Kelsey Fowler is a math whiz.
At least that’s what her students say.
And through encouraging her students at Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy to believe in themselves, working problems and making mistakes alongside them, she hopes her students will become math whizzes, too.
Many of Fowler’s high school students at Chattanooga’s only all-girls public charter school have a lot of anxiety when it comes to math. The school has a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-centered curriculum and pushes its students, who often come from low-performing elementary schools, to excel.
Fowler works to ensure her students will be successful though, whether in geometry or algebra 2, by first teaching them that it’s OK to make mistakes.