...Learning how to handle unknown numbers is foundational but is also very intimidating when a student first hears a teacher talking about adding and multiplying letters of the alphabet. Unfortunately many students never have anyone help them through this initial stage of intimidation. They are convinced even before they begin that Algebra will be over their head. (read more)
...I am an experienced student in the subject (one upper-division Geometry course at UCLA and a few weeks on teaching Geometry in a Teaching course also at UCLA), and my student teaching experience included some teaching of geometry at a LAUSD high school. Over the past year I have taught Prealgebr... (read more)
...One of the hardest parts of writing is getting started! I can teach skills on pre-planning, showing students how to put their ideas into a strong outline, and how to support their ideas with evidence from their reading. I can also provide support for skills like sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and much more. (read more)
...As I continue my medical education, I am eager to leverage these skills to support and mentor others in their academic endeavors.With a strong background in competitive chess spanning over 16 years, I currently serve as a Chess Tutor and Tournament Director at the Saint Louis Chess Club since Oct... (read more)
...I also have experiencing debugging and troubleshooting large C++ programs used by the modeling community. I have been using various CAD and solid modeling programs for the past nine years, including AutoCAD, FreeCAD, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, and CATIA. Most of my work in these programs is geared towards drafting engineering drawings. (read more)