Marcus S.
- San Diego, CA 92128 ( 23.5 mi )
- C++ Tutor
- Male
- Member Since: 08/2010
- Will travel up to 25 miles
- Rates from $45.00 to $57.00 /hr
- Also Tutors: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Desktop Publishing, Microsoft Access
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Persistent and patience with the student, foundation first for the material. . Especially with math, higher concepts won't be "grasped" unless the lower ones are mastered. Also, I find that doing any math at all for most people improves grasps on new concepts, so I'm never afraid to take a step backward if it means 2 or 3 steps forward. I also teach and encourage liberal use of Logic in problem solving. All of math is simply problem solving, and teaching good thought processes through meta-cognition and careful phrasing goes a long way. I believe that everyone can do math, and concentrating on how the mind can logically arrive at mathematical conclusions makes math a discovery rather than an exercise in learning a foreign language.
At UCR, I was a "drop-in" tutor. This means that for hours of the day in a room with 6 chalkboards, I would teach math to any UCR student who wanted to ... read more