...My academic credentials include an Arabic and Middle East Studies certification from the Defense Language Institute in California. I spent my time there learning Arabic - and linguistics generally - in order to serve as a translator for the US Air Force. I also went to school briefly for audio engineering and have been playing the drums for 20 years. (read more)
I am a certified 5-8 Middle School Math teacher with 10 years of teaching experience. I bring an additional 25 years of professional career experience in the Financial Securities industry into my classroom every day. My emphasis in math teaching is to create for students the relevance of math in their every day lives both present and future. (read more)
...In my freshman year of college, I also worked as a mentor and tutor for elementary and middle school students through the Cambridge After School Program.I took Algebra 1 in middle school and have taken six math classes in four years of high school since then, all of which use algebra as the basis... (read more)
...During the course of my high school career, I maintained honor role in all my math classes , these classes included Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, Personal Finance, Precalculus, College level Statistics, and College level Calculus 1 and 2. The lowest grade I received in any of these classes was an 8... (read more)