Math Resource Center tutoring available
phone: 530-263-7133
email: jayne@threeacres.org
by appointment only
RESUME AND RESEARCH:
Resume
Teaching Math to Middle School Students
Rational Expressions and Equations
Article, not yet published
Math and Workforce / College Readiness
Common Math Misconceptions
Developmental College Courses
Technology in the Classroom
Adding and Subtracting Signed Numbers
Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra
Teaching Fractions in College
Filling Gaps at Community College
Factoring Polynomials
Critical Thinking Skills
Inverses in Mathematics
Mathematics at the Collegiate Level
Solving Mathematical Problems Report
Gauss Biography
Riemann Biography
PRIVATE TUTORING:
Pre-Algebra
Algebra
Geometry
Algebra II
Trigonometry and Precalculus
Calculus
All Math Courses at Sierra College
SAT and ACT MATHEMATICS PREPARATION
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TAMU ONLINE MATH COURSES
Math
609 - Numerical Analysis
Math 614 - Dynamical Systems and Chaos
Math
629 - History of Mathematics
Math
640 - Linear Algebra
Math
645 - Problem Survey I
Math
646 - Problem Survey II
Math 660 - Computational Linear Algebra
Math 664 - Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Math
666 - Seminar in Geometry
Math
689 - Teaching Mathematics at the Collegiate Level
Math
696 - Communication and Technology in Mathematics
                   
                                                                                            
Hobbies and Interests past and present:
-
Genealogy
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DNA Genealogy
- Gardening - but I don't know what I'm doing
- Sewing and crochet
- Private Pilot since 1979
- former
Air Racer
- former ranked tennis player
Click here to see my beautiful family
            
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Jayne Overgard earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from UW Madison;
two of the undergraduate years were at UC Berkeley, where she also worked as a math tutor for the Student Learning Center on campus.
She was head of the Mathematics Department
at Concordia High School in Oakland, CA for four years, where she taught Pre-Algebra,
Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry, and Calculus. She tutored students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison for one year, and taught SAT Math Prep through the Piedmont Adult School.
In the recent past she taught Algebra and Geometry for the Grass Valley Charter School, Nevada City School of the Arts, and Forest
Charter School.
She is a faculty candidate for Axia College, an online community college of the University of Phoenix. She also tutors privately.
Jayne is uniquely able to make sense out of math and to explain concepts in
a way that is understandable to the student.
            
     
     
     
                                                                          
Some other past jobs:
-
Air Traffic Controller
- Computer Consultant
- Sold higher end accounting software
- Full charge bookkeeper
- Buyer for a food co-op
- House manager for a student co-op
- Waitress
- Tennis teaching pro at a
club
- Corn canning factory (quit after one 8 hour shift)
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