Janice Baldwin

Middle School math

Janice Baldwin teaches honors math in Middle School. She has taught at USJ for 27 years. She has a bachelor of science degree from Texas A & M University at Corpus Christi.

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"Middle School Math: Learning how to problem solve" (click link to read article)

 

 

 

A trip around the world

When Janice and Charles Baldwin learned about a trip around the world offered by Corning Glassware to an educator who used its products in the lab, the Baldwins decided to use their math and science skills to win that trip. It was 1975. Janice was teaching at EDS, and her husband, Charles, was a chemistry teacher at Union.
All you had to do was fill out an entry form and mail it in. The winning entry would be hand drawn from a container filled with the forms.

That's when the Baldwins experimented in folding the entry form in different ways to find out which fold increased the chances of an entry being drawn. Janice would then fold forms that way and mail in a few each day, separately.

The Baldwins' entry was drawn; they had won the trip for educators. For 35 days that summer, they traveled the world visiting many significant scientific sites, such as Marie Curie's lab in Paris; Einstein's lab in Berne, Switzerland; the Pergamon Museum in east Berlin; and the monastery in Czechoslovakia where Gregor Mendel worked.

Years later, Janice used the same folding technique when she entered a drawing for a necklace at a Jackson Symphony performance. She won the necklace.