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Going Back to School -> How much $$$ for calculus tutor?

bob4432

bob4432

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i need to take calculus, never did in the past. never finished my degree 🙁 need to go back and salvage what credits i can. i will need to take calculus and i haven't done math for school in a long time (5+ years), so one semester i will probably just take calculus and get a tutor instead of working up to it, i will just jump in. how much do tutors usually cost?
 
Yeah, $20/hour is probably pretty typical. I used to charge $10-15, but it was a pretty small school. A lot of places do offer tutoring/help sessions for free, so check that out.
 
after looking over things, how much hard is MAT 270 CALCULUS WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY I vs MAT 260 TECHNICAL CALCULUS I? i will just obsess with the this one class for a semester and 270 looks more versatile than 260....
 
Originally posted by: bob4432
after looking over things, how much hard is MAT 270 CALCULUS WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY I vs MAT 260 TECHNICAL CALCULUS I? i will just obsess with the this one class for a semester and 270 looks more versatile than 260....
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270 will prolly be a little more theoretical and technical will focus more on the practical such as cables between towers, optimization of space etc...

Calc with AG will proabably be more challenging in terms of simply mathematically symbolic problems wil lthe technical class will probably focus on word problems.

jsut a guess.
 
Originally posted by: bob4432
after looking over things, how much hard is MAT 270 CALCULUS WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY I vs MAT 260 TECHNICAL CALCULUS I? i will just obsess with the this one class for a semester and 270 looks more versatile than 260....
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I"m just guessing here, but maybe Technical calculus is business calculus, so lots more application to business, and story problems.

I took calculus w/ analytic geometry is what I took, and it was calculus designed for engineers, so less business-story type problems...rather, you just do a bunch problems, like find derivative of this, of that.....
 
Originally posted by: bob4432
i need to take calculus, never did in the past. never finished my degree 🙁 need to go back and salvage what credits i can. i will need to take calculus and i haven't done math for school in a long time (5+ years), so one semester i will probably just take calculus and get a tutor instead of working up to it, i will just jump in. how much do tutors usually cost?
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Best of luck.

Calc was the reason I didn't finish College 20+ yrs ago too.

 
I got paid $8/hour to tutor engineering classes in our tutoring center. As long as you beat that, you should be able to find a tutor.
 
Where are you? I know a really good calc tutor. Most schools have tutors available, or at least have a list somewhere of who helps.
 
i am in AZ.

maybe i will take the equivalent at the community college level (mat220) and pay less for the class and hopefully for the full time tutor i am about to employ....
 
Originally posted by: DaWhim
do you really need a tutor for calculus? calc 1 right?
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yep, it has been years and i really don't like math. if i do mat270 then that would take care of the math i need for many different programs of study, i just want to do this one time, a semester of pure hell...

 
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