...This was until a high school math teacher challenged how I thought, learned, and studied mathematics. This profoundly impacted how I teach today. As an educator, I am not passive in how I teach and educate students, and I do not want my students to be passive in how they learn. (read more)
I am a Naperville North High School and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate with a degree in Mathematics. I have extensive problem-solving experience including winning 1st place at the 2007 ICTM State Math Contest, qualifying for the USA Math Olympiad, and placing in the top 500 in the... (read more)
...I try to make math fun and engaging, which I believe translates to success in the math classroom. I also try to give all students an "access point" to a problem. I know that all students come in with different knowledge, skills, and beliefs, so I do my best to figure out where my students are s... (read more)
...This course starts out with basic properties of operations such as associative, distributive, and many more. The course evaluates expression using an order of operations known as PEMDAS. Also, it has review of natural numbers, arithmetic operations, integers, fractions, decimals and negative nu... (read more)
...I use multiple approaches to teach Algebra, and even if you've had trouble with the subject before I'm confident we can find something that works for you. I've taught Prealgebra in whole class, small group, and one-one settings, to students of all ages and ability levels. 5+ years teaching exper... (read more)