...I worked for seven years as an actuarial analyst at Humana. In that time I passed four actuarial exams. I passed Probability(Exam P), Financial Mathematics(Exam FM), Models for Financial Economics(Exam MFE). Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models(Exam C). I am not currently pursuing an actuarial credential. (read more)
...Finally, something clicked in college with a calculus professor, and I realized that math did not have to be painful. I started tutoring math in college, and the people I worked with started saying, "I didn't realize math could be this easy!" and some even asked if I had ever thought about becom... (read more)
...An active area in which I pursue research is the numerical solution of partial differential equations describing materials behavior. This entails a detailed understanding of linear algebra. I can offer lessons in the basics of vectors and matrices, solutions of systems of linear equations using matrix methods, algorithms for numerical solution of systems of linear equations. (read more)
...My past tutoring experience/students include elementary and middle school students in the Indianapolis area as part of an after school program, middle and high school students from under-resourced schools on Chicago's South Side, and fellow colleagues and classmates (peer tutoring), among others.... (read more)
...So what is Algebra? Simply put, Algebra is about finding the unknown; it is about putting real life problems into equations and then solving them. Algebra is a branch of mathematics based on the concept of unknown values called variables; arithmetic, on the oher hand, is based entirely on known number values. (read more)