Math PhD, 14 yrs experience Pre/Calculus: confidence through precision

I focus on tools to make problem solving straightforward: a simple reductionist approach to concepts (e.g. calculus I only has 2.5), insistence on fundamentals, and helping students to be kind to themselves. Students? main obstacle is not conceptual, but assuming math is complicated, having learned a long list of processes instead of the short list fundamental laws. That causes sloppy ?bookkeeping?, then losing track of if you?re right (the student?s job). I?ve been teaching/tutoring for eigh... Read More >>