Hello! I’m the teacher behind Math by the Mountain.

I’m a secondary math teacher with more than a decade of classroom experience, and I create thorough, classroom-ready resources designed to support real students in real classrooms.

Over the years, I’ve taught a wide range of secondary math courses, including Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalculus, AP Statistics, and intervention and support classes. That experience has shaped how I design every resource I create.

My materials are thorough and intentional. A great deal of thought goes into the problems included in each set of notes and activities. Problems are carefully selected and sequenced to introduce ideas, build connections, address common misconceptions, increase the level of challenge, and prepare students for what comes next.

In other words: each problem is there for a reason.

I also believe strongly that supporting students does not mean lowering the level of mathematics. Good support comes from thoughtful scaffolding, clear connections, purposeful practice, and giving students opportunities to reason through ideas.

I think of this as building a “conceptual snowball.” At first, laying the groundwork takes time. But as students develop a strong foundation, new ideas should connect naturally to what they already know. Eventually, students begin to see new material and think, “Oh, this is just like what we already did.”

That’s the goal: math that makes sense.

I want my resources to be complete enough that teachers can use them without having to fill in gaps, add missing examples, or redesign the lesson themselves. Plus every answer key should actually show all of the steps, not just the final answer. Truly print-and-go resources you can trust.

Before I consider a resource finished, I come back to one simple question:

Would I actually want to use this with my own students?

If the answer isn’t yes, it isn’t finished.

Thanks for stopping by!

— Math by the Mountain