I've been teaching mathematics in Sumter High School, Sumter, SC for five years. I recently relocated to Columbia, and I teach mathematics at C.A. Johnson High School, Columbia, SC now. (read more)
...I started learning of my love for teaching people when I was quite young, and I've been running with it ever since. In middle school I launched my own science club for elementary and middle school students. I put together lessons on interesting scientific topics and new research and then presented it to the club members. (read more)
...I was striving to be certified in Math and I may still pursue it. I have twenty seven college credits in Math from Columbia College and Midlands Technical College. I am capable of interacting well with my students. (read more)
...I find that the most detrimental thing to a mathematics student is lacking a core foundation. In math, everything you learn builds on top of what you learned in previous years, and without that strong foundation, students can fall behind. When teachers explain something in class they assume that the students have a certain knowledge about math based on what they learned in previous years. (read more)