Melissa Braaten has been teaching adult numeracy in Boston for the last eight years, and is currently teaching at Catholic Charities Haitian Multi-Services Center in Dorchester, MA. Her educational background in is math and she specializes in teaching math to adults at all levels of math ability and confidence. Melissa has developed and facilitated courses for the SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum & Instruction PD Center, including offerings on math and ESOL, proportional reasoning, data and statistics, questioning strategies for the math classroom, and many more.