...I absolutely love working with my students in the classroom. I also enjoy working with students in a one-on-one setting as well! I am able to take my many years of experience and use that to help explain the math to students in a way that makes sense. (read more)
...That's why I became a math teacher; I've been through what your student is going through, & I said ENOUGH. I remove all the meaningless memorization, & don't just focus on getting the right answers, but on understanding WHY we're even doing what we're doing! I believe that math is something tha... (read more)
I earned my B.S. in Physics from Illinois State University, with a minor in Mathematics. Afterward, I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I earned my M.S. in Physics, as well as another M.S. in Agronomy (studying the evolution of herbicide resistance in weeds). I then att... (read more)
...I worked with most of the children individually. Of the seven, six made very substantial gains from pre-test to post-test and attained grade-level skills or slightly better. I used the assigned curriculum which I supplemented with games, books and activities. (read more)