Welcome to My Blog

Hello teachers, parents and most of all, my students!

I love teaching and I love Math. Teaching and Math are two of my most fervent passions. Call me dweeb, dwonk, math geek -- whatever -- I am proud of it! Afterall, "Know who you are and then do it on purpose."

I love the way math works as a language. Oh I no...you might be saying, "A language? Like Spanish? Like French?" Yes, a powerful, beautiful language that allows us to create large structures like buildings and bridges, or describe microscopic phenomena like cell replication and molecule behavior. Math can explain harmony in music, symmetry in sculpture, color hues in oil paintings. Math helps explain David Ortiz's hitting strength and Curt Schilling's curve ball. Without the math behind them, we'd have no arches in cathedrals, no turrets in castles, and certainly, not one of the Great Pyramids that grace Egypt. Math is underneath it all, everyday, everywhere.

Let's all become very literate in math. Let's use this powerful language discovered by the ancient civilizations and as relevant now, in 2009, as ever.

Keep an open mind, a sharp pencil, a sense of humor and be sure to tighten your chin straps. We're in for a great ride!