Hi, I'm Yi! In high school I received a 1600 score on the SAT Math and Critical Reading sections. I received my bachelors in Mathematics at Columbia in 2019, graduating cum laude. (read more)
I was a double major at the University of Texas at Austin in pure math and physics and got my PhD in physics at the University of Florida. I have over 10 years of experience teaching physics and math. I enjoy helping students develop an intuitive understanding of both math and physics. (read more)
...Too often, students get very good at memorizing certain procedures without having an understanding of what they are actually doing. I ask a lot of questions to assess the student's thought process and then tailor my instruction based on the student's response. I have expertise in tutoring any middle school math and high school math subjects. (read more)
...My favorite method of doing so is constantly facing students with variations of the original problem, waiting for their ideas, and challenging them. I always try to explain the same principle from different perspectives, often using cross-disciplinary analogies. These allow for a deeper understanding of the material and also provide students with a broader arsenal on their exam day. (read more)
...I am currently a PhD student at Drexel University in the Mathematics department with interest in Partial differential equations. I had my bachelors at University of Agriculture Abeokuta in Mathematics and my Master’s degree at Ohio University in Mathematics. I worked at Ohio University at the M... (read more)