"I have 8 years of teaching experience and counting teaching high school. I have been rated as a highly effective teacher from the State of Florida every year since the start of my employment.

I have taught Algebra 1 these past 8 years as well as other courses such Algebra 2, Math for College Algebra, Advanced Topics, and Math for Data and Financial Literacy. I currently teach mostly finance which is the direction I like to take my teaching when teaching real world scenarios.

Anytime I have the chance I love to interject financial literacy concepts into the math whenever we cover real world scenarios. These concepts will be prevalent in almost every unit in some way. My theory is that student need to know "why" they are learning what they are learning rather than "because you have to." less...