Dylan McKnight

Dylan Mcknight is a Math Teacher and all-around nerd from Asheville, North Carolina. Originally born in Apex NC, he moved to the mountains at a young age and has called them home ever since. With dual teaching licenses in Math and Theater, Dylan has spent his time teaching in classrooms and acting on community stages when outside of them. 

Dylan’s path to teaching traces back to his mother, a lifelong educator and administrator who brought him along to Masters classes, office hours, and teacher workdays, offering Dylan the opportunity to see “behind the scenes” of teaching from a young age. His mother also served as the main costumer for a variety of local theater productions including Montford, ACT, and many others. In short, Dylan grew up in classrooms and back stages. After being involved in school and community theater from Elementary to High school, Dylan attended UNCG and received his bachelors in Theatre Education and shortly thereafter also attained his teaching license in Mathematics. Though he has bounced back and forth between teaching theatre and math, two subjects usually considered opposites, Dylan has now found a happy compromise by putting extra drama, energy, and storytelling into the process of teaching math.

Dylan’s philosophy of Math centers around the narrative of Mathematics, its history, and its main characters. Why do we use the symbols and terms that we use? Who invented these methods? Which parts of math did we make up, and which parts are fundamental to the universe?  These are the questions he wants his students asking, because he can’t stop asking them himself.

In his free time, Dylan enjoys travel (he has been everywhere from China to Italy, Alaska to Ireland), playing video games (by himself) and table top games (with his friends).  Theatre is a passion that he doesn’t have as much time for, but when he can, he still pursues writing silly one act plays, whether they are performed or not.