Tutoring calculus, your students will need to know this. The tutor introduces it. Once a calculus student learns the chain rule, they need to use it virtually all the time. It’s like learning to read when you’re a kid: once …
The tutor continues about the phenomenon of half life and one of its well-known applications. In my post from yesterday I introduced the topic of carbon dating and the principles that make it feasible. Today I’ll give a few more …
Tutoring high school math, you see this a few times each semester. The tutor shows an example. Suppose you get asked a question like the following: Example: Simplify √(0.225) Unless you have one of those new-style calculators, perhaps the WriteView …
Tutoring high school statistics, some of my students use the TI-83 Plus. The tutor shows one way to find the mean, median, and standard deviation on it. Of course, to find the mean, median, or standard deviation of a list …
The tutor first encountered the TI-83 Plus back in the 90s. Tutoring math, some of my students are allowed to use it. The TI-83 Plus is, to my mind, more like a computer than a calculator. Most of my students …
Tutoring calculus, this topic is of importance. The tutor is happy to introduce implicit differentiation. Implicit differentiation might come up a few weeks into the semester. It’s a nice technique that enables the student to take derivatives of functions not …
The tutor admits he should know more about these conversions. In this article, US measures are in focus; UK ones will be considered in a coming post. Recently I was asked about conversions between mL, US fl. oz, cup, quart, …
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Tutoring some high school math courses, statistics is prominent. The tutor introduces an important definition. Statistics focuses on the mean and the standard deviation. But why is that? The reason is that while most phenomena follow a normal distribution, …
The tutor continues to find handy features on the Sharp EL-520W. Today: probability associated with the normal distribution. The Sharp EL-520W just keeps on giving. Sometimes I wonder, “Will it do that?” Usually, it turns out that it does. Relating …
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When the tutor was in high school, a course called Consumer Education was mandatory. The beautiful, energetic high school students of today will, sooner or later, be workers. They will gain one kind of freedom at the expense of another. …