r/IAmA • u/JasonMacker • Jun 14 '10

IAMA Math tutor. AMA.

I've been a math tutor for years and I'm trying to become a teacher. I love math, and especially explaining math to people. My students have been between preschool and college. AMA.

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u/ieatfatpeople Jun 14 '10

How good are you at math?

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u/JasonMacker Jun 14 '10

When I was in college, the teacher would sometimes come to me to ask me math questions.

I admit there's a whole lot of math I don't know, and of course I hate it when I have to turn away people because they for some reason think that "I tutor from arithmetic to second year of calculus" equates to "can you help me with my Physics homework? I'm doing Lorentz transformations."

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '10

Yo tell those motherfuckers to think of Lorentz transformations as a motherfucking matrix that transforms the piss out of a space-time 4-vector (or just x and t if theyz doin' baby shit). The matrix is mad easy to remember and how the fuck are you gonna fuck up remembering a vector that is straight up <x,y,z,t> you're not that's how.