Have you ever wondered how many goats it would take to fill the Grand Canyon? Or, how long would it take to drink all the water in an Olympic size swimming pool? I have. I have a LOT of stupid questions and I LOVE that math gives me the power to answer them! (Well… most of them.)
Welcome! I’m your Math Teacher on Sir Kay and I looooooove teaching it! Ever get the feeling that math is nothing but numbers, numbers, and more numbers? I had that feeling throughout all of my education and even through college. I wasn’t bad at it either. I could do the calculations. I could pass the tests. More importantly, I could take it or leave it. It did nothing for me. It was lifeless. I wanted to be SCIENCE teacher! After all, that’s where the explosions, the fire, the contraptions, the bugs… you know, all cool stuff are! There was only one problem. I couldn’t do the math in my Science classes!
I know what you’re thinking, “Mr. Newman, you just said you could do the math and that you weren’t bad at it”. I said I could do the calculations, not the math. It wasn’t until a professor in school gave me a science problem that required me to actually think about how I was going to use those calculations that I realized I didn’t actually know what I was doing all those years in school! I was good at following directions. I was good at “playing” school, but if you asked me how many goats it would take to fill the Grand Canyon? I wouldn’t have a clue where to start answering this VERY important question. I realized I needed to start over and think about math differently. I went back to school… like back Elementary School, and fell in love with how and why math works the way it does. I decided then and there that I had to be a Math teacher!
I can’t wait to share my passion with you!