Nelson Tutors

09/03/2025

Welcome back to school! My recommendation for an inexpensive calculator for Grade 8-12 is the Casio fx-300ES plus.

These are allowed on exams (at SD8) and have a many features useful for high-school math:

* exact fraction math (with full simplification)
* calculates prime factorizations, GCD, LCM
* simplifies and rationalizes (most) square root expressions
* exact values for special trig angles (i.e. the unit circle)
* logarithms to any base (PreCalc 12)

These are all directly applicable to PreCalc 10-12 in British Columbia.

If you are looking for help with math (Grade 10 and up), I am actively looking for new students (in-person and virtual):

More info here:
https://nelsontutors.ca/bill-dickerson/

I keep a few units available for students, sometimes Walmart has them, and they are available on Amazon.ca here: https://a.co/d/gs8zzYe for less than $20.

Recommended for students studying science, math. Natural textbook display shows formula and results exactly as they appear in the textbook on a high contrast easy to read display with reoccurring decimal. Includes many templates. Functions include, fractions, trigonometric and exponential, radica...

10/10/2024

Hi Nelson friends! Lauren Fanthome and I have been working on a beginner French group lesson plan, and we’re looking to test it out with a small group over the next 5 weeks. If you’re interested in being our guinea pig 🐹, let us know—it should be fun!

04/21/2024

Grade 10 LVR Math Students have a test on polynomial factoring coming up on Tuesday, April 23!

Our next complimentary FOM10 Exam Review session (via Zoom) is Monday, April 22, at 7:00 PM (around 90 minutes)

Register here: https://nelsontutors.ca/fom10-s24/

I anticipate spending about 30 minutes to present review materials and then open the sessions up for Q&A.

When you register, an email address and phone number are required. Appointment confirmations, Zoom links and reminder texts will be sent to the email/phone you provide.

01/29/2024

Complimentary FOM10 Exam Review Sessions

Register Here: https://nelsontutors.ca/fom10-s24/

This term (Winter/Spring 2024) I am pleased to offer exam review sessions for LVR’s Grade 10 FOM Classes. These 90-minutes review sessions are offered online (via Zoom) to all interested students ($15 suggested donation). I’ve set the dates to correspond to the anticipated exam dates (which are subject to change).

I will spend about 30 minutes to present review materials and then open the sessions up for Q&A. Ideally, students can join on a computer or device with a large enough screen.

When you register, an email address and phone number are required. Appointment confirmations, Zoom links and reminder texts will be sent to the email/phone you provide.

Here are the dates of the review sessions:

Monday, February 19, 7:00 PM (Prime Factors and Exponents)
Monday, March 11, 7:00 PM (Trig)
Monday, April 22, 7:00 PM (Polynomials)
Sunday, May 12, 7:00 PM (Relations and Functions)
Thursday, June 6, 7:00 PM (Linear Relations/Functions)
Tuesday, June 18, 7:00 PM (Linear Systems and Final)

I hope to see you there!

01/01/2024

Happy New Year and much gratitude to all of my tutoring students and parents for 2023. Another year of doing what I Love: helping math and physics students (LVR, SD8, Selkirk and beyond). Thank you!

A few tutoring sessions are still available for the end of the term in January and for the next term (both in-person or virtual).

If you or your student need additional support in math/physics, find out more here:

https://nelsontutors.ca/

[Photo is of yours truly, at the top of Very High last summer, about to work on some gradient descent methods...]

08/19/2022

Got Math Problems? Individualized math help is available. Both virtual (Zoom) and in-person (Nelson, BC, in Rosemont neighborhood) tutoring session from a former university math professor. I'm booking now for the upcoming school year. Check me out or book directly at http://nelsontutors.ca. I've got years of experience helping students succeed in their math classes!

09/06/2020

French Tutoring for children and adults:

An entertaining and effective program for both individual learners and groups.

Visit us at http://nelsontutors.ca/frenchclub

04/15/2020

Visit our website to view details about our tutoring services and rates!
http://nelsontutors.ca

04/15/2020

Math Tutoring:

Bill supports students of all grades to achieve their best math learning results. Visit us at http://nelsontutors.ca

04/15/2020

Individualized Help:

Flexible individualized programs to support any student to meet their learning goals. Visit us at http://nelsontutors.ca