...I think many students need help in the area of algebra but don’t even realize it. Algebra is embedded in so many other areas of study. It's an important subject to master as it’s a building block much like arithmetic. (read more)
...What is the text already telling us? If we can't deduce it, what other skills can we employ to utilize the broad background knowledge we already possess? Depending on grade level, I prefer to make use of well-known works of literary merit—particularly poems and short stories that are easily dig... (read more)
...I determined the fastest rearrangement rate of any aliphatic hydrocarbon radical at the time. My graduate research there also involved the attempted alternative route for the synthesis of pentaprismane and mechanistic study of an novel ring system. Afterwards, I did postdoctoral research in are... (read more)
...I look forward to working with you! SteveMath has an uncanny way of instilling equal parts wonder and terror in students. It’s a system that underpins the mysteries of the universe (and, closer to home, may one day get you a job), but math education sometimes gets a bit lost in its own abstraction and can lose sight of its audience. (read more)
...Most of my teaching experience comes from my work as a Teaching Fellow whilst I was earning my Mathematics Ph.D. from Boston University, and some more comes from my time as a Math Lecturer at Northeastern University. I previously spent several years tutoring at the community college I started at... (read more)