The Mathematical Copilot
Mathematics can seem so confusing that you or your children might not think you can learn it. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and lost.
Do you ever wonder how best to learn or teach it?
Do you ever get stuck on one problem after another or get tired of all the seemingly meaningless rules?
Let us help you find playful ways to teach and learn mathematics. No anxiety. No intimidation. No being squashed.
Imagine the Possibilities:
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Your children finding no joy in mathematics, working through assignments the way they eat their vegetables.
Teaching your children mathematics that consists in following bland rules and meaningless formulas with no thinking or creative problem solving involved.
Coping with indifferent teachers who put you down and make you feel squashed, small, intimidated, and unable to do mathematics.
Your children are lost and left behind in their mathematics classes and you lack the expertise to discern what they need to know .
Not knowing how your children understand mathematics and how they learn best.
Tired of doing mathematics that lacks playfulness, imagination, creativity, and any connection to what you want to do in life, what you find meaningful.
The Benefits of our Premiere Packages
An initial consultation to determine your specific needs and gaps in knowledge and skills.
For students, on demand availability Sunday evening through Thursday evening to answer questions and provide brief but specific explanations.
Access to written material and other resources as they become available.
A comprehensive and personalized plan to address your goals and needs. A plan that evolves as your needs and skillset evolve.
Several hours per month to provide one on one in-depth instruction and tutoring.
Additional hours of one on one instruction available each month at a discounted rate.
Other methods of teaching and learning might not be working for you.
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Hourly one on one tutors might not have the sustained commitment to bond with you or your child and teach properly.
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Teachers, friends, and classmates are busy and not always available to help.
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Knowledgeable on-demand or hourly tutors aren't always available for more advanced subjects.
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With everything you have going on in your life, time is limited for self-study or to work with your child.
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The money you spend will more than pay off with future career advancement for you or your child.
A personal note from Glen
Hello, I’m Glen Meyer, an educator, consultant, writer, and philosopher living and working in Austin, Texas. Throughout my life I have discovered and rediscovered mathematics, working through its complexities and frustrations to find its puzzles, depths, surprises, and enticements, but also encountering its underside, its entanglements with power and systems of domination.
My goal here is to share and explore these discoveries and encounters with others through writing and teaching. Please feel free to have a look around and reach out.
I grew up in the Midwest and have an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Minnesota (with a specialization in the philosophy of science, including a minor in the studies of science and technology). I have worked in a variety of occupations: as both a high school teacher and a college professor, in artificial intelligence (as an ontologist, developing ontologies and designing inference paths), and, more recently, as a ratemaking property and casualty insurance actuary, both in private industry and in rate regulation. A little more than a year ago I left this last occupation to return to my true passions: teaching and writing.
I really am a client’s best kept secret. Learn more about me and all the services I offer.
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