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Daniel: Port Chester tutor
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...working with people and wish to one day specialize in geriatrics. I have taught chess and English to young children and tutored children from foster care for two years to improve their literacy skills. I plan to work as a Teacher's Assistant for Physics at SUNY Purchase this upcoming Fall, but I am happy to...
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Boston College - Bachelor in Arts, Psychology
Gabriela: Port Chester tutor
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I'm a rising junior at Harvard College. I study African American Studies with a secondary in Women's Studies and I am pursuing a language citation in Spanish. I aspire to one day go to business school. When I am not doing work, I can typically be found reading, writing, or dancing.
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Harvard University - Current Undergrad, African American Studies
Margarita: Port Chester tutor
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...students in a variety of subjects. I have been tutoring students since I was in 7th grade, and my favorite subject to tutor is math. My family is originally from Russia, and I grew up with a very strong and traditional math background. I always find teaching math to students to be gratifying, and I...
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Nicolas: Port Chester tutor
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...helping people prepare for the LSAT as well as the SAT and the ACT. I have really enjoyed my experience assisting students in test preparation. In my experience, students first approach tests in an ad hoc fashion, and often with a fair bit of trepidation and hesitancy. I find it tremendously satisfying to help students...
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Duke University - Bachelor in Arts, Philosophy
Lexi: Port Chester tutor
Certified Tutor in Port Chester, NY
...plans to suit an individual student's needs and interests, keeping in mind that the best I can do for any student is to engage them with the material and help them develop self-motivation. I am, admittedly, challenging and will push you not just to get the right answer, but to understand the material at hand....
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Princeton University - Bachelor in Arts, Politics, Near Eastern Studies, Arabic
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Nicholas: Port Chester tutor
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...have tutored for the past 7 years at levels ranging from middle school to college. Additionally, I have been a high school teacher of both Spanish and French for the past 2 years. I am trained in foreign language pedagogy and know how students can best acquire foreign languages, and I have spent time implementing...
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University of Delaware - Bachelors, Spanish Education
Donald: Port Chester tutor
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...practical solutions. As a trainer and pre-sales engineer, I co-wrote a tutorial, created class materials, and made many technical presentations about "leading edge" software, and so became skilled at explaining complex concepts. My work in QA reinforced my obsession with quality and gave me a good eye for seeing and diagnosing errors, which applies to...
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Cornell University - Bachelors, Chemical Engineering
Stony Brook University - Masters, TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language)
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Derek: Port Chester tutor
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...children and helping them with their homework. We accomplished what we needed to in a lighthearted but timely fashion which kept them focused and engaged throughout the class. With my background in math, I'll get you to where you need to be in your studies and help prepare you for the next level.
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Fairfield University - Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
Columbia University in the City of New York - Current Grad Student, Actuarial Science
Nick: Port Chester tutor
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...from Princeton University in 2014 with a degree in Economics. I truly love helping people learn! I believe it is important to break material in to small, understandable pieces at first to help students not feel so overwhelmed. I understand that sometimes students just need to find new ways to look at the material when...
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Princeton University - Bachelors, Economics
Andrew: Port Chester tutor
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...have also been helping friends with their class work since high school. I tutor mathematics and computer science, which I enjoy primarily because of the logic utilized in identifying the problems and applying the correct methods to solve them. In my spare time, I enjoy playing video games, reading, and participating in sports such as...
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Stony Brook University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Applied Math
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About Port Chester
Port Chester is a village located in Westchester County, New York. It is home to about 29,000 residents, and was once home to the earliest inhabitants of Mohegan Indians. Port Chester is commonly referred to as "The Restaurant and Entertainment Capital of Westchester County." It is located less than ten minutes away from Westchester County Airport, and many famous and recognized people were born and raised and/or currently live in this river front area. Some of them include: actor Lex Barker, journalist Arnold Diaz, NHL player Andre Roy, and celebrity wedding planner and reality show guru David Tutera.
Port Chester is served by the Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District. The top rated high school in Port Chester is Port Chester High School (PCHS). PCHS is a wonderful school. If you're currently attending this facility and find yourself confused in your classes or needing help preparing for big tests, expert online tutoring from Port Chester tutors will work to try to help you succeed in your test prep and coursework. Online or in-home tutoring in Port Chester might benefit anyone who wishes to have private one-on-one instruction for their test prep or school work. While there are no colleges or universities located directly in Port Chester, Purchase College at State University, Manhattanville College, and Fordham University are all located within miles from the center of Port Chester. These top schools might be a possibility if you reach out to private tutors in Port Chester, NY, for tutoring either in-home or online, to receive subject instruction or test prep.
