Alexander Mathematics and Physics Tutoring

Today we hope that you eat until you burst, laugh until you cry, & make great memories with the people who mean the most to you.

Merry Christmas from the Alexander Tutoring family to yours! Wishing you all a wonderful holiday 🎄

Unpopular opinion: Dyscalculia isn't real.

If you have been diagnosed with Dyscalculia, I'm NOT saying your struggles aren't real, they certainly are. But it's the result of an outdated math curriculum that has failed you.

We believe Dyscalculia is the result of unmastered math foundations left unaddressed for too long, which culminates into being traumatized by higher level math. Rather than address the issue at it's core, we label it a learning disability and remove responsibility for learning core math foundations.

It's not your fault, PURPOSE has been totally left out of the curriculum. Had we started with discovering what your student is most passionate about (sports, art, music, history, etc) and then teach how math will EMPOWER their PURPOSE, you tap into your students infinite well of attention and learning potential. That's how we do it at Alexander Math & Physics Tutoring.

I could be wrong, how about we put it to the test? Comment below to receive a Risk-Free trial lesson with your Dyscalulia student, and we'll Transform their relationship with Math in just one hour.

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This is the remains of a supernova, or a star that reached the end of its life and exploded. A star is a balance between two forces, the force of nuclear fusion in the core pushing outward, and gravity pushing inward. When these forces are balanced, you have yourself a star. Hydrogen gas is compressed under its own weight in the core of the star to extreme pressure. The molecules are moving so fast under this pressure that they collide and “fuse” to create a hydrogen bomb.

It’s really hard to get protons to fuse because they have positive charge and repel. The only way you can overcome this force of repulsion is to expose them to extreme pressure, which heats them up, and heat is really just code for molecules moving really fast. If the protons move fast enough they can overwhelm the repulsive force and collide. Boom. You have yourself a nuclear explosion pushing outward.

You expand until the force of gravity inward is equal to the explosive force outward. Hydrogen gas (with one proton in the nucleus) falls at a controlled rate into the core of the star where the pressure is high enough to ignite fusion, resulting in helium (two protons in the nucleus).

So what happens when you run out of hydrogen? Explosive force outward goes bye bye, gravity is still there, so you collapse. That is until the pressure gets even higher than before, at which point it’s hot enough to fuse 3 helium atoms (two protons each) to get Carbon (6 protons), and the nuclear fire continues even hotter. This is where elements come from.

You’re mostly made out of Carbon so you can thank stellar evolution for that. This process of running out of fuel, then burning the next element continues until you get iron (if you’re a big enough star), which is the end of the road for the star. So how do we get all the elements heavier than iron? Supernova, which is what you’re looking at.

Once all the fuel is burned, the force of gravity implodes the star with such force that the remaining elements fuse together to get the heavier elements in one spectacular explosion.

Did you catch the aurora borealis last night? A large solar storm that is currently happening is making the northern lights visible in the skies at much lower latitudinal locations in North America than normal. You can catch it again tonight so be on the lookout!
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Repost: - Image description: A window from the Dragon Endeavour, docked on the ISS, peers over Earth. A marbling of clouds is seen from below a vivid green aurora; shades of magenta hover above it in a distance. In contrast, the left half of the window is lit in blue.⁣
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Credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick⁣
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