“I am proud when I hear that one of my students used what they learned in my math class in one of their other courses.”  – Rodney Ferguson

Titles: Chair of the Mathematics Department; Junior Class Advisor; Co-moderator of The Future Business Leaders of America Club
Department: Mathematics

Courses Taught:  
AP/College Calculus AB (Dual Enrollment)
AP/College Calculus BC (Dual Enrollment)
College Applied Calculus (Dual Enrollment)
College Probability and Statistics (Dual Enrollment)

Academic Degrees: 
BA, Austin College     
MS, George Mason University
    
To contact:  rferguson@middleburgacademy.org

Rodney Ferguson – who teaches multiple college-level math classes at Middleburg Academy - thinks parents might be interested to know how differently young people today learn math.  “We teach much more math now than before (up to BC Calculus or higher) and there is a much greater emphasis placed on understanding concepts and applications, rather than simple ‘plug and chug’.”  He enjoys the small school setting of Middleburg Academy and its great student/teacher ratio.  One of his ongoing challenges is to balance the needs of the class as a whole while helping the one or two students who might need to see a problem or concept again.  

Mr. Ferguson, who is Texas born and bred, has been known to make a horrible joke or pun to grab his students' attention.  However, he is not kidding when he says that when he was in high school, he never took any AP classes or AP exams!