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Pooja: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...to help some of his freshman students. It became an incredibly rewarding experience, for these students that I stuck with for nearly the entire school year were able to boost their grade up and feel more confident in their work. Some of my hobbies include playing tennis, hiking, and watching reruns of "Malcolm in the...
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University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus - Current Undergrad, Neuroscience
David: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...learning from each one. I have Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, and postdoctoral work. I have worked in the biotech industry for over 10 years, and have published papers in diverse fields that have been cited over 1400 times (Research gate). My main strengths are AP, general and advanced biology, cell and molecular biology, and general...
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Stanford University - Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University - Doctor of Philosophy, Biochemistry
Rishi: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...junior year, and during my senior year I went on to take college-level math in a dual-enrollment program with Carnegie Mellon University. I just finished my freshman year at Yale, during which I took an accelerated course on Vector Calculus and Linear Algebra. In addition to mathematics, I am also studying music at Yale, where...
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Yale University - Current Undergrad, Mathematics & Music
Graham: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...highly on the SAT Math section and Math II subject test. I also excelled in Calculus 1 and 2 during my freshman year at CMU. I have previous experience in tutoring from teaching introductory Algebra to a class of 30 students entering high school. Due to a busy semester, I am unavailable during the week...
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Carnegie Mellon University - Current Undergrad, Mechanical Engineering
Joanna : Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...to explain things as simply as possible. It is also important to recognize the signs of confusion. Students do not always tell you when they are confused (and sometimes they themselves do not think they are confused), and so it is vital to maintain interaction with students and to continually check for understanding. I thoroughly...
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University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus - Bachelor in Arts, Philosophy and Italian
Carnegie Mellon University - Master of Science, Logic and Computation
Philip: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...last three years of high school in a public school and am thus well acquainted with the various forms of standardized testing. When I'm not studying I like singing and theatre, reading, playing the piano, climbing trees and doing anything outdoors. I have been tutoring Spanish at CMU for a year now, and am also...
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Carnegie Mellon University - Current Undergrad, International Relations and Politics
Sai: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...I am excited to take on my role as a lifelong learner - I know how empowering education and just figuring things out can be. I want to help students learn to love, too, for that precise reason. Be it scoring higher on a standardized test or needing help through a class they are taking,...
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University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus - Bachelor of Science, Neuroscience
Allie: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...about music in literature, I am incredibly aware of the importance of listening. I believe that it is important to listen to what students say and don't say to help them identify their goal and process to successfully reach that goal. In addition to editing 1,000+ pages of undergraduate student writing each semester, I have...
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Chatham University - Bachelors, English and Cultural Studies
Duquesne University - Masters, English Literature
Beth: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...manner. As a life-long learner, I have a passion for teaching and rely on my educational background in neuroscience and psychology to help develop individualized learning and tutoring plans to help students accomplish their academic and personal goals. Whether it be elementary and middle school math or college level anatomy and physiology, I review and...
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Regis University - Bachelor of Science, Neuroscience and Psychology
David: Brentwood tutor
Certified Tutor in Brentwood, PA
...Physics, and have a few years of experience tutoring in both of those fields. I always enjoy helping students in math, and helping them discover that just because they don't consider themselves a "math person" doesn't mean they can't do well. My goal is never just to make students able to pass an exam, but...
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University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus - Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
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Brentwood is a borough located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The borough is a part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. Brentwood has a population of roughly 9,600. It is positioned between the Great Lakes and the windward side of the Allegheny Mountains. It's plentiful precipitation supports its lush vegetation.
The Brentwood Borough School District serves the borough's public schools with its enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. Brentwood High School is the only secondary institution in Brentwood. If you are interested in private test prep instruction, Brentwood tutoring is a great solution. It is available either online or in-home. If you're looking to attend colleges in the area, be sure to check out the Community College of Allegheny County, the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. A good way to take steps to try to get into the school of your choice is by using a private Brentwood, PA, tutor who can offer you expert test prep instruction and tutoring, either in-home or online.
