Introduction - The Happy Math Teacher

Hello! My name is Rosemary and I am a retired primary teacher. I will be writing the math portion of our blogs. I hold specialist qualifications in Primary/Junior math and in Primary Education. During my career, I participated in a variety of math-related professional development activities including giving workshops at the board level, attending a week-long seminar on teaching geometry with the MOE, representing our board at a provincial ETFO seminar and participating on the committee to choose a math program for our board. I have taught grade 3 math for a number of years and participated in EQAO with stellar results.

Now that I am retired, I am writing math resources, aligned with the new Ontario Math Curriculum 2020 for the primary grades on Teachers Pay Teachers. These include guided teaching slides, student worksheets and answer pages. I am a firm believer in hands-on, constructivist-type math activities for students along with math journals and learning how to "explain your thinking". Still, students need to be able to show what they have learned on paper. As such, they need worksheets.

Hopefully, I can shed some light on how to engage students in math, develop their skills in problem solving and, most of all, to enjoy math.

For an example of some of my work, check out this geometry unit for Grade 2.

Grade 2 Geometric and Spatial Reasoning - Ontario Math Curriculum 2020 (teacherspayteachers.com)

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