...During my nine years of higher education, I have served as a teaching assistant for college-level mathematics courses, including Calculus, Introduction to Proof-based Math, Discrete Mathematics, Abstract Algebra, Topology, Differential Geometry, Algebraic Topology. My duties included delivering ... (read more)
...In high school, I have taken both the SAT and ACT, scoring in the top 10% on both and scoring a 5 on the AP Biology, Psychology, Calculus AB and US History exams. MY EXPERIENCEFor over six years, I have worked with dozens of high school student to prepare for the ACT and SAT in addition to subje... (read more)
...I feel that it is important that students not only are able to come up with the correct answer, but also that they understand how they got to that answer and why it makes sense. Too often, students get very good at memorizing certain procedures without having an understanding of what they are ac... (read more)
...In my teaching, I seek to fully engage the students. My favorite method of doing so is constantly facing students with variations of the original problem, waiting for their ideas, and challenging them. I always try to explain the same principle from different perspectives, often using cross-disciplinary analogies. (read more)
...It's not the difficulty of the section that gives students trouble, however; it's the way the questions are asked. The ACT loves to wrap up simple ideas in rarefied verbiage, masking basic grammatical concepts in complicated sentence structure and dirty tricks. Fortunately, I know how the test works, and I've helped many students increase their ACT English score by 2 points or greater. (read more)