Kobo Writing Life Podcast

Episode 90 of the Kobo Writing Life Podcast features an interview with Dennis Weichman, (AKA, Mr. W.), a retired math teacher who has brought his passion for teaching and tutoring into the digital realm with YouTube channel and study guides published to Kobo. Mr W. is interviewed by KWL Director Mark Lefebvre. In the interview, they discuss: How, after he retired in 1998, Dennis began tutoring students in math and he recognized something that was lacking for many of the people he was working with were enough examples. His compilation of those examples into a print workbook that was made available via a local school uniform company’s retail store The request from students for him to compile more math books for even more grades The various high school math subjects covered and how they are all based on the Ontario curriculum How he created math tutorial videos and the YouTube channel with more than 50 videos and 100,000 views from 150 different countries Advice for those who are either frightened of or are not