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Welcome!You Are In

Mr. McKendrick’sMath Class

(Don’t be afraid to leave if you’re in the wrong room)

Welcome to GEOMETRY, PRECALCULUS, OR AP CALCULUS!

• Tonight’s Agenda:– Important Course Info on

Website!!!–A Little Background info. about me–Getting Extra Help–Course Recs–My Philosophy of Teaching through

Quotes

• Course Policies, Handouts, Solution Keys, and Assignment Sheets are all on my website.–Deerfield Home Page

WHEN IN NEED, HIT THE WEB!

All About Me

• My background– I grew up in Villa Park, IL. Home of Portillos, Ovaltine,

and the Jewelry Exchange!– Willowbrook High School (Class of 1999) and was a

soccer, basketball, and baseball player.– I attended Trinity International University (Class of 2003)

for undergrad, and I also played basketball in college.– For graduate school, I attended Northeastern Illinois

University (Master’s Degree #1 in Math Education) and Concordia University (Master’s Degree #2 in School Administration).

– I’m 34 and have been married for 12 years

– I have a 6.5 year old daughter (Skylar) and a 3.5 year old daughter (Brooklyn).

My Family

My Experience

• Student taught here at DHS in 2002 under Kip Gasper

• This is now my 13th year at DHS

• I teach AP Calculus, Precalculus Advanced, and Geometry this year.

• I’m also the Head Boys’ Basketball coach.

• Meet with me!http://dhs.dist113.org/Faculty/McKendrickD/Documents/Mr.%20McKendrick%27s%20Daily%20Schedule.pdf

• Use the ARC (Academic Resource Center) http://dhs.dist113.org/services/ARC/Pages/default.aspx

- FAST PASSES

GETTING EXTRA HELP!

• Currently Geometry:

- Options for next year are:Algebra 2 or Advanced Algebra 2

• Currently in Precalculus (SO or JR)

- Options for next year are:

AP Calculus AB, AP Stats, AP Computer Science,

Intro. to Programming, Statistical Reasoning, Calculus

• Currently in AP Calculus (JR)

- Options for next year are:

AP Stats, AP Computer Science, Intro. to

Programming, Statistical Reasoning

COURSE RECS

MY PHILOSOPHY

• “Math is not a spectator sport.”

• “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison

• “What you know , you might never use. What you don’t know, you’ll definitely never use.”