Dr. Rodney E. McNair likes to play golf, ride motorcycles, and working in his Koi pond. He has a PhD in mathematics education and conducts research on the use of mathematics as a means for communicating quantitative understanding. He was not always the best mathematics student. It was his metamorphosis from a below average mathematics student to a mathematics teacher that led to his belief that anybody and everybody can do mathematics, if they just make up their mind to do it. Dr. McNair has spent 23 years teaching college mathematics and learning about mathematics students. Time spent in the