Jessica G.
- Reed City, MI 49677 ( 24.3 mi )
- Experienced Calculus I Tutor
- Female
- Member since: 05/2012
- Will travel up to 5 miles
- Rates from $20 to $50 /hr
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On-line
In-Home
In-Group
- Also Tutors: College Algebra, Calculus II
My comments on tutoring Calculus I : Took Calculus as a undergraduate physics major and use it on a daily basis.
Students should come to me with problems, questions, and having tried to understand the material first. Questions are important to me because they help give a sense of where you are getting confused and stuck. Physics and Mathematics are difficult, and there is no such thing as a stupid question. Ideally, students will do reading, and then work through concepts and problems with me, where I help when stuck and point out mistakes.
Began as a Teaching Assistant (TA) in the Michigan Technological Universities (MTU) physics department as a physics lab TA for 3 years. Then I helped develop an Astronomy Lab and was the lab TA for a year. I then was a TA for a large lecture physics class for engineering students where I helped students on a 1-1 basis and helped the professor manage the class. In my final years as a Masters student at MTU, I helped run the online astronomy class and was th ... read more
