My most memorable teacher was Mrs. Shiply. She taught junior high math in a way that was fun and energetic but also informative. Mrs. Shiply was great with her students and yet kept us in line. She combined knowledge, patience and understanding to make the time in her classes easier on all of us. I don’t recall a time where she lost her cool in front of the students. “The world is one equation,” she would always explain. Her skill at maintaining students’ attention combined with a sense of humor allowed us to see her - just simply as a teacher - but a role model. Her theory of equations was expressed in the idea that if a person took the time they could accurately calculate each mystery as another complex mathematical formula; once you understood the process there would be no more mysteries.