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With 27 years of experience teaching, tutoring, and creating custom math curriculum, I’ve worked in both traditional classrooms and Montessori school settings, guiding students from upper elementary through advanced high school math. I hold a Master’s in Secondary Education with a focus on Mathematics, Cognition, and Motivation, as well as AMI Adolescent Certification. I’m a Certified Secondary Math Teacher and a Certified Montessori Generalist for Adolescents, blending the best of both structured and student-centered approaches. My professional background includes extensive training in neurodivergent learning styles and classroom adaptations, along with expertise in project-based curriculum writing and teaching. Over the years, I’ve served as a Curriculum Writer, Director of Montessori Middle Schools, and Homeschool Parent Consultant, specializing in helping students succeed at every level — from catching up to moving ahead. Every resource I create reflects this balance of rigor, flexibility, and personalization so every learner can find “whatever works” for them.
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Preview of Foundation Skills for Prealgebra 6th & 7th Grade Math Digital Unit Bundle

Foundation Skills for Prealgebra 6th & 7th Grade Math Digital Unit Bundle

Set your students up for their year of success with this foundation skills digital resource. These skills often work for 6th-grade 7th-grade math or Prealgebra. Make sure to click on each of the bundled skills for a walkthrough video of each lesson. In this download you will receive:Teacher Guide with Answer Keys for every lessonEditable Version of each original PPT so you can add pages, add problems, or remove content.Student Version of each original PPT with JPEG backgrounds so that moving ob
Preview of Exponents and Order of Operations Digital Interactive Notebook and Activities

Exponents and Order of Operations Digital Interactive Notebook and Activities

What is the fourth dimension? or the fifth? In my exponents lessons, I get asked this all the time. The very first page of this resource has a visual I use to explain why a zero exponent is 1, and how you can visualize dimensions beyond a cube. With four different activities, there's plenty of practice, including in Order of Operations problems and a super challenging puzzle. Enjoy! In this download you will receive:Teacher Guide with Answer KeysEditable Version of the original PPT so you can ad
Preview of Factors & Divisibility Interactive Journal

Factors & Divisibility Interactive Journal

Factors puzzles and divisibility practice in one interactive journal. Students begin with an operations puzzle and continue through four activities on factors and divisibility of composite numbers. In this download you will receive:Master Version and Teacher Guide with Answer KeysEditable Version of the original PPT so you can add pages, add problems, or remove content.Student Version of the original PPT with JPEG backgrounds so that moving objects around is easy and user-friendlyStudents will l
Preview of Order of Operations Digital Interactive Notebook Distance Learning

Order of Operations Digital Interactive Notebook Distance Learning

Provide a variety of activities to practice basic order of operations skills with this interactive journal. Students warm-up with a basic operations activity and then progress through 4 slides worth of basic order of operations activities and practice In this download you will receive:Teacher Guide with Answer KeysEditable Version of the original PPT so you can add pages, add problems, or remove content.Student Version of the original PPT with JPEG backgrounds so that moving objects around is ea
Preview of Decimals Unit Mini-Project Distance Learning Google Slides

Decimals Unit Mini-Project Distance Learning Google Slides

This Decimal Interactive Journal includes both practice worksheets and a mini budgeting project. Students learn add, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals. There are hundreds of practice problems and the original PPT file to adapt to your needs. Students apply their skills through real recipe scaling for a Pancake Breakfast. In this download you will receive:PDF Teacher Guide with Answer Keys and lesson tipsLink to copy and download the Google Slides Interactive Math JournalAn origina
Preview of Integer Operations Full Unit Bundle Distance Learning Google Slides

Integer Operations Full Unit Bundle Distance Learning Google Slides

Take your students on a journey through Integer Operations full unit online! This interactive journal has history stories, worksheets, puzzles, art, and even a mini financial project. There are 27 full slides to practice all four operations in positive and negative numbers. As a bonus, the three bundled activities come together in a single document that can be uploaded and assigned. Skill lessons have three components: Definition, Thinking Questions, and Rote and Practice to ensure that student
Preview of Fraction Unit Mini Project Interactive Distance Learning

Fraction Unit Mini Project Interactive Distance Learning

This Fraction Interactive Journal includes both practice worksheets and a mini recipes project. Students learn reducing fractions and operating with all four operations. There are hundreds of practice problems and the original PPT file to adapt to your needs. Students apply their skills through real recipe scaling for a Pancake Breakfast. In this download you will receive:PDF Teacher Guide with Answer Keys and lesson tipsLink to copy and download the Google Slides Interactive Math JournalAn orig
Preview of Subtracting Positive & Negative Numbers Digital Notebook

Subtracting Positive & Negative Numbers Digital Notebook

Subtracting Integers can be fun and interesting even during Distance Learning. This Interactive Journal shows students basic subtraction of negatives, teaches them about parenthesis and gives them plenty of colorful, mixed up practice. The resource begins with a link to my website where students can watch a video teaching them how to think about subtracting integers like vectors. If they haven’t thought about integers this way before you should either remove the page with the link OR have them
Preview of Adding Positive & Negative Numbers Digital Notebook

Adding Positive & Negative Numbers Digital Notebook

Adding Integers can be fun and interesting even during Distance Learning. This Interactive Journal takes students from the history of negative numbers by Applying Adding Negative numbers in a realistic way. Though we take them for granted today, negative numbers were both useful and controversial in history. The Story of Negative Numbers tells the history from around the world of how negative numbers were perceived, argued about, and used. This is the way I open my Integer Operations Unit tha
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With 27 years of experience teaching, tutoring, and creating custom math curriculum, I’ve worked in both traditional classrooms and Montessori school settings, guiding students from upper elementary through advanced high school math. I hold a Master’s in Secondary Education with a focus on Mathematics, Cognition, and Motivation, as well as AMI Adolescent Certification. I’m a Certified Secondary Math Teacher and a Certified Montessori Generalist for Adolescents, blending the best of both structured and student-centered approaches. My professional background includes extensive training in neurodivergent learning styles and classroom adaptations, along with expertise in project-based curriculum writing and teaching. Over the years, I’ve served as a Curriculum Writer, Director of Montessori Middle Schools, and Homeschool Parent Consultant, specializing in helping students succeed at every level — from catching up to moving ahead. Every resource I create reflects this balance of rigor, flexibility, and personalization so every learner can find “whatever works” for them.

My own education history

Master's of Secondary Education with emphasis on Mathematics, Cognition, and Motivation. Bachelor of Arts in Educational Psychology with a Minor in Research Statistics AMI/NAMTA Montessori Adolescent Certification Professional Development in Neurodivergent Learners, Project Based Learning,