Welcome to TCMS! Have you ever wondered how your photos and videos get compressed to fit on your cell phone? Are you curious about how your favorite clothing store decides the number of pants or shirts to order? Maybe, as you think ahead about college, you may want to know how student-loan interest is calculated, and how your payments affect the pay-off time? Together we will see mathematics used as a tool to understand the world around us. We will investigate real-life contexts and learn how to use data to reason quantitatively and find meaningful connections. I promise you that this class will be different from any other math class you have taken. We are on this journey together and I am here to help you identify both your strengths and your areas for growth. We are a team and I am very excited for us to get started!