Patient Math & Science Tutor ? Fundamentals First

Hello! I'm a mathematics tutor with a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics, and I believe that math makes sense when it's learned the right way. Too often math is taught as a pile of rules to memorize and formulas to plug into, with no explanation of why any of it works. That is exactly what makes it feel confusing, arbitrary, and dull. In his essay A Mathematician's Lament, Paul Lockhart compares this to teaching music by drilling students in notation for years while never letting them... Read More >>