>tutoring someone in Math
>he keeps making mistakes even after I explain everything.
>feel exhausted after each session
Fuck me. I didn't know tutoring would be like this.
Tutoring someone in Math
Brayden Cooper
Cooper Wright
yeah, I've had students like that.
the thing that cheers me up is I get paid to do it. I don't really care if they learn it or not, they're the ones wanting lessons.
also if they're struggling, give them more simple problems to practice.
Adrian Myers
wow...
>kill yourself faggot
Thomas Baker
If they keep making the same mistake, then you're not explaining it well enough, or there's some other problem
Justin Brown
it's usually some other problem in life, they are distracted or cannot find time to sit down and do math.
John Sullivan
This. I have tutored many times and it is usually people who expect to understand it perfectly after my first explanation. They don't want to put in the effort and solve practice problems. On the rare occasion I get someone that really wants to learn, but their foundation in math is so shit that they can't really get far.
Justin Watson
Present problems first. Then teach them how to solve them. The brain is made for problem-solving.
Make sure they are studying AT LEAST 6 days a week, otherwise you are wasting time building something that gets destroyed the next day.
See how retarded they are: what is their IQ, can they pay attention at all (give them this test: nytimes.com
Make sure they DON'T ingest caffeine everyday. This is a common problem with students. Caffeine should be taken for tests, at very small doses.
Lucas Cook
The problem with most of my clients was a lack of proper fundamentals. I adhere to an unpopular philosophy: If you are in Differential Equations and have trouble completing the square, you should go relearn high-school algebra.
Mathematics is a highly conceptual field. Whether it is high-school algebra or abstract algebra, as long as you understand the conceptual framework underlying a topic, you will be able to solve 75% of the problems that will be thrown at you (unless it is Putnam or Millennial Prize).
Austin Lopez
why? tutoring can be very depressing and exhausting, money is a good motivation to keep you going.
I tutor up to college level. The main reason kids that age get distracted is relationship problems or a bad home situation.
I've tried tutoring some college levels for free (mostly CS students) and the main distraction for them is DOTA. Like you said, they didn't want to put in the effort to work on the practice problems I gave them, but they found the time for facebook and a couple of dota games. They expected me to pour the knowledge into their head.
David Anderson
Either you are bad at explaining or he is dumb. If you haven't already, try breaking it down even more and giving him something simpler to do. Maybe he didn't learn the fundamentals.
If it's the latter, it's ok, every once in a while you get one that just isn't going to get it. You do your best and hope that he gets a B or a C. Usually the parents (or the kid if they're in college) are cool with it if they see that you're doing your best.
Jonathan Miller
Ayyyy OP this picture is plastered all over my university website. Where do you attend?
Andrew Anderson
I'm at DeVry but I'm hoping to transfer to ITT Tech
Joseph Gomez
Nice. I go to Phoenix myself, but i'm not going to hate on your lower tier school
Hunter Nguyen
>wants to transfer to ITT Tech
....for what purpose?
Blake Perry
Just beat him with your dick
Josiah Phillips
OP, the way I see it is hopefully you find some enjoyment out of the presentation of the information. Some people will simply never understand certain things due to mental capacity or refusal to work on it on their own.
That's at least my policy regarding some basic Chemistry tutoring sessions I have held in the past. It's good practice since I have aspirations fr hopefully becoming a professor.
Keep fighting the good fight no matter the results.
Blake Adams
Primacy principle.
as a tutor you aren't teaching someone something for the first time, you are usually going over something the person got themselves confused about or misheard the teacher say in lecture.
Lucas Lewis
>not caring
>giving tips
pick one
Josiah Murphy
why not
Angel Foster
I tutored engineering students in physics for 3 years, OP. Sometimes there's just no help for the student.
Like when they were supposed to be learning Maxwell's laws, and I would try to teach them about the general consequences of Stokes' theorem and they just wouldn't care,
>Why are you teaching me about differential operators? I just need to solve this integral.
>me: Because my job isn't to do your homework. My job is to help you where you are weak, and if that means re-teaching you a year of calculus I'll do it, until my shift is over.
And they willingly showed up for tutoring too. It was offered by the college and sometimes being there meant a much tighter schedule. Yet still they weren't sufficiently prepared to learn.
Kayden Murphy
>that picture
so cute. it looks like a gay porno.
Logan Reyes
If you're tutoring just for the money you're a sack of vomit.
Gabriel Edwards
>nytimes.com
I just did it and I can say you have to be a special kind of retard for not getting it.
Caleb Powell
I'd bone either of them.
Ryan Baker
As a geology major I'd say you're doing gods work.
Sebastian Sullivan
A lot of people being tutored feel nervous during them in fear of making mistakes, this makes them obviously make a lot more mistakes. I myself find it more difficult to recall/do maths in front of people than if i'm on my own.
Not only that but since you study maths at a much higher level than them, you'll obviously be more familiar with maths than them so it would seem silly that they would make so many mistakes, even if at there own level they make a regular amount of mistakes.
Luke Powell
Who the fuck tutors just because they enjoy it?
Jayden Powell
Money is horrible motivation for tutoring, and I can assure you you're doing a shitty job if the only thing keeping you there is a paycheck.
Dominic Brown
>Measuring Your Disability
Carter Stewart
same here
do people really not get 100?
Samuel Wood
>Watching a friend trying to tutor.
>Keeps taking the student off on tangents but fails to explain the very basic fundamental concepts upon which the theory is based.
>Student doesn't learn dick and friend is confused about why that is but feels good that they got to talk about their "interesting" semi-related topic (even though the student understood very little of it).
Why do people throw money away on tutors like this?
Anthony Hall
I never said it's the only thing, just a thing that gets me through tedious lessons.
Cooper Reyes
How much do you guys charge to tutor?
Isaiah Kelly
it was a joke, friend.
Jacob Ward
>what is their IQ
That question would be too autistic