About the Author
Carolyn Wheater has taught math to students, young and not so young,
for almost forty years. Growing up, she was astonished when asked if she
liked school. Although she wasn’t sure if she liked it, she was good at it, but
she realized that not everyone was, and that little was happening to change
that. She chose teaching as a career because she thought there had to be a
better way.
After earning a B.A. in math at Marymount Manhattan College, she moved
to the University of Massachusetts for graduate work, and taught an
undergraduate math course, full of interesting but not very useful math.
Wheater began teaching full time in 1974, and has been teaching middle
and upper school math (and a little bit of computer programming) ever
since. She still believes there has to be a better way, and continues to look
for it.
Wheater believes that what makes quality education is a teacher willing to
find another way to explain any idea. Her greatest frustration in writing is
choosing just a few explanations to include in a book, but she has over a
dozen books to her credit nonetheless. Her most cherished accolades are
happy comments from former students and their parents.