Mathematics for Elementary Teacher Candidates Workshop

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During my lovely year at teacher's college, I took a fantastic math workshop every Wednesday for twelve weeks. Below is the resulting certificate!

This workshop involved a lot of hands on strategies for teaching math and solving math problems. It enabled us students to explore different methods of problem solving, both individually and among small groups. Through exploring different math problems and discussing them, I was better able to understand multiple mathematical problem solving perspectives and conceptualize how to respond to student difficulties/alternative ways of thinking.

As this workshop was optional (yet also amazing)!

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