Pat Daley

My first four years of teaching were at Westlake HS, Westlake, OH where I taught mathematics and computer science. Since then, my husband and I moved to Connecticut and have been teaching in the same high school for years. Don teaches English; I will be teaching honors geometry, personal finance, honors and regular precalculus with graphing calculators, and calculus with graphing calculators next year. English teachers in our school teach four classes; all other teachers are assigned five classes -- often five preps. Our school of 1700 students is divided into three houses. We have a headmaster and three housemasters. Since all algebra, geometry, calculus, etc classes must be evenly distributed throughout the houses, each teacher often has five preps. We have a math department of fifteen teachers. We have been using graphing calculators in our precalculus classes for the last four years with the Demana/Waits book.

Besides teaching, I and my college professor friend, Ed O'Neil, do several workshops for teachers each year throughout Connecticut on using graphing calculators in the math classroom. I have also recently completed two years of NSF funded graduate mathematics courses on Saturdays -- Chronological Development of Geometry and the Chronological Development of Calculus.

My family has done a lot of camping in the last twelve years visiting forty-eight states. My "crunchy" son will be backpacking and mountain biking and (I hope) studying at the University of Vermont next year. My daughter, who likes the city, will be a junior at Boston College and will spend her second semester studying in London.