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Hey everyone, welcome to the blog!

    My name is Maya Cunningham and I am in my first year of Teachers College at Brock University with teachables in Math and Chemistry. I created this blog to reflect on my EDBE 8F83 course called I/S Teaching Mathematics Part 1 where I am being introduced to the Ontario Intermediate/Senior curriculum in Mathematics. I will be reflecting on what I was presented in class by responding to different questions, ideas and information. This leads into why I chose my title (Maya's Math Blog); to discuss math! I hope that some of the ideas I mention are ones that you all can reflect on and hopefully understand (or at least see where I'm coming from). 

    My overall goal for this course is to develop myself as a future math educator. I believe that although I know lots about math, I don't know a ton about teaching math. I hope that I can learn different strategies and tools in this class that I will be able to implement in my future classroom. As well, I look forward to learning from and growing with my classmates. I love to learn from my peers and am excited to get to know you all better!

    I hope you all are excited for our journey together, I know I am!

See you soon!

Maya <3

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