AJ Tutoring blog - The Learning Curve

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and spring is in full bloom! This means that Spring Break is just around the corner and Summer Break is right on its heels. While we all could use some R’N’R school breaks are not the time to sleep on academics. It is unfortunately not the time to ...

This is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Recommender: Jessica Embrey Our two protagonists, Red and Blue, are rival agents who travel through time to ensure the future success of their faction. Each chapter describes a mission that is ...

The 13 Clocks James Thurber Recommender: Lee Miller This short children's novel is pure pleasure, and not of the guilty sort, given its author's literary bona fides. Thurber's prose borders on poetry, and his love of the beauty and weirdness of the English ...

We will explore names and reality in mathematics and science. Roman numbering systems are good for bartering and trade, but only the adoption of the Arabic number system with its number zero allowed the birth of modern mathematics. Zero is the neutral element of addition and subtraction and ...