Re:To show or not to show work
by seventhtiger on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:16AM
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I coach young people in other fields like public speaking so I have some skill in it. I use similar techniques.
The private tutors they've tried are actually math teachers. I think teaching a class is a very different skillset than tutoring.
According to my brother he came to the realization that an hour studying with me makes up for multiple hours with the tutors. I'm stubborn and authoritative when I coach, I challenge them and it takes me a lot of effort to butt heads with a teen, but I think they see the results.
Math is tough in that you don't get to enjoy it until mechanical concerns become an afterthought. So when my youngest sister, who initially didn't enjoy math, said "wow that felt good" about solving a problem I knew I was going somewhere.
I wouldn't read too much into it... there's often times other factors involved. Just because you are a sibling and not a parent might be reason enough, at some age, to prefer you; and by college, it may already be a habit.
(not sure about the "private tutor' part, have they actually tried that, and was the tutor ok? because normally that's what a kid would prefer, since he/she doesn't feel the need to challenge the tutor's authority. Maybe a really poor experience/ personality mismatch with one private tutor? ).