ATYP welcomes Mr. Marty Trautman as a math instructor for our Battle Creek classes! Mr. Trautman is our guest blogger today, with a special message for his students and their families:

My name is Marty Trautman, and I'm incredibly excited to step in and help out this semester.  I graduated from Lakeview High School and then moved onto and graduated from Michigan State University in 1992.  I taught various high school math classes ranging from Pre-Algebra to Calculus and AP Statistics for 20 years at both Battle Creek Central High School and Albion High School.  Additionally, over the past 15 years, I have taught courses ranging from Developmental Math up through Calculus for Kellogg Community College as an adjunct instructor.  I was recently hired by Jackson College as well to teach math as an adjunct and just completed my first semester there this past December.  I have been married for 16 years to my wife Andrea and have a 13 year old
daughter, Gwen, and a 6 year old son, Ian.  In terms of hobbies, I enjoy reading (both novels and comic books), playing video games (Pokemon and Legend of Zelda games being my favorites), creating video games using a program called Scratch, and  watching football. I'll do my best to look out for and continue to challenge your students.