Introduction: My being in the old Mensa Register speaks for itself. However, not many people can break through the mental barriers that stand in the way of learning. People who have difficulty learning a specific subject (or any subject, for that matter) think in different terms than (from, if you're a purist) the norm, or from the teacher, usually. I can usually break through that. Math is so simple it's easy. If you can put two bricks together, you can build a wall. You have to build on the basics. Find what ones of the basics you've breezed past and you breeze back to where you should be, It's much the same for English. Integral Calculus is more conceptual and thus more difficult to break through. I eschew it. Certain disciplines, such as Quadratic Equations, will require some review on my part, as they are far in the past and few in number, but I have mastered them in the past and I can in the future. Just be aware that if you have reached the Quad. Eq. phase, you are probably good enough that you will not be asking me for help. And if you pick up what you have breezed over now, you will probably breeze through the rest and shine when you have to do QEs, assuming you even have to get that far. (That is probably the most difficult math discipline next to Calculus.) Feel good about yourself again; you can do it.
I haven't tried this yet. Let's see. When I've done things like this in the past, if the "student" is willing and cooperative, he will pick up what has discouraged him in the past. That is a really good feeling for the student and the tutor.
