Teri Glaess Hey you guys! I'm Teri Glaess. I grew up in Philly, home of cheese steaks, soft pretzels, Tastykakes, Rocky and the Eagles. My family moved around quite a bit. I moved half way through elementary school. I lived in different places for 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades. Luckily I got to stay in the same place for all of high school. No, my dad was not in the military; he worked for the phone company! While some of my colleagues remember watching the moon landing as a child, I remember thinking that Watergate was a disaster in which some dam broke and a lot of people died in the resulting flood. (I now know better.) In 1984 I ventured to the Midwest to attend Northwestern in Evanston, IL. Growing up on the East Coast I was unaware of the grand size of the US. I thought that while attending NU I could go to Las Vegas for the weekend, or see the Pacific Ocean on a long weekend. (I now know better.) I started as an industrial engineering major. By the beginning of my sophomore year I realized that I did not enjoy most of my science classes, so I switched to a math major. I liked my economics classes so I decided to add that as a major also. One of my favorite classes was called Statistical Inference. It was on Game Theory, which is what I eventually did my Master's paper on. I also loved my logic classes through the philosophy department. I remember when it took 2 class periods to prove 1+1=2. Now that was fun! Northwestern was the first time I was academically challenged; it was an eye opener. Through most of the four years, I expected to go into a business-related field after graduating, maybe marketing. Senior year I started going to interviews and presentations of large consumer product oriented businesses At one presentation I realized that I didn't like the other students that were interviewing for jobs. They were the ones that sat in the front of econ class reading the Journal every day. Yuck! By the winter of my senior year I realized teaching was the profession for me. I then headed down the lake to the University of Chicago for my Master's degree. This school was a great experience for me. I couldn't have gone to a better grad school. The funny thing is I didn't realize this until well after I had left. I had the opportunity to work on an innovative curriculum project, UCSMP, and learn about research, and authoring texts, which is helping me a great deal today. While I was at U of C, I did my student teaching at an area high school. I remember clearly teaching precalculus students about the unit circle. They were complaining, as I did when I was in high school, about radians. Then the light bulb went off! A-ha! I understood the ease and beauty of radians over degrees in a flash. Since then, I have had additional A-ha experiences while teaching, but the first is special. I have been a member of NCTM since I was in graduate school. Since then I have also joined ArizMATYC, AMATYC and MAA. I have always said that attendance at any conference by one of these organizations is worth more than any class I ever took in school. When I am not teaching students, I am at home in Queen Creek or camping in one of this country's national parks with my husband JD and our three children, Allison, Zachary and Katherine. I also spend my leisure time participating in community theatre. I enjoy acting, directing, and designing for Tempe Little Theatre.