Tim Yoder
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Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States
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Six years ago I retired after spending 43 years in public school classrooms. In my career I taught grades four through eight, and most recently I taught middle school math and science .
I also spent seven years as an adjunct professor for Brenau University in Gainesville, GA. I taught the following classes to preservice teachers in the School of Education: Classroom Management, Teaching Math, and Teaching Science.
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March Madness Math - What is the Probability of Picking a Perfect Bracket?
The end of the college basketball season comes, and March Madness takes over. Millions of people tackle the challenge of creating the perfect bracket by attempting to predict the winner of all 63 games in the tournament. How difficult can that be? (wink, wink) This slide show first delivers a mini-lesson on how to calculate the total number of possible outcomes of an event. It then goes through the mathematical process of how to arrive at the fact that there are 9.2 quintillion possibl
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Six years ago I retired after spending 43 years in public school classrooms. In my career I taught grades four through eight, and most recently I taught middle school math and science .
I also spent seven years as an adjunct professor for Brenau University in Gainesville, GA. I taught the following classes to preservice teachers in the School of Education: Classroom Management, Teaching Math, and Teaching Science.
Teaching style
My goal was to make my lessons come alive through whatever means possible so that all of my students were actively engaged as they strived to reach their highest potential.
Awards & shining teacher moments
--1987 Teacher of the Year - Academy Central School, Tulsa, OK
--1999 Teacher of the Year - Simonton Elementary School,
Lawrenceville, GA
--1999 Teacher of the Year Finalist - Gwinnett County Public Schools,
Gwinnett County, GA
--2003 Achieved National Board Certification
--2005 Teacher of the Year - McConnell Middle School, Loganville, GA
--Presented at the National Science Teachers Association national conference in Atlanta, GA
My own education history
--Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education
--Master's Degree in School Administration
--Educational Specialist's Degree in Middle Grades Math and Science
Additional biographical information
My beautiful wife Sherri and I have been very happily married for 37 years. We have three children: Rebekah (who is a third grade teacher ), Rachel (who is a registered nurse working in an emergency room), and Andrew (who is a computer software engineer.)
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