4 years experience teaching 7th grade math at Alliance Academy (middle school in Oakland CA);
3 years experience teaching Algebra and Geometry at Dewey Academy (continuation HS in Oakland CA);
3 years of teaching Geometry, Algebra 2 / Pre-Calculus, and IB Math SL (Calculus and Statistics) at San Jose HS in San Jose CA
Current math tutor for all levels of the subject and homeschool teacher to 3 sons born 2019, 2021 and 2023
This worksheet is a great resource for math and algebra students to differentiate between different operations words for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It helps a lot when students are working on word problems! Can be used as a classwork or a homework assignment.
This practice worksheet gives students the opportunity practice their 3D shapes by: -Drawing pictures and identify 3D shapes -Identifying what their nets look like -Listing what 2D shapes they are made up of -Find their faces, edges, and vertices Great practice activity for kinesthetic learners, and is scaffolded well for students!
Have your students research a non-traditional math topic and present to the class: either a historical or cultural math concept/use or a historical/modern mathematician! Can be used at any level of math at any time of the year. I used this as a final project (along with the final test) within the "end-of-the-year" classroom environment which tends to be stressful during finals time. My students engaged themselves in a top of their interest within the subject of math and taught each other. This
This 9 question quiz assesses students knowledge of piecewise functions: graphing, types of piece wise functions, domain and range, and basic identification.
Students love to practice vocabulary using these word puzzles! Included are a word search to help students recognize vocabulary words as well as a crossword puzzle to have students practice definitions. Great activity for after a test or as a HW review! Words included: acute, adjacent, angle, center, chord, circle, complementary, congruent, diameter, given, line, obtuse, plane, point, postulate, proof, radius, ray, reasons, right, segment, statements, supplementary, vertical
Students love to practice vocabulary using these word puzzles! Included are a word search to help students recognize vocabulary words as well as a crossword puzzle to have students practice definitions. Great activity for after a test or as a HW review! Words included: area, central angle, chord, circle, circumference, complete the square, diameter, equidistant, inscribed angle, major arc, minor arc, radius, secant, semicircle, square root, tangent, theorem
I always start my class with an easily accessible warm up (do now, drill, whatever you want to call it) so all students feel confident beginning math class. The skill is either something that is pre-requisite to that day's lesson or review from previous days. This particular drill helps students practice their memorization of the unit circle. There are 2 versions: one with the angles given asking for the sin/cos coordinate, and the other with the coordinates given asking for the angles in both d
I always start my class with an easily accessible warm up (do now, drill, whatever you want to call it) so all students feel confident beginning math class. The skill is either something that is pre-requisite to that day's lesson or review from previous days. I do a couple examples on the board, and give students 5-7 minutes to complete a short drill which we then grade right away. This particular drill helps students conceptualize radians and degrees as an intro to using them on the unit circle
Short quizzes are a great way to do quick check for understandings to see what students have mastered and what you need to review before moving forward. This quiz assesses students knowledge of: -ordering numbers least to greatest -finding the minimum, maximum, median, and first / third quartiles of a data set -drawing a box-and-whisker plot given a data set I used to give a short quiz every Friday for this purpose and found it extremely helpful for both myself and students to be in the routine
I always start my class with an easily accessible warm up (do now, drill, whatever you want to call it) so all students feel confident beginning math class. The skill is either something that is pre-requisite to that day's lesson or review from previous days. I do a couple examples on the board, and give students 5-7 minutes to complete a short drill which we then grade right away. This particular drill helps students practice sketching sin and cos graph with varied transformations. I taught stu
Students love to practice vocabulary using these word puzzles! Included are a word search to help students recognize vocabulary words as well as a crossword puzzle to have students practice definitions. Great activity for after a test or as a HW review! Words included: compound events, conditional, dependent, event, experimental, independent, outcomes, probability, replacement, sample space, sampling, sets, table, theoretical, tree diagram, trial, venn diagram
