Question 4: I have been teaching math in various settings for 25 years, and I think the most important quality of a math program, a math teacher, a math curriculum and a math student is enthusiasm!! If one's natural love for math shines through, then one will be eager to find the best new ways to teach math, the best applications of math in the real world that are relevant to one's students, the best explanations for math, and the best conveyance of a positive attitude that one's students can really learn this stuff!! They say the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location, and in math teaching it's enthusiasm, enthusiasm, enthusiasm. When I hear stories of adults who look back on their math careers, inevitably they point not to a particular course and its content, but to a teacher who either turned them on or turned them off to math. Math is, in my opinion, a deeply teacher-dependent subject, so teachers have to be gifted, talented, able, knowledgeable, sensitive, caring, demanding, relevant, but above all enthusiastic. A teacher's influence is eternal, and let us hope that we are continuing the many centuries of fine work that the great minds of the ages have handed down to us.