LSummers
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New York, United States
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17+ years teaching Math, and a few years of teaching Computer Science / Computational Thinking. I love make puzzles that are disguised as "super fun" but are actually heavily math-focused (shhh)...
More than 10 years of traveling around the world in order to learn from and understand different educational philosophies from other cultures! Self-created traveling and teaching blogs!
www.holestories.com and www.holestudies.com
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Emoji Equations! Easy Picture Systems!
🏆 The Goal: To give students an understanding and confidence to work with equations in a fun and familiar way - emojis they've seen before (x and y can be scary in the beginning). 🧭 General Overview: Slides to present on the board where each slide has 4 emoji equations (2 easy, 1 mid-level, and 1 challenging problem). Great differentiation where students can pick any level they feel they can handle - or try them all! With one simple click, you can reveal each answer (one by one) so students ca
4th - 10th
Algebra, Basic Operations, Order of Operations
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Experience
17+ years teaching Math, and a few years of teaching Computer Science / Computational Thinking. I love make puzzles that are disguised as "super fun" but are actually heavily math-focused (shhh)...
More than 10 years of traveling around the world in order to learn from and understand different educational philosophies from other cultures! Self-created traveling and teaching blogs!
www.holestories.com and www.holestudies.com
Teaching style
I make class fun, exciting, comfortable, and overall a place where students want to be. I give students all the materials necessary to succeed, and I bend over backwards to help students in every possible way, but in no way do I force students to learn - that responsibility is on them. But if a class is structured correctly, students always choose to participate =)
Awards & shining teacher moments
- Achieved the largest standardized test score improvement (for math) in Virginia (30% passing to 99.8% passing in 1 year)... Still not beaten to this day!
- Teacher of the year award (2011)
- Winner of the 2017 CenturyLink Technology Grant for Washington State
My own education history
Bachelors Degree in Mathematics
Masters Degree in Secondary Mathematics Education
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