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
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
Graph literacy is something all students need practice with. This investigation shows how powerful the information on a graph can be by relating it to the status of the various countries of the world. This activity can be used as an introduction to scatterplots, or after students have already been introduced to the topic. Students will be looking at this Health and Wealth Chart from Gapminder (https://www.gapminder.org/fw/world-health-chart/whc2019/) to deconstruct the information that is being
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: binomial, box and whisker, continuous, correlation, cumulative, discrete, distribution, frequency, mean, normal, regression, standard deviation, statistics, variance
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 from least to greatest -finding a minimum and maximum -finding a median (including finding an average of 2 median numbers) -deconstructing word problems 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 rou
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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