Tutoring math, interest and inflation do come up, though not often enough. To all my financial readers: hang on to your hats! When I earlier talked about inflation and interest here, I mentioned the rule of thumb that, generally, interest hovers around …
As an English tutor, I’ll share a definition I learned in elementary school. I had no idea it was controversial. I remember my spelling text from grade three – yes, it was a textbook. Each week had a new list …
Tutoring math, you might be asked about statistics, in which expected value is an early topic. In many everyday situations, the expected value is equal to the mean, aka the average. The difference is more in definition than in practice. Expected value involves probability, whereas mean …
Tutoring math 12, exponential growth is “always on my mind.” Years ago, I used to read the Economist. Eventually I became too busy to keep up with it, but I always enjoyed it when I could. One of the last …
Recalling the 70s and 80s, the math tutor proposes a nostalgic premise for your coffee break. Inflation eats away at your money. Right now, inflation is very low; it has been since the late 90s. However, in the 70s and 80s …
As a math tutor, you teach and review this method constantly. Back in May, I began a series of posts about factoring polynomials. To refresh the topic, you can check here, here, and here. Factoring polynomials is a make-or-break skill …
In BC, 75% of francophone families are exogamous. Exogamy refers to the marriage of someone from a certain culture, to a spouse from outside that culture. From the francophone perspective, an exogamous family has one parent with French as the …
As a math tutor, you encounter this topic often – especially with students in vocational training. Many ways exist to tackle percents. However, the advantage of the cross multiplication method is its usefulness in virtually any situation involving them. If …
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When you tutor French, a student might ask how to produce the accents on an English keyboard. Here are a couple of options: On a Microsoft product, every French accent has its own Alt+(4 digit code). For instance, this ç …
While enjoying this surprisingly fine summer, the math tutor recalls a definition. When I was a kid, I read in one of my math texts (it might have been grade six) that a “perfect number” is one whose factors (except itself, of …