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I have the best of both worlds, I think, because I love sports and math at the same time. My favorite sport is baseball, and I played for my middle school and high school teams. Recently, I've developed an interest for the math of sports, so I study up on topics such as sabermetrics, which is the use of statistics and math to become more efficient at the game of baseball. Sabermetrics is responsible for things such as Moneyball and the development of defensive shifts. This type of math is appeal

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Hi! My name is Wylie and I'm a junior at maryland/columbia">columbia">maryland/columbia">columbia-university">maryland/columbia">columbia">maryland/columbia">Columbia University, studying mathematics and statistics. Before that, I was a student at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Every semester that I have been in college, I have been on the Dean's List. I'm not quite sure what I would like to be doing in a few years time, but graduate school, teaching or working in the financial field appear to viable options for my future.

I have been a manhattan">tutor for the past year, working with a group of inner-city, low-income high school students, specializing in the areas of math, economics, and physics. It has been a rewarding, and at times challenging, experience, but one that I have truly enjoyed. Working at Frog manhattan">Tutoring gives me the opportunity to continue working with students as I build up my teaching abilities.

Growing up, I was always good at math, but never embraced it - or school for that matter - as readily as I should have. Math, I have realized, can be difficult as it has a tendency to be very dry and formulaic, so I try to make it as conceptual and theoretical as possible. Grasping concepts rather than just plugging in equations is, to me, the best way to learn math, so that a student can conquer any and every challenge thrown his or her way.