...I have played tournament chess at a B level. Between January 2000 and December 2001, I taught a course called Contemporary Applications of Modern Mathematics for four semesters at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The course covered Graph Theory, Voting Methods, Apportionment, The Traveling Salesman Problem, and Descriptive Statistics. (read more)
...Statistics has its own language. What is the mean, mode, variance, factorial, or normal distribution? Do you know how to use your graphing calculator for statistics? (read more)
I have graduate degrees in mathematics and biology and more than 20 years’ experience teaching high school and college students; I have been tutoring for as long, especially in math, science, and writing. My experiences as an educator are diverse, having worked with students from many backgrounds, ... (read more)
...And I am in the process of getting certified to teach English as a foreign language (TEFL). I have played chess for the past 35 years. I have learned that chess is a game of balance while preserving sufficient key pieces to achieve a checkmate, or at least, to force an anti-climactic stalemate. ... (read more)