"Problem solving takes practice! Drawing on my MA in math education and over 20 years of experience tutoring, I coach students to master algebra, precalculus, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics. My student-centric teaching style has helped people struggling with math anxiety and learning differences, including students on the autism spectrum. By experiencing and building on successes in problem-solving, students improve their mathematical skills and develop confidence and motivation.

I love tutoring because one-on-one interaction is the best way to catalyze students' problem-solving skills and truly engage with the conceptual underpinnings of mathematical endeavors. I specialize in high school math because students often begin having trouble with the broader range of concepts and vocabulary in algebra and precalculus, which is precisely when students can learn what will be most useful to them in everyday life. I draw on real-world examples and applications in every subject: in precalculus, logarithms help us understand the interest rates on loans, and in trigonometry we can use graphs to track the changing seasons. When the problem-solving power of math helps students engage with topics they care about, math becomes not a chore but a skill to be honed through practice.

My experience began as a peer tutor at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and continued at Duke University where I got my Bachelor of Science in mathematics and my teaching certification at the same time. I earned my Master of Arts in mathematics education at Ohio State University shortly thereafter, where my my thesis focused on using physical models to help students in AP calculus solve integrals to find the volume of unusual shapes, one of the most difficult topics included in AP mathematics." less...