Jean Smiley is a private tutor, mother, and author based in Ventura County, California. Both of Mrs. Smiley’s children graduated from Princeton University, and her hundreds of students have gone on to similar success at prestigious universities and colleges across the nation.

Her book Ask Mrs. Smiley is a compilation of the most common problems your student will face in the classroom along with the time-proven methods that have made Mrs. Smiley one of the most respected and constantly busy tutors in Southern California.

Ask Mrs. Smiley tackles such topics as memory development, the often dreaded math facts, multiplication. division, fractions, decimals, the easy way to master the metric system, reading, writing, critical thinking, creative thinking with a smile, AND MUCH MORE.