...I'm Lae Un (or Leon), and I'm passionate about teaching math. I started tutoring back in high school and kept it up through my college days at UC Berkeley, helping out at the Student Learning Center. After that, I went on to get a Master's in Mathematics at New York University and a Ph.D. in Biomathematics from UCLA. (read more)
...I understand that learning new material can be not only challenging but also frustrating. I am skilled at breaking things down and explaining concepts for my students. I also emphasize and reinforce the fundamentals. (read more)
...I have taken General Chemistry courses and advanced course in Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chem., Inorganic & Organic Chem., related applied courses in Food Microbiology, Food Analysis, etc. My background is in Engineering and have taken all university levels of mathematics courses, including ... (read more)
...In my stretch of tutoring it has become very clear that there is no lone strategy for helping every student to absorb information or to understand a concept. As a tutor, I make a personal effort to become familiar with a student's 'learning personality' so that I may steer clear of lecturing (so... (read more)
...Math is the result of applying the rules of logic to the universe of abstract objects (that live in our imagination), whereas Physics is the result of applying logic to the universe of physical objects (that we percieve through our sensory apparatus). The learning curve in any discipline that emp... (read more)