Mrs. King is a Mater Dei alumna: class of '79. She attended the University of California, Irvine and graduated with a B.A. in German in 1983. She spent her senior year at UCI in Goettingen, Germany as part of the UC "Education Abroad" program. Her year abroad was financed by the Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship Program from Rotary International. Yes, she does speak fluent German.

Mrs. King started teaching at Mater Dei High School in 1983. Initially her part-time assignment consisted of German I and Algebra I. But in 1984 she went full time and also began teaching Geometry. Since 1985 she has been a full time math teacher and has taught all of the following courses at one time or another: German I, Algebra I, Honors Algebra I, Geometry, Honors Geometry, Intermediate Algebra, Algebra II, Geometry/Algebra II combination course (no longer offered), PreCalculus, Honors PreCalculus, A.P. Calculus and A.P. Computer Science.

The highest math course Mrs. King had taken, up until 1988, was first year Calculus. But since she hadn't taught anything higher than Algebra II up to that point, it was pretty much O.K. However, she began to be curious about higher math. In 1990 she returned to school, taking second year Calculus during the summer at Cal State Fullerton. The following summer she took Linear Algebra & Differential Equations and calculus based Probability. In 1990 she enrolled at California Polytechnic University, Pomona as a conditional master's program student in Applied Mathematics.

She expects to finish her Master's in Applied Mathematics in Fall of 2000. It has taken a long time to complete coursework while working full time and raising a family. If you're interested in exactly what courses she has taken, check here.

She is currently working on the introductory phase of her Master's Thesis, and expects to post some info about it here in the near future.

She has been a member of NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) and OCMC off and on over the years. She attends conferences and seminars regularly (usually at least one per year) and spends a lot of time reading about and discussing mathematics education in the newsgroup k12.ed.math.

She is also a member of the Mathematics Department part-time pool at Cal Poly, Pomona. She taught Math 105 there during the summer of 1993 and will be teaching there again this year.