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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I'm your host, Daniel Avery.

And with me in the studio this week is Ash Skykeen, who tutors mathematics from home with their two-year-old child.

They love community organizing and helping neurodivergent students navigate math.

Ash, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me here, Daniel.

Thank you for briefly teaching me what an algorithm is. How involved would you say on a scale of

one to ten is your two-year-old in tutoring people on math? Is it like you use the kid to illustrate

principles of math, or is it just like they're there? It really varies from day to day.

Sometimes I will have her watching a Netflix show while I'm like hiding in the corner

trying to focus on my work.

But sometimes she'll be right in my lap and participating in the conversation.

And honestly, we've been doing that together since she was six weeks old and I came back

from parental leave.

She would just be in my

arms while I would be working on the whiteboard on Zoom in fall 2020. That was when she was born.

So she's been with me the whole time. Beautiful. I'm excited because basically our first question

is a math problem. So I found, come on, this is the closest I'm going to get to a math question. You can't, you can't look questioning at that. You can't be that hard on me. I guess you could say it's a math problem. Sure. He's got numbers in it. Yes. It does have numbers. I saw those. People don't usually ask me numbers based questions. This is absolutely the closest. We're going to get. I appreciate that you saved that one for me.

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