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author: peter poer

peter poer
peter helps make sure magoosh students have the best possible content. a proud arizona wildcat and teach for america alum, he worked as an instructional coach before getting an mba at berkeley’s haas school of business. he is passionate about student achievement and educational equity. also prime numbers. peter enjoys cooking, running (slowly), and going to bed comically early.

  • ap calculus: the difference between a graph and a function?

    did you know that a graph of a function f is not the same as the function itself? it might seem like there is clearly a difference, but sometimes it’s hard to articulate into words. we have spoken about the definition of a function. simply put, it’s a rule that transforms one real number into…

  • 5 sat math tricks every student should know

    math can be tricky. here’s your chance to turn the tables and apply these easy-to-apply tricks that will let you rule math as opposed to let math rule you.

  • ap calculus: computing the antiderivatives of functions and polynomials

    warm-up: keeping with the theme of volume of solids of revolution, try this multiple choice question, which should need only understanding of the geometric meaning of the definite integral as a measurement of volume. question: a solid is generated by revolving the region enclosed by the function , and the lines x =2, x =3, y…