Meet the people who make XYZ Textbooks possible
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? The people working here, the atmosphere and being a positive solution for understanding developmental math.
Year started with company: 2009
Major: English
Pets or kids? 3 kids, 3 dogs, a bunny and a fish.
Favorite job Other than XYZ Textbooks, Camp Counselor at Walton's Grizzly Lodge Summer Camp
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? Flexibility, feeling appreciated, lunch on Thursdays!
Year started with company: 2010
Major: Nutrition
Favorite thing to do on the weekends: Wine tasting
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? The people working here, and the flexibility of the website. No matter what we want to do, there is a place for it on the website. For an author, it is a dream come true.
Year started with company: 2006
Major: Mathematics
Pets or kids? Two children, seven grandchildren.
Favorite website: e-chords.com
Favorite pastime:Putting videos on YouTube and reading the comments people make.
Favorite vacation: Going to Hawaii with the grandkids!
Favorite quote: If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're right!
Favorite thing about working for MathTV and XYZ Textbooks? Multifaceted work days, opportunities to be creative
Year started with company: 2010
Major: Exercise Science
Pets or kids? Supergirl Alana!
Irrational fear: Rogue commas
Favorite activity: Climbing mountains
Favorite quote: "A line is a dot going for a walk." -Paul Klee
Favorite thing about working for XYZ Textbooks? The people working here, and the flexibility of the website. No matter what we want to do, there is a place for it on the website. For an author, it is a dream come true.
Major: Mathematics
Pets or kids? Two children, seven grandchildren.
Favorite website: e-chords.com
Favorite vacation: Going to Hawaii with the grandkids!
Favorite quote: If you think you can, or if you think you can't, you're right!
Major at Harvard: Mathematics
Favorite website: spaceweather.com/flybys
Favorite hobby: Playing quidditch
Favorite quote: "It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one." -George Harrison
Major at Cal Poly State University: Mathematics
Favorite hobby: I love Bikram Yoga and Running.
Favorite place I have traveled: Costa Rica or Hawaii
Favorite College Course Method of Proofs
Favorite video? Basic Mathematics Fractions Definitions and Properties Example #2 This is definitely my favorite video, because I was just in a silly mood when I made that video.
Favorite quote: "Be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life. "
Major at Cal Poly State University: BioMedical Engineering
Pets or kids? 2 Dogs: Buckshot, Black lab/pitbull; Willie Nelson black lab/border collie
Favorite website: theonion.com
Pet peeve: using "Pinterest" as an adjective (e.g. Did you see the pictures? It was such a Pinterest wedding.)
Favorite quote: "Cogito ergo sum" -Rene Descartes
Major at NYU: Double major: business and mathematics
Favorie flavor of ice cream: Spumoni
Favorite Pasttime: Dancing
Favorite quote: "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." -Japanese Proverb
Major at Cal Poly State University: Agricultural Business/Ag Communications
Favorite Food: Tri-tip and potatoes!
Favorite website: Pinterest. Sorry Joshua!
Favorite quote: "Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Bernard Baruch
Major: Math, of course!
Favorite Hobby: Surfing, my only real hobby.
Favorite place I have traveled: Chile
Favorite Food: Anything Mexican
Favorite College Course: Number Theory
Favorite quote? "If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed as an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!" - Henry David Thoreau "Life Without Principle"
Major at Stanford: Double major in mathematics and spanish
Favorite song: Feel it by Passafire
Favorite food: Chicken mole
Favorite hobby: Trail running
Favorite website: lifehacker.com
Favorite quote "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious (Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig" - Einstein
Major at Cal Poly State University: Liberal Studies, Math Minor
Favorite Candy: Peanut Butter M&M's
Favorite website: www.teacherspayteachers.com - Best teacher resource ever!!!
Favorite quote: "Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Major at UC Merced: Biology (emphasis Human Bio)
Things I would like to do: work in the Medical field, join the Peace Corps, go to the FIFA world cup in Brasil, learn how to play guitar, live in Europe
Favorite website: tumblr.com
Favorite quote: "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different" -Coco Chanel