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John Mcmurry

Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 tutor

... 21 hours tutored
location Danville, CA
education University of California - Santa Cruz
calendar 3 students
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About John

I am a Physics B.S. Alumnus of UCSC who finished working on research into dark matter with neural nets. I transferred from Diablo Valley College (DVC, a community college) in 2018.
While I was there I was a strong promoter and advertiser for the MESA program and tutored with the chemistry lab, MESA students, and the satellite campus’ tutoring lab.

My approach, which aims to both fix the issues in understanding, and instill confidence in my students, has proven to have a 94% success rate, with average grade improvement of 18% points.

Only one student in 6 years of tutoring has experienced insufficient success, which he himself accredited to lack of any understanding on the prior class’ material and only 3 weeks of tutoring.

I appreciate knowing how much a student improves with me and greatly desire feedback so I can improve my tutoring and tailor the experience to the individual. I will probably start by asking you how you study, etc. (don’t be afraid to say you don’t if that’s the case!) so I can understand how you best learn and aim to teach in that manner.

I look forward to working with you, and hope to help you succeed!

Education

University of California - Santa Cruz

Bachelors

Physics (Astrophysics)

2021

Diablo Valley College

Associate

Japanese

2018

Subjects

Math

Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Common Core
Calculus
Differential Equations
Elementary Math
Linear Algebra
Logic
Prealgebra
Precalculus
Probability
Statistics
Trigonometry

English

High School Level English
College Level English

Science

Astronomy
Chemistry
Microbiology
Physical Science
Physics

Language

Japanese

Computer

Python
Linux

Other

ADD/ADHD

Music

Trumpet

Athletics

Baseball

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Working with John was great

2 years ago
Brandon B. reviews John Mcmurry
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