INSTRUCTOR PROFILE:
II grew up in Phoenix in a family of educators. After teaching high school for a few years, I went to New York to teach at a middle school in the Bronx and get my Masters in Mathematics Education from Teachers College at Columbia University. When my first son was born my wife and I decided to come back home to teach high school and college classes, and to get my Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University.
I have over 20 years of experience teaching in school settings in New York and Phoenix. I have taught a range of classes, from middle schoolers learning how to change improper fractions to mixed numbers to graduate students deciding whether linear or non-linear regressions would best model their data set. In addition to tutoring friends and family, my favorite experience helping people learn has been helping my own four kids with their homework.
One of the things I love about mathematics is that every concept, no matter how abstract it is, has some connection to the world we live in and work that people do. When I work with learners, my first task is to find what they are interested in – the things they want to do and their passions. Without fail there are connections between their interests and the concepts they are studying. Finding those connections makes learning fun.
I have been singing all my life, and am lucky to have a very musically talented family. In addition to performing together, we love to go hiking and seeing who is the best at the next board game we try. (Currently my daughter is on a win streak at Settlers of Catan). I competed in a lot of Academic Competitions when I was a kid, from Odyssey of the Mind to Speech and Debate to Academic Decathlon to the Science Olympiad, and I still do a little coaching in some of those events.
For Peak Academics, I offer mathematics tutoring to all grade levels, elementary through high school.
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