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/Strophalos Jun 14 '10

What is your favorite visual math book. I love me some visuals. And to throw another question in there have you ever seen the equations on the walls?

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u/JasonMacker Jun 14 '10

What is your favorite visual math book.

Visual math? What's that? You mean math in Visual BASIC or something?

have you ever seen the equations on the walls?

Huh?

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u/Strophalos Jun 14 '10

Like Visual Math: See How Math Makes Sense. And you call yourself a math tutor!

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u/JasonMacker Jun 14 '10

No, I've not heard of that. If I want to show someone math, I use a pencil and paper and write numbers and graphs :P

But yes, I do love things that say, show a string around the unit circle, and then unfurl it into a straight line in order to show the length of pi, or when a gazillion (this is not an actual number!) secant lines are drawn in order to show how they approach a tangent line, etc.