...I helped students catch up to grade level as quickly as possible. I attended the University of Kentucky where I have a bachelor's degree in Business Marketing and a minor in fashion merchandising. My master's degree is in Middle School Mathematics education.I have taught algebra 1 for 10 years as well as tutored students in Algebra and helped with the ACTs. (read more)
...If students don't understand the underlying mechanics, then how could they ever truly learn mathematics? I'm not a tutor who will just teach a process and call it a day, I want students to feel like they have control over their work. Overall, I want to increase a student's mathematical reasoning, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency to be worked upon in tutoring sessions. (read more)
...I recently tutored my own son through a semester undergraduate course in ordinary differential equations, so I have recently refreshed my knowledge of this material. I have a B.S. in applied mathematics and an M.A. in pure mathematics. I taught two sections of this course in Spring 2015, so I recently refreshed myself on this material. (read more)
...I enjoy helping students to achieve specific goals, such as passing Algebra 2, or understanding the dreaded proofs in Geometry that most students complain about. I have helped many students achieve higher SAT and ACT scores after they have come worked with me for a couple of months prior to taki... (read more)
...I am passionate about STEM and excited for the opportunity to help people learn. I have always been very interested in science which is what originally led me to engineering. Math, however, was a different story for me at first. (read more)