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We covered: 1) explaining and calculating the average rate of change; 2) finding the equations of the tangent line and the normal line at a given point; and 3) calculating velocity and acceleration as rates of change.
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The student and I worked on collecting like terms. She understood the basics, but needed to gain confidence collecting when there were integers and powers involved. She also began keeping a math notebook to help her process the learning. I taught her how to make vocabulary foldables so she can quiz herself. Her vocabulary includes examples as well as non-examples. We also talked about the best way for her to take notes from a math text - she included step-by-step problems with the rationale written out for each step.
I graded her preassessment that she had finished for the day. She has already mastered decimals, adding and subtracting integers, writing equations from statements, basic percent problems, prime factorization, graphing coordinate pairs, and finding the area of triangles/quadrilaterals/complex shapes. She has minimal misconceptions with graphing inequalities, base 10 form, rates, and simplifying expressions. She will receive support around fractions, unit rates, unit conversions, and statistics.
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We worked on SAT math. The student had a good attitude. We went over geometry strategies about drawing pictures and determining geometric quantities in diagrams. We also worked on translating word problems to equations. The student is improving and has now seen most question types. Extra practice is a math and verbal section.
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I continued to work on concepts from algebra with Student A. I started by having her do a few more problems dealing with fractions and the distributive property, and after that she worked through her nightly homework. By now the rust is gone, and she shows impressive early mastery of the material. She could solve the homework problems on her own, with many of her questions having the form "Am I doing this right?" I am very happy to see that she has gotten good grades on homework so far. She struggles a bit with the tougher problems that I give her; at this point she only sees about two 'moves' ahead, easily handling a problem that asks e.g. given two fractions to find a common denominator and then add, but getting stuck if she is given two mixed numbers and asked to convert them into fractions, and then find a common denominator and add (even though she understands each step taken individually). This does not worry me one bit, and I expect that she will be able to solve more complex problems in good time. I want to encourage this development by giving her a few tougher (multi-step) problems during each session, especially since I get the impression that she has not been hugely challenged by the problems assigned so far, although she seems not always to realize this (hence "Am I doing this right?"--the answer almost always being "Yes!"). Building her confidence will be a point of focus moving forward.
With Student C I started by having him do a few more problems that require him, in effect, to convert a geometry problem into an algebra problem he can solve, and I am happy to see he is picking up what I am putting down. Like his sister, he has been able to handle assigned problems with relative ease, and I plan to take a similar approach to his development, having him do a few tougher problems during our sessions to supplement less challenging assigned material. He is very capable and rarely makes the same mistake twice. I would not be surprised if he wound up being one of the strongest students in his class. However, most of this session was devoted rather to a paper he had been given by his geometry teacher. The paper was a fairly difficult, even unorthodox assignment, which asked students to read the first three sections of Euclid's Elements (definitions, postulates and common notions) and assess whether they form a suitable foundation for modern mathematics. I was delighted to see this sort of thing in a high school math class, since the latter are generally not known for encouraging students to ask such deep questions about mathematics. I hope he got something out of writing this paper together and I look forward to working further on these important skills. It is not so simple to have him do a 'problem' in this area (compared to geometry), in particular one which is not too time consuming, so I will have to see if I can come up with bite size exercises that emphasize skills like organizing paragraphs, making arguments and using evidence.
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Today we started a world history project on the economic history of Mexico. We started by going over US-Mexican history, from the Mexican American War and land acquisition to NAFTA. We listed exports and imports and talked about the maquiladora system and how it contributed to US wealth in manufacturing sectors.
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The student and I began by reviewing his notes and filling in the missing summary from today's notes. Then we went over the difference between lateral and total surface area; what the area equations are for rectangles, triangles, and circles; and how to find the lateral and total surface area of a rectangular prism. I also taught him the material he will be using later this week on how to do the lateral and total surface area of triangular prisms and cylinders. I was very adamant about him showing all of his work so that as he progresses from 7th grade into his private school, he will be used to the large amount of writing required.
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