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EDN 325 Introduction

Hey Everyone, I have decided to continue using the blog that I started last semester as I found it quite easy to use. 

I am orginally from a very small town in Ohio about an hour east of Cleveland. I moved to the Carolina's in 2015 to attend UNCW and be closer to my older sister and her family. I now live in Sneads Ferry with my mom and boyfriend. 

I have an older sister, who has 2 boys and 1 girl, who I spend a lot of my time with. I also have a younger sister and a younger brother who live in Ohio with my dad and Stepmom.

I dont have much free time as I work as an office assistant and nanny for a family who owns a masonry company. But in my free time I like to relax and watch netflix, workout (mostly crossfit style workouts) shop and I would love to be able to go explore more of the world. Being from around Cleveland I am a huge Indians and Cavaliers fan, I try to be a Browns fan but that's hard. haha 
My sister, My mom, Me and My niece Allie on Thanksgiving


My Nephews Logan and Jace, my niece Allie and me being silly

The two little kids that I nanny Olivia and Max

My boyfriend and I 

Math use to be one of my favorite subjects in school until high school when I had a horrible teacher for geometry. I still enjoy math but I a hard time understanding certain things when it comes to geometry. 

When I comes to learning mathematics I feel that most of the time you just plug in numbers into a given formula which makes it kind of easy.

When it comes to teaching mathematics I worry about not being able to get all the students to understand the formulas or why you have to do what you do.

Elementary school mathematics should be fun and easy. Not too easy that it wont help them in the long run but easy enough that students dont get discouraged and give up so early. 

Being good at mathematics means not giving up when you dont figure out the right answer the first try. 

"Good" mathematics teachers show students the way to do problems but also let their students explore different ways to do the problems. They let students try and find different ways to do problems but them make them explain why and how they did it that way. 

The Person I would like to have a conversation with is Paulo Coelho he is the author of the book The Alchemist. A book I had to read my 2nd semester of college that changed my life.

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