Christopher Monahan has been a national instructor and trainer for Texas Instruments' Teachers Teaching with Technology professional development organization since 2001, and has frequently blogged advice for overcoming math anxiety and other topics online for Education.TI.com. He is a retired teacher with more than thirty years of mathematics classroom experience at the college and high school levels. He is the president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State, and the author of The Everything Guide to Algebra. He lives in Gansevoort, NY.