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MIke

Bachelors, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About Me

I grew up living around the world: Tripoli, Quito, and various states. I have a degree from MIT and spent 25 years at Intel in a number of positions. My hobbies are playing the piano, hiking, reading, bridge and bowling (yes, bowling!). I enjoy talking about anything and will often make stuff up just to keep the conversation going. I started tutoring back in the 90's in a program called Start Making A Reader Today (SMART). I found some computer programs that did alphabet and word recognition with animation. I also worked in an after school tutoring program for high school students. It was a melding of tutoring and mentoring, trying to get some at-risk students into college by improving their grades. I like math and physics, so much so that I tried to teach myself string theory. No luck there, it is a much harder nut than you might think.

Education & Certifications

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelors, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Test Scores

SAT
Math
755
Verbal
745

Q&A with MIke

Keep trying until you get it right. Watch out for frustration. Don't introduce more material than the student can handle. How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension? Back off to some simpler material without being obvious about it. Find the level of competency and build from that.

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