak Farsi at home, and have previously lived in Iran for 16 years. (read more)
...My philosophy is that the true value I can provide as a teacher is helping students set ambitious, achievable goals, enhancing their resilience in the face of hardships and failures, and enabling them to manage their own learning moving forward. Tutoring is my preferred form of teaching because ... (read more)
...In the classroom, I advised dozens of students working on personalized coursework in Math and Reading, ranging from high schooler's working on Algebra and graphing, down to children at the Pre-K level who I would personally teach to read and write for the first time. I work 1 on 1 with students ... (read more)
...Discrete math is one of my favorite topics. From logic, proofs, and set theory, to algorithms, graph theory, combinatorics, elementary number theory, and finite groups, discrete math topics are both fascinating in their own right, but also offer a great vehicle to teach fundamental math principl... (read more)