College and Beyond
Math Courses
Math Support for Business Courses
Are you taking a business course and getting bogged down in old math - percents, algebra, formulas, or your new calculator? Are the algorithms, charts, or schedules getting to you? Sometimes the trouble in a course is with the secondary material - you feel fine with the "business part" but not the math part. Perhaps you learn by talking and want company making up and discussing examples in order to really understand techniques. For example:
- Quantitative Methods for Managerial Decisions
- Production and Operations Management
- Principles and Methods of Business Research
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
Teacher Support
If you are in school to be a teacher, are starting out as a new teacher, or are newly (or suddenly) teaching mathematics or a new topic in mathematics, congratulations and welcome! I am available to offer you support. I can refresh your memory, make suggestions about varied approaches for concepts, and point out some of the common mistakes made by students.
Skill Improvement
You could be a college student who wants to really nail down basic derivatives, or you suddenly realize you have forgotten factoring, and it is being used quite a lot in the new course you are in. Or you may just wish you could do mental math in the workplace, or calculate percents for tipping. Here’s your chance to figure it out once and for all! Some examples:
- Mental Math
- Fractions, Decimals, Percents
- Equation Solving
- Lines and Graphs
- Factoring and FOIL
- Derivatives
Mathematics for Fun and Personal Enrichment!
In addition to skill building, I am available if you want to PLAY WITH math. We can work through a chapter on fair division problems to learn different ways to divide a cake, or a chapter on voting systems. Perhaps you want someone to spend an hour over coffee explaining what calculus is. Spend a couple sessions drawing and exploring fractals, or play with Mobius strips. Try your hand at back-of-the-envelope Fermi problems (About how many people could tour the Zakem bridge in Boston in one day?). There is a lot of math that never makes it into the typical math curriculum - come do something different!