...My name is Josiah Locke. I am a Wisconsinite born and raised, with a BA in Mathematics from UW Madison, which has a top 20 US news ranked math department. I was mentored under top faculty who attended instuititions such as the Institute for Advanced Studies and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. (read more)
...Moreover, I recognize patterns in how a student works (do they always forget middle terms with distributing? parentheses when deriving with the chain rule? or the constraint equation when solving with Lagrange multipliers?) to give targeted advice on what to focus on in practice to best improve s... (read more)
...I also have an MS degree in engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard.In teaching Advanced Algebra and Precalculus, I cover the following topics with the student:
1.Review of Word Problems and Dimensional Analysis
2.Linear and Quadratic Functions
3.Polynomial and Rational Functions
4.Expo... (read more)
...This focused primarily on mathematics and computer science, but also included SAT/ACT prep, along with some science and social studies courses. My goal with every student I work with is to get the proverbial light bulb to go off in their head, and help them truly understand the core concepts the... (read more)