LVPhyMath

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Livermore, California, United States

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I have been a teacher for 25 years. Most of this time has been spent teaching high school physics and Calculus but I have also taught most all math and science subjects in grades 6-12.

Determining the Area Between Two Curves - With a Bit of Art!

8th Grade Science and Math Career Project

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This is a project for the first unit of Calculus - right after the students learn the definition of the derivative and how to find the slope of the tangent line to the graph. Students will first choose a famous curve, make a poster of the equation with graph, take the derivative, find the slope of the tangent line and the equation of the tangent line at two points on the graph, they will also find a few things about the history of the curve. The assignment also comes with a rubric to grade it

11th - 12th, Higher Education

Calculus, Math

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Experience

I have been a teacher for 25 years. Most of this time has been spent teaching high school physics and Calculus but I have also taught most all math and science subjects in grades 6-12.

Teaching style

I teach a hands-on science class where students learn by doing. In my math and physics classes I like the students to understand what they learn and also practice. I try to make both math and science fun and enjoyable but also challenging and content rich.

Awards & shining teacher moments

Intel Science Teacher of the Year LHS Teacher of the Year Sandia National Laboratory - Outstanding STEM Teacher California State Science Fair - Teacher of the Year.

My own education history

Bachelors of Science, with Honors, University of California, Davis. Physics Lots of inservice and graduate work as physics and mathematics.

Additional biographical information

Mother of 3 adult children. One is currently a civil engineer, one is a graduate engineering student at Purdue University and my youngest daughter studies Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).