Karen Graham, 47, Mount Sinai math teacher, dies
Photo credit: Courtesy of Patricia (Wrobleski) Faiella | Karen Graham died of ovarian cancer Aug. 24.
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For 22 years, Karen Lynn Graham did the near-impossible -- she made math fun.
Amid the algebra, calculus and other subjects she taught at Mount Sinai High School, she'd work in a song or a joke, recalled Kelly Lynch, a fellow math teacher at the school. Silly jokes like, "What did the zero say to the eight? Nice belt."
"We teach math to high schoolers. She always found a way to make...
