Hi, my name is Lana

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and I'm a math tutor here at Lesson Pal.

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If you look at my biography, you'll see

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that I have a doctorate in electrical engineering decades

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of consulting, um, experience in my research company.

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So what am I doing here? And the reasons very simple.

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I love working with kids and I love, um, helping

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and teaching people of all ages.

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I've been like this ever since I can remember.

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Um, up until I was a TA in college.

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And then later I became a mom to two boys.

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And some of my fondest memories aren't professional,

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but it's being with my kids, hanging out with them,

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teaching them things and helping them with their homework,

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including math.

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And I help them from the beginning.

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Up until they finished

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and passed their Calculus BC exams,

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I would help their friends and I volunteered at the school.

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But when they graduated, that part

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of my life unfortunately ended and I really missed it.

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So I started doing volunteer work, like science outreach,

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reading partners and the tech interactive.

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And I also became a math tutor.

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I now have over six years of

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tutoring math from kindergarten up

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until partial differential equations.

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And I love it all and I do it all.

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My basic philosophy when I teach is not

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to lecture the kids and the students.

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That's the teacher's job.

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I wanna work one-on-one with them

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and have them do all the work.

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And I check them

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and I ask them why something is,

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why they're doing something,

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why they made certain conclusions,

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and just give them a little nudge when they need it.

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But my main thing is I want them to understand,

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understand the math.

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Once they do, we practice, practice, practice.

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'cause that's the best way to master math.

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And once you do that, then it's gonna help you in all kinds

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of other subjects, engineering, all the sciences, any career

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that you choose in a STEM field.

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So I invite you to, um, book a trial lesson

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and I hope to see you here.

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Bye.

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