I hope you are ready for a challenge everyday in my classroom. I hate to waste good tax dollars with goofing off! I will push you everyday in preparation for graduation and success in college! It is very important that you learn to back your work up! I enforce the ability to express your mathematics verbally (what is the question asking you to do), numerically (back your work up with a table), graphically (be able to show an appropriate graph in a given domain/range), and analytically (show your work algebraically!!!). One of the biggest hookups kids have with math, is that they cannot "explain" or connect why they do something!
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
EDUCATION:
Graduated from Texas Woman's University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with Secondary Certification in math for grades 6-12, and physics in 2008.
I am highly qualified in teaching AP and Pre-AP courses.
DUTIES AT MISD:
I have been teaching at Muenster High School since the fall of 1991. I am entering my 32nd year at MHS! (Am I really old enough to be teaching that long????)
I will teach the following courses:
Algebra II, Fundamentals of College Algebra (FOCA), Precalculus, AP Calculus, and Academic Enrichment
I also am the coordinator for the high school TMSCA (Texas Math and Science Coaches' Association), and Co-Coordinator for the HS UIL program. I coach number sense for grades 4-12 and high school mathematics for both TMSCA and UIL.
PERSONAL:
I am married to Brian "Zeke" Hess, and we have two daughters, Erin and Halle. Erin is a 2014 graduate of Muenster High School. Halle is a junior at MHS and will graduate in 2024. Zeke and I are both natives of Muenster and enjoy living and working in our hometown.