Teaching = Math?

   For anyone who knows me, the idea that I am more qualified to teach math than English is probably shocking. Even though I somehow scraped by with A's in high school math, it is probably due to daily sessions in homeroom where Caley tried to teach me how to get the answers to my calculus homework.
   You see, I did what I think a lot of students do: I memorized. IE: the second number goes here, square the third number, etc. What I probably should have done was to actually learn the concepts. However I still hold some of the blame over my Algebra 1 teacher, who obviously didn't know the concepts himself, so my foundation was somewhat skewed.
   English was a different story. I think I came out of the womb knowing the proper use of a gerund. My family always encouraged me to speak correctly, and I must say it made me somewhat of a perfectionist.
   I saw a Victoria's Secret commercial the other day that used "there is" instead of "there are" when the predicate was plural. HELLO!

Serioiusly, check it out:
VS Commercial

   Travis tells me to chill out and that most people don't notice things like that. Well I would love to be the person they paid to notice. I would take the advertising industry by storm. Don't even get me started on the KFC commercial.
   But, I digress. I understand that many times it reaches more people to write the way something is commonly spoken than to make it grammatically correct. I even do that on this blog some.

   The fact is, despite my natural talents and glaring deficiencies, I am going to be a math teacher. As a graduate in finance, I have enough math background to qualify, and I passed my Praxis II Mathematical Content exam with flying colors (how, I still do not know). Technically the only English classes I've had are Comp 1 and 2, which hardly qualifies me to teach anything in that area. Luckily, there are more available math positions these days than English. No one wants to teach math, and I can definitely see why.
   I am hoping that after my first year in math (which is what I must teach to earn my Masters) I will be able to move to another subject... English?... Business? But until then I will stay up-to-date on my functions and derivatives.

   So maybe this time next year I'll be updating you about how the 1st 6-weeks of Algebra 2 is going. If it's calculus, trust me, I won't have time to blog.