I graduated from St. John's University twice with degrees in Journalism and Elementary Education. I've been teaching a long time for many grades and in many subjects. I've come to love teaching math. I always let my students use colored pencils and crayons to make the complicated topics easier to grasp. I taught remedial remedial high school math from 2008-2023. I loved it when they told me they already knew the topic. But when I showed them a different way to solve the problem, they would say, "This is so much easier than the way we learned it." I always say, "There's more than one way to paint a barn red.