Veteran teacher Anthony DiGiovanni has brought his unique style of teaching to Trinity this year. DiGiovanni, a new mathematics teacher and the new head basketball coach, studied at Colgate University in New York. He has taught at multiple schools across the country, carrying a grand total of nineteen years of teaching in multiple topics.

DiGiovanni has experience teaching almost all areas of math, various history courses and economics.

“I’ve taught everything: middle school for the last four years, and prior to that I taught high school for fourteen years, teaching everything from calculus to basic skills math,” DiGiovanni said.

“I’m also certified to teach history and economics, so I’ve [taught] U.S. history, world history and economics.”

When he lived in New Jersey, DiGiovanni taught at Union High School, New Brunswick High School and Saint Anthony High School. In Florida, DiGiovanni continued his teaching career Spanish River High School in Boca Raton for two years and taught most recently at the Benjamin School in Palm Beach County.

DiGiovanni wants to take a unique approach in teaching mathematics, incorporating his background in teaching history and economics into math problems. DiGiovanni does this both to connect the subject to the real world and to make math appeal to students. His goal in teaching is to associate math not only with textbook based literature, but also with real world scenarios.

“I try to get math to connect outside of the textbook,” DiGiovanni said. “Having been [both] a history and an economics teacher, I try to connect math to history and business models.”

To bring this connection to life, DiGiovanni plans to integrate history into his lessons about similar figures:

“We’ll use shadows and create similar figures, and then we will talk about how Eratosthenes used shadows back in 250 B.C.E. in Alexandria, Egypt to measure the circumference of a circle,” DiGiovanni said.

Through this method, DiGiovanni hopes to both spark his students’ interests in mathematics and open their eyes to the subject’s everyday applications.