Robert W.
- Oak Ridge, TN 37830 ( 28.8 mi )
- Statistics Tutor
- Male
- Member Since: 06/2010
- Will travel up to 25 miles
- Rates from $40.00 to $56.00 /hr
- Also Tutors: Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus I, Algebra I
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I have master’s degrees in Mathematics and Statistics with related work in Physics and Astronomy. My 20 years in education includes teaching at various colleges and high schools providing instruction in Statistics, Physics, Calculus and College Algebra. One of my more gratifying experiences was as a Learning Center Instructor working one-on-one with students in a wide variety of subjects. More recently, I worked with a middle school girl who had been bored and ranked as mediocre in public school, but was actually a child prodigy in need of more challenging material!
In my disciplines, the value of understanding totally outweighs rote memorization and learning of “recipes” for solving problems. I believe students understand new concepts in terms of their previous experience and background. I attempt to link previous experience to new experience and promote meaningful learning. I bel ... read more