I am looking for a MA 426 Tutor with good communication skills and is reasonably priced.(10-20) hr

If interested please P.M.

2/3/2006 2:15:15 PM

i doubt you'll find too many people on here for Analysis. you might be better off studying with classmates or asking your prof or the math dept for a reference. you never know though, you might find somebody on here

2/3/2006 3:21:28 PM

classmates are nice.

It's a shame I have no friends.

2/4/2006 12:40:06 AM

a girl taking higher level math? Either ugly, asian, or both.

2/4/2006 2:38:43 AM

actually, most of the girls who were in my classes or that i know have taken upper level math classes were for the most part pretty good looking.

[Edited on February 4, 2006 at 10:57 AM. Reason : i can think of at least 10]

2/4/2006 10:56:24 AM

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"I am looking for a MA 426 Tutor with good communication skills and is reasonably priced.(10-20) hr"

try $30 an hour an you might find something. 10-20$ for real analysis II that's funny. Maybe try Ha 244 and hope we have time to help you, that's your best bet.

2/5/2006 5:58:34 PM

Wonderful attitudes in this thread all-around.

berry, try posting some flyers around Harrelson asking for some assistance. Also try talking to your instructor ... they may recommend some of their own graduate students to assist you. I'd personally recommend classmates over a tutor and finding a consistent time of week for everybody to meet and study.

$30/hr equates to roughly $60k a year. I'd love to know a graduate student or university postdoc who makes that. 10-20 sounds a little more realistic.

[Edited on February 5, 2006 at 6:17 PM. Reason : .]

2/5/2006 6:14:44 PM

analysis is hard as balls. just become a regular attendee of office hours.

i empathize.

2/5/2006 11:23:54 PM

Is this real analysis? You could always try looking at other texts in the library, I found looking at proofs in books helpful because once you get the general idea down of how the proofs usually pan out it becomes a lot easier to do yourself. Little tricks like triangle inequality and stuff. My professor said when he was an undergrad he stopped taking notes, just paid attention in class and tried to prove every theorem in the book by covering up the proof below and trying to work it out himself. He was really smart though.

I think the math department website lists tutors and what classes they're willing to tutor for, I would guess someone does 426.

2/5/2006 11:47:37 PM

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"$30/hr equates to roughly $60k a year. I'd love to know a graduate student or university postdoc who makes that. 10-20 sounds a little more realistic."

I know a postdoc in math who makes 50k. Anyway, $30 an hour is a very typical rate for tutoring among the graduate students in math that I know. Sure, it'd be nice if you could line up enough appointments to make 60k tutoring, but that is nearly impossible around here. Ma 426 is hard course and the supply of tutors who are capable of tutoring you is pretty small. Most of the people that could do it are to busy with research and so on... Hence the high price.

10-20 is a reasonable rate for an undergrad. tutor, very seldom are you going to find an undergrad.
with a firm enough grasp of ma 426 to tutor it.

Anyway, like I said before, bring your questions to ha 244. Several math grad. students are much more lkely to be able to answer your questions. Better yet follow ^'s advice, you need to learn it for yourself, it is a major course. Granted, it can be pain.

2/6/2006 10:17:24 AM

As a PhD student in the math department, I can tell you that ~$30/hour is the going rate for math grad students doing private tutoring, whether it's for a 400-level course, or just calculus.

Incidentally, some local high school teachers are now getting $35-40/hour for private tutoring.

2/6/2006 11:35:24 AM

Thank you for the suggestions. I think working with classmates and visiting HA 244 would be better suited for me than private tutoring. Especially when I only have a few nitty picky things to clean up with my proofs. Again thanks for the suggestions.

2/6/2006 1:45:14 PM

damn... MA 425 kicked my ass!!

2/9/2006 12:57:43 PM