Growing up, Abigail Preiwisch knew two things.

 One, she wanted to be a teacher. Two, she hated math. She hated it for the entirety of her K-12 career, color coding math as green- her least favorite color.

“But I’ve realized just how math is in everything,” Preiwisch said. “Absolutely everything and how, how beautiful it is… I think that’s something that unfortunately, sometimes we miss in the classroom is how much fun mathematics can be because I thought it was just ‘I’d have to repeat this formula over and over again.’ I was really missing the beauty that I see in it now.”

Preiwisch also loves math for its creativity and sharpening her critical thinking skills. She is teaching Geometry and Algebra 2 for her first year of teaching. 

Raised in the Chicago area with a mother who lives near Detroit, Preiwisch also attended a REU program at MSU for eight weeks. In her free time, Preiwisch enjoys fencing, theater and reading. As a devout Catholic, she also arranges her schedule to make time for prayer.

She recently graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, with a degree in education with a concentration in mathematics. As a student, teachers were the bulk of Preiwisch’s role models and building relationships is something she has focused on despite online learning.

“I love, I love helping students,” Preiwisch emphasizes. “I love those personal relationships. I know how important a teacher can be in a student’s life… And one of my favorite moments is like leading a student to that point where they’re like, ‘Oh! I get it now!’… And so if I can even be like a little part of that process, that is very rewarding for me.”