I always start my class with an easily accessible warm up (do now, drill, whatever you want to call it) so all students feel confident beginning math class. The skill is either something that is pre-requisite to that day's lesson or review from previous days. I do a couple examples on the board, and give students 5-7 minutes to complete a short drill which we then grade right away. This particular drill helps students practice converting angles between radians and degrees. I used this as review
This particular drill helps students practice identifying the name and the function for all the different parent functions that students learn in a traditional HS setting. You can use this near the end of the year to begin review, or at the beginning of the year for a Calculus course to get the juices flowing. I also used to print out the answer key as a reference guide for students to use throughout the year. I always start my class with an easily accessible warm up (do now, drill, whatever yo
I always start my class with an easily accessible warm up (do now, drill, whatever you want to call it) so all students feel confident beginning math class. The skill is either something that is pre-requisite to that day's lesson or review from previous days. I do a couple examples on the board, and give students 5-7 minutes to complete a short drill which we then grade right away. This particular drill helps students practice drawing reduced and higher angles on a grid, both in radians and degr
I always start my class with an easily accessible warm up (do now, drill, whatever you want to call it) so all students feel confident beginning math class. The skill is either something that is pre-requisite to that day's lesson or review from previous days. I do a couple examples on the board, and give students 5-7 minutes to complete a short drill which we then grade right away. This particular drill helps students practice higher angles (and reducing them), using the unit circle, identifying
The unit circle can be overwhelming for many students who are being introduced to it for the first time. I used many graphic organizers to approach the unit circle in various ways to help my students fully grasp its complexity. Included in this set of reference sheets are: -How to convert between degrees and radians -Calculating reference angles in the various quadrants -Review of sin/cos of special right triangles, and color coding the groups of reference angles on the unit circle -Reference a
Students are to recreate the unit circle with whatever medium they chose using some kind of rotational representation. Some examples are planetary orbits, ferris and/or other wheels; many students struggled with this part and just made their unit circle on circle like a pie or eye. Students must include all the different pieces of the unit circle and answer questions on the back. I copied this on color paper double sided and had students turn it back into me for grading. Students get really cr
Students love to practice vocabulary using these word puzzles! Included are a word search to help students recognize vocabulary words as well as a crossword puzzle to have students practice definitions. Great activity for after a test or as a HW review! Words included: asymptote, cube root, denominator, equation, extraneous, fraction, function, hole, horizontal, inverse, numerator, rational, slant asymptote, solution, solve, square root, transformations, vertical, x intercept, y intercept
Students love to practice vocabulary using these word puzzles! Included are a word search to help students recognize vocabulary words as well as a crossword puzzle to have students practice definitions. Great activity for after a test or as a HW review! Words included: amplitude, area, cosecant, cosine, cotangent, coterminal, degrees, equations, expressions, function, initial side, midline, modeling, period, periodic, phase shift, quadrant, radians, reference angle, secant, simplify, sine
Short quizzes are a great way to do quick check for understandings to see what students have mastered and what you need to review before moving forward. This quiz assesses students knowledge of: -solving 2 step inequalities -graphing inequalities -solving 2 step equations (answers given as multiple choice) I used to give a short quiz every Friday for this purpose and found it extremely helpful for both myself and students to be in the routine of short assessment. (I believe students are over tes
4 years experience teaching 7th grade math at Alliance Academy (middle school in Oakland CA);
3 years experience teaching Algebra and Geometry at Dewey Academy (continuation HS in Oakland CA);
3 years of teaching Geometry, Algebra 2 / Pre-Calculus, and IB Math SL (Calculus and Statistics) at San Jose HS in San Jose CA
Current math tutor for all levels of the subject and homeschool teacher to 3 sons born 2019, 2021 and 2023
Teaching style
I love to teach math to all levels of students: intervention, at level, and advanced. I create lesson plans to reach ALL types of learners: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, interpersonal etc.
My own education history
B.A. in Pure Mathematics from UC Berkeley, 2007
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