The Man Behind The Chart
His business card reads "Systems Mathematics Writing", but for the last 2 years he has been working as the Computer Science Chairman at Cincinnati Country Day School and training his fellow teachers in creating websites.

Professionally active in a field of applied mathematics, computer programming and systems analysis, The X·Y Chart™ creator Joe Speier finds much of his intellectual energy consumed by a non-existent class of math students.

This husband and father of 5 has tried to balance earning a living in the computer software field with designing educational posters for many years. The X·Y Chart™ is the result of a decade of wondering how to teach multiplication in an effective visual manner.

Joe is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He majored in German at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, taught a semester of grade school in Cincinnati, directed a youth program for four years in Berlin, Germany, taught high school for two years in Philadelphia and computer programming languages for three years at Miami University in Ohio.

When not on a teaching assignment, Joe works as an independent programmer/analyst designing and programming algorithms for businesses in the United States, Canada, France, and Germany.

Before turning his attention to helping students master basic math; Joe created the "How Are You Feeling Today?" chart, a visual tool to help people identify their feelings, illustrated by Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman.