...Adding our new learnings to our "toolbox" helps us learn other, more complicated things. My goal is to teach students creative ways of approaching problems, analyzing, and ultimately solving them. I always like to give students the opportunity to express their creative ideas and solutions first, before I suggest any new techniques. (read more)
...The reciprocals of those relationships are learned as well as how those ratios look on a unit circle whose radius is one. The "laws" of the trigonometric relationships can be used to solve problems more simply that using other means. The concept of radian is used to explore the difference between exact value and approximate. (read more)
...However, I always aim to spend time valuing the conceptual side of mathematics while practicing procedure skills. I have been an educator for eight years at middle and high school levels. Throughout, I have experienced opportunities to tutor one-on-one as well as group settings. (read more)
...I also taught 4 years of 8th Grade Math at Hudson Middle School in Hudson, Michigan. I am also a coach at Napoleon. I have been the Varsity Wrestling Coach for 27 years, along with coaching football, baseball and softball. (read more)
9 Subjects: includingAlgebra 2,Algebra 1,Statistics,SAT Math
...I graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in biology, and went on to receive my Master's in zoology from Michigan State University. My Master's research involved ecological and morphological relationships in skull shape of hypercarnivorous members of Carnivora. During my time at Michigan State Un... (read more)