Math with Andrew M.

I am both experienced and patient as a teacher. I have clear memories of what it was like to learn new things for the first time in math, and so I empathize with the student who may be wrestling with new and different ideas. I began teaching back in college in the early 1980s, when I was a teaching assistant for calculus. My own calculus professor suggested that if I really wanted to find out if I understood the subject, that I should try teaching it! The experience was an eye opener, and a wonderful one at that. Since then, I have taught both privately (one-on-one) and in the classroom at a wide array of levels, and I genuinely enjoy teaching. Math classes I have taught range from pre-algebra all the way through calculus and beyond. A particularly gratifying teaching experience has been mentoring my own daughter through her math education. She has thus far flourished, and has taken up Data Theory as her major at UCLA, where she is currently a freshman. I have a Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, and have been a practicing engineer for over 25 years. I was driven into engineering in no small part because I loved math. Shortly after completing my Ph.D., I had the pleasure of teaching for a year at Tulane University, where I taught applied physics classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I teach because I enjoy it immensely. I get to share some of the perspective that I've gained as a practicing engineer, and watch as the "light comes on" for my students.