I should like mathematics - I'm a community college math tutor and it is necessary overall - but it's something I would enjoy in moderation.
shareI found it fun but when the semester was over I was glad I had freedom from it. did some math for a business degree, statistics and a generic calculus courses.
But I didn't get the degree and ended up with tons of debt and an associates of arts.
what type of degree do you need to become a tutor?
shareTypically none, just demonstrated knowledge in a field. As a university student I tutored part time at the nearby high school. If we're talking about private tutoring, agencies strongly prefer someone with a degree specific to the subject.
shareI was a student tutor at the numerical mathematics institute of a technical university, while I had no degree but needed the extra money. Got the job by one of my answers at an exam. It happened to be a new but more efficient algorithm to a common problem. At first, my intention was to provide them with a highly counter-intuitive, but mathematically bulletproof solution - shorter than their's. The question was as boring as the obvious answer they were expecting to get.
I've realized the beauty and simplicity while I came up with it, but had no idea of its actual impact.
Fu(k) no.
shareI really get into a lot of science and mathematics makes a lot of the pseudoscience nonsense fall by the wayside quickly. I have to admit that I wish I would have learned more mathematics at a younger age.
shareI would never be able to teach it.
sharemath and calculus were the only subjects i really enjoyed in my high school days, and the only ones i was really any good at. not that i was was at the top of my class, but...i was in the mix. i always found working on math problems very satisfying. certainly more so than trying to read shakespeare, ffs.
i actually had a vague dream that i might like to get a degree in applied mathematics or some such thing, but a few years of hard drinking managed to send that notion packing.
I took several math classes as electives well after fulfilling the basic requirements because the department was host to many attractive female students.
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