Karen Brown
Subject:
Mathematics
Education History:
- BS for Autuarial & Statistics from New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Minored in English
- Substance Abuse Coordinator certification from New Jersey City State University
- Enrolled in Rutger's Masters Program for Mathematics Education.
Biography:
Activities
- Advisor to the Class of 2011
Hobbies, Interests
- Mrs. Brown is addicted to reality TV-Survivor, Amazing Race, and Big Brother.
- She likes shows such as Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, Heroes, and all three CSI's.
- She enjoys reading Dean Koontz novels.
- Also, Mrs. Brown enjoys novels which are mixes of romance, mystery, and horror.
- Mrs. Brown likes eating Italian food.
- With no specified music preferences, Mrs. Brown will listen to mostly anything.
- She enjoys old classic movies like Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman
- Mrs. Brown also likes horror films such as Exorcist and Amityville Horror
- Mrs. Brown is a Miami Dolphins fan.
- She takes pleasure in jet skiing.
- She takes vacations in Long Beach Island.
- Mrs. Brown speaks a small amount of French.
- Mrs. Brown substituted at Jackson Elementary and High School in her early teaching career.
- She started her first career teaching job at High Tech as a math teacher in 1993.
- As of now, Mrs. Brown teaches AP Statistics, Algebra II/Trigonometry, and Data Analysis I and II.
- Her favorite class to teach is Algebra II/Trig.
- She enjoys factoring & "foiling", and when complicated problems turn out to be simple answers.
- She also wrote a paper on Graph Theory.
- Mrs. Brown loves the academic motivation at High Tech.
- She dislikes all the paperwork that goes along with teaching.