Wes Carroll Tutoring & Coaching Blog

Carol Dweck hits the nail on the head. You might think that "you're so smart!" is a good thing to say to someone. You'd be ...

Gentle readers: It's been a busy autumn.* The math team is doing quite well; we have 44 points out of 60 on the CAML moving ...

Just a quick announcement that Urban High School of San Francisco has started a math competition team this year, with yours truly as the coach ...

An interesting problem came up in conversation with a College Preparatory School freshman the other day, so I thought I'd share it with you: 100! ...

Hello from vacation! New York City, as it happens. I'm spending the summer emphatically not working, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy a little ...

As I see it, the issue that's missing here is this: a good teacher will use examples to illustrate a point, whereas a great teacher ...

...but it isn't that important.(But, just to put the plug in there, BodSAT.com is a good place to go if you're a superstar student and ...

This is the part of the current overarching financial picture that worries me most: parents simply unable to send their kids to college ...

I've thought for a long time that it would be great if math got the same treatment as sports. I've also thought that that is ...

Yes, one can always take anything too far. But if I had to guess, I'd say that the current average levels of discipline, structure, and ...