Hi, I'm Alexandra and I'm a student at Cornell. Throughout high school, I tutored in Math and Latin and fell in love with helping students. I found that explaining concepts simply and making learning genuinely enjoyable were important skills I developed to effectively help my students. (read more)
...We work together to extract basic rules for approaching questions from these and other, simpler questions on the student's terms (i.e. in language that the student has derived themselves and understands). To finish the lesson, we take a look at more challenging questions to practice skill applica... (read more)
...That said, I have worked with many students across a diverse background, and have found it easy to accommodate many different learning styles, so please let me know your preferences in your message, or, we can figure it out together! I am looking forward to helping you through your academic purs... (read more)
...I am currently in my third year of a PhD in mathematics at Cornell University. Since high school, I have tutored students of all levels in multiple fields of math. In college I worked as a teaching assistant in a wide variety of classes spanning introductory-level and upper-level classes, many in Discrete Math. (read more)
...Additionally, my coursework through my undergraduate and graduate degrees has covered all of the required math for an engineering degree. I have one year of experience tutoring middle school students in algebra and geometry and I currently teach a middle school level science class for homeschool... (read more)