We often hear that Mira Costa High School students struggle most with chemistry, Geometry, and Algebra, and their parents have trouble finding a helpful tutor. We’d like to offer our help to those parents in need of finding a great tutor because our staff is local to the South Bay, and many have graduated from Mira Costa.

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Students of all ages often struggle with math because they often do not know the steps it takes to become a successful math student. I don’t believe that students struggle with math because they are “math-illiterate”, as my 6th grade Pre-Algebra teacher once said about me to my parents during a parent-teacher conference. Little did she know that I would eventually grow up to become a math-whiz. All it took were these rather simple, yet highly effective steps: (click on “read more” to find out)

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Science most definitely should not be handled by the faint of mind. People need to understand that the difference between three-dimensional and two-dimensional is the number of axis. Any two-dimensional (2-D) object is defined by a “x” and “y” axis , where as any three-dimensional (3-D) object is defined by a “x”, “y”, and “z” axis. In simpler terms, a 2-D object has length and width, whereas a 3-D object has length, width, and height, therefore giving it volume.

Physicists believe there are anywhere from 10 to 26 physical dimensions, each discretely chosen from the patterns of atomic string vibrations. How would you explain the 10th dimension to someone? Perhaps the way to understand something abstract is through an analogy. Instead attempting to explain the concept of 10 dimensions through scientific terms, I will first attempt to explain how we relate to 2-D objects through actions in the 3rd dimension, and then relate the 3rd and 4th dimension together. I really hope that you are able follow along since I think this is one of the most fascinating physical characteristics of our world, and very few people understand the concept of multiple dimensions. Well, here we go!

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