...My tutoring journey spans a wide range of age groups and subjects, reflecting my commitment to helping students succeed at various academic levels. Over the years, I have had the privilege of guiding elementary school students in subjects like phonics, English, and math, witnessing their remarka... (read more)
...When I was an undergraduate student, I took a lot of science courses and participated in the Putnam competition, in which I got a 32, one of the highest scores of any students in my college. Our Putnam coach included one of the Putnam problems as extra credit in his discrete math final exam beca... (read more)
...I have a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. I have a lot of practical experience doing trigonometry, usually as part of some other engineering problem (e.g. free body diagrams in statics and dynamics). The essence of trig is going back and forth between the geometry, the algebra, and the various trig identities, and I can help people learn to do that. I know all my basic physics and chemistry. (read more)
...The bulk of my work over the last two and a half decades has been as an educator: as a classroom teacher (high school mathematics and middle school and high school French), as a tutor (with Colgate’s Math Clinic, with Sylvan Learning, and privately), as a test prep teacher and instructor trainer... (read more)
...In my sessions, I focus on conceptual understanding and bridging foundational gaps in knowledge, which have helped many of my students raise their grades by at least a full letter after one semester of working with me. With a background in two different engineering disciplines and 5 years of tut... (read more)