...From 1979 to 1993, I read Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, eventually graduating with a BA in the Great Books of Western Civilization. In 2015, I took the Harvard University online course Super Earths and Life Beyond Earth. (read more)
With over twenty-five years of mathematics tutoring experience, I have worked with thousands of students. In addition to improved grades, comments I hear most often are improved confidence and improved overall number sense. In my past I was the director of education for Sylvan Learning Centers and I have taught math in classroom settings. (read more)
...I began teaching in Kentucky in 1990 and continued to do so at various levels (K-12) until 2007. The majority of my teaching experience is with high school mathematics from pre-algebra to calculus, but I have also taught physics and chemistry as an adjunct professor at the college level. I left... (read more)
...I took 4 years of French in high school and one year of college at Northwestern. I never really became fluent in the language, though, until I needed it to communicate on a daily basis. Repeating drills out of a French book is completely different from watching a movie in French, reading a book in French, or having a conversation with a French person! (read more)
...Are you happiest staying up all night finishing that paper, turning it in at the last minute, knowing that you could have done a better job if you just had a little more time? If those things make you happy, then don’t call me, because I will burst your bubble. I will show you that it's actually easier to practice good study skills than to try to do your work without them. (read more)