The borough is home to several sites of interest, including the Brentwood Arboretum. Founded in 1997, the arboretum's collection ranges from red maple and dawn redwood to ginkgo and Japanese larch. There are several recreation areas located around the borough, such as Prospect Park, the South Hills Country Club, Orchard Heights Park, and Brentwood Park. Brentwood Park, located near Brentwood High, offers a playground, walking track, public pool, and several athletic fields. The spirited community hosts a Fourth of July parade and various charitable get-togethers. Brownsville Road is the community's neighborhood main street, featuring a variety of businesses, shops, and dining establishments. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is located roughly 10 miles north of Brentwood. Pittsburgh's population is an estimated 305,800. The city is known for its Gilded Age sites, such as the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The art museum hosts several galleries, including the Heinz Architectural Center. This gallery houses various works in architecture, landscape design, and engineering. There's also a library with numerous books, journals, and other related printed material. The city's three major league sports teams are the Steelers, Penguins, and Pirates, which compete in the NFL, NHL, and MLB, respectively.
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During this session, we started reviewing for her final, which will take place in a couple of weeks. We started from chapter 1 and reviewed topics such as writing algebraic expressions and equations, writing and solving ratios, identifying properties of integers and whole numbers, and graphing functions from equations. She understood the concepts well, except she still makes small mistakes while working out problems and she still struggles with word problems. I told her to do more practice problems to study and to especially focus on the word problems.
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The student and I spent our session today studying for his upcoming unit test in History. We picked up on his fourth page of notes, where we had left off previously (on Thursday), and reviewed the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Roman Empire. I was thrilled that the student seems not only interested in the material, but that he has outstanding recall abilities when he is engaged in a way that he can appreciate. On Thursday, we went over 12 factors that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, and today, he rattled all 12 back to me with absolutely no difficulty, despite admitting that he hadn't had a chance to review them since our previous session. We also discussed a list of primary documents that were suggested as test prep material by his teacher, and the author and significance of each document. We also identified key points within each document that might isolate the document from the other potential documents, in case his test included identifying the documents by a quoted passage. We concluded with some discussion about The Odyssey, which the student is continuing to read for English, and the prompt that he received for a probable in-class essay which centers around Odysseus' actions on the island of Helios. He seemed comfortable and familiar with either side of the argument, as well as the text, and (again) showed how engaged he was by initiating a comparison between the text and the 1997 movie version, which he happily showed me a scene from to prove his point.
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The student and I continued to work on 5th and 6th grade math concepts. Since her placement exam was today (Tuesday), we focused on practicing with concepts she might see on that exam. I tried to pick problem sets and concepts that were both familiar and unfamiliar to the student. To this end, we covered order of operations problems, setting-up basic expressions using variables, practice with percentages and solving for the variable. She handled these concepts well despite the fact that certain problems (as in solving for the variable) requires skipping many of the logical steps she will encounter as she goes further in her mathematics education. To ensure that the student remained confident about her exam, I broke down problems into short sets of rules (for example, if she sees a variable multiplied by a number, she knows that to get rid of the number, she must do the opposite function - that is, divide). I also talked to the student about test taking strategies - to answer the questions she knows, skip the ones she doesn't and always make sure to keep track of the questions she skips on her answer sheet! I also reaffirmed to her that in the end, this is simply a placement test and while she should always try to do her best and work hard, one placement test will not determine her mathematics future!
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Today, we reviewed some of the general principles of factoring quadratic trinomials as well as introduced a new kind of factoring. Initially, he had forgotten the steps necessary to factoring so I briefly reminded him by factoring an example. Afterward, he was able to correctly factor the problems from the work I had given him. Later, we looked at perfect square and difference-of-two-square factoring. This were less difficult for the student and he worked through them quickly. He was even able to use the concept to solve a perfect square trinomial where the variables were replaced with polynomials. Lastly, I introduced him to factoring trinomials where the highest term had a coefficient. He had not seen this before and was unsure how to go about factoring them. I presented a few different methods he could use. Once he understood that, he was able to work through several of the problems using the methods given to him.
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The student is working on hyperbolas in class. We went over different approaches to the problem. We are really working to make sure that he reads all directions on his homework and shows all of his work.
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We first went over the remaining problems that the student had missed on his packet. Afterwards, I had him complete the assessment that was given about 2 weeks ago. On the first attempt he received a 67%. On the second try he earned a 87%. This is a marked increase and I believe that the student has shown great gains in our sessions.
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