NAME:
Malee Jergensen
SCHOOL:
Wasatch Jr. High
CLASS:
PreAlgebra 7X /Algebra 1 (9th graders)
SCHOOL PHONE:
385-646-5244
Ms. Jergensen grew up in the great state of Idaho. She lived in a small
farming community, where her back yard was and still is the Snake River. Her
father owned the Farmers Equity and a grain elevator. He also farmed 180
acres of dry farm land that is adjacent to the Teton Dam site. (This dry
farm land now has a well on it and we now can grow both potatoes and grain).
Ms. Jergensen learned to drive grain trucks, swim, and play sports at a
very young age. She loved her carefree life. When she was 11 years old her
father died suddenly and this changed her family's life forever. Because of
her father's death she and her family moved to Salt Lake where her mother
taught English at the University of Utah. She left all her friends and
started Jr. High in Salt Lake. She didn't like the big city and she really
didn't like Jr. High. The only joy in her life was when the bell rang on the
last day of school and she could go back to Idaho for the summer. Her ninth
grade year she had a wonderful teacher who changed her life. She learned to
like Salt Lake and she loved Jr. High, this is when she decided to teach.
Ms. Jergensen attended the University of Utah (Go Utes)where she
received her bacholors in Physical Education with a minor in Health Education
and a minor in Mathematics. She decided not to teach when she graduated, but
left for the sunny skies of California where she worked for two years for a
Dentist. She missed the seasons, and decided to come back to Utah and teach.
She started her first job of teaching at Brockbank Jr. High in 1982 where she
stayed for six year. She transferred to Wasatch Jr. where she is currently
teaching math.
Ms. Jergensen still goes home every summer to that small town where she
drives grain and potato trucks, floats on the Snake River daily, mows the
lawn, takes care of her garden, plays city league softball and enjoys her
family, (especially when they all come to visit). The summer of 2002 the
Jergensen's all gathered in Idaho for the funeral of their mom. All the
children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren attended her funeral on the
hottest day in July in an air conditioned church. After the funeral you
could find all of us in that glorious Snake River swimming down from the back
of our house to the sand bar. Their mom and dad would have been happy,
because this is what they taught us all to do. Enjoy life! "Life is not
measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our
breath away."
I. THOU SHALT READ THE PROBLEM FROM BEGINNING TO END.
II. WHATSOEVER THOU DOEST TO ONE SIDE OF YE EQUATION, DO YE ALSO TO
THE OTHER.
III. THOU MUST USE THE "COMMON SENSE," ELSE THOU WILT HAVE FLAGPOLES
9000 FEET IN HEIGHT, YEA...EVEN FATHERS YOUNGER THAN SONS.
IV. THOU SHALT IGNORE THE TEACHINGS OF FALSE PROPHETS TO DO ALL WORK
IN THY HEAD.
V. WHEN THOU KNOWEST NOT, THOU SHALT LOOK IT UP, AND IF THY SEARCH
STILL ELUDE THEE, THEN THOU SHALT ASK THE ALL-KNOWING TEACHER.
VI. THOU SHALT MASTER EACH STEP BEFORE PUTTING THY HEAVY FOOT DOWN ON THE
NEXT.
VII. THY CORRECT ANSWER DOES NOT PROVE THAT THOU HAST WORKED THY PROBLEM
CORRECTLY. THIS ARGUMENT CONVINCEST NONE, LEAST OF ALL...THE TEACHER.
VIII. THOU SHALT FIRST SEE THAT THOU HAST COPIED THY PROBLEM CORRECTLY
BEFORE BEARING FALSE WITNESS THAT THE ANSWER BOOK LIETH.
XI. THOU SHALT LOOK BACK EVEN UNTO THY YOUTH AND REMEMBER THY ARITHMETIC.
X. THOU SHALT LEARN, SPEAK, WRITE, AND LISTEN CORRECTLY IN THE LANGUAGE
OF MATHEMATICS AND VERILY A's AND B's SHALL FOLLOW THEE EVEN UNTO
GRADUATION.
