...As a tutor, I enjoy following Lev Vygotsky’s philosophy of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). Vygotsky divides learning into three categories: (1) tasks a learner can accomplish without assistance, (2) tasks a learner can accomplish with assistance, and (3) tasks a learner cannot accomplish ... (read more)
...I would love to see kids experience this and start loving math and science.I have a Ph.D in Physics and so have Math fundamentals. Completed my PhD in Physics from IIT Mumbai. Have taught Calculus to high school students for several years. (read more)
...Such higher level courses (diff eq, linear algebra, discrete mathematics, etc) are what I enjoy tutoring the most and what I am best at. Different mathematics courses are difficult in different ways. Linear algebra is hard for students in one very specific way:
This course will be far more abstract than any mathematics course you have taken thus far. (read more)
...I also have practical experience in statistics and probability from my psychology major and lab work. I have been working for a private tutoring and test prep company for the past five years. I have also developed my own test prep materials for Teachers Pay Teachers. (read more)
...I am able to instruct in beginner conversational Hebrew, particularly to children, and have a special expertise in making lessons fun. I have been cooking since I was a child. My Moroccan mother and Egyptian father raised me to know the value of good food. (read more)