I am a father of a 17 year old girl and a 14 year old boy and we have partially homeschooled them. My daughter and son both excelled in math, my son especially and I have fun with math. We discuss it in the car, we work on problems together and he will be in Calculus next year in 10th grade. I am an active participant in our church youth group and kids at my kids school are pushing me to teach math and Spanish there. That's not bragging! I'm a simple humble human being who just understands...
I am a father of a 17 year old girl and a 14 year old boy and we have partially homeschooled them. My daughter and son both excelled in math, my son especially and I have fun with math. We discuss it in the car, we work on problems together and he will be in Calculus next year in 10th grade. I am an active participant in our church youth group and kids at my kids school are pushing me to teach math and Spanish there. That's not bragging! I'm a simple humble human being who just understands where the kids are in life. I've been in the shoes of many kids. I was proudly a geeky math and science student and then I discovered percussion and rock and roll...and Marching Band!! My history throughout my life has been diverse.
I have an MBA in Tax and Finance and began my college career as an engineering student but switched to accounting. I became bored with that so I left my controllership position at Coca-Cola to become a financial advisor. I calculate everything in my head from miles per gallon, time saved by incremental increases in speed driven and unit prices when shopping. It's fun and useful and I know how to teach the practical side of math, which then helps kids understand their algebraic concepts better. One has to take the fear and/or boredom out of math, and their students will be successful.
Not only have I tutored my own son to be in calculus in 10th grade but I helped a friend by teaching her son Algebra in a week to stay out of summer school. That made me love teaching because I really believed that I could help even the most challenged student pass algebra. That's very gratifying. I love kids and I want them to succeed! They're all capable. They just need to be shown and told that.
I not only love the story of the Bible as everything leads to Jesus, I love the literary design and the patterns of the history of the Bible that center on it's one and only theme. Throughout the Old Testament God just wants his people to love and obey Him, and since the law never seems to achieve that the new cov
