My name is Laura Hamilton. I am in the Initial Licensure Program for elementary education. Because of this, my recent experience with school math is extremely limited. I graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in communications, so it has been 10 years since I have seen textbook mathematics.
From elementary to high school I do not remember much of anything math related. I do remember taking statistics in college, but I do not remember any specifics. I also remember having to buy an expensive scientific calculator and using that to figure out certain math problems. I still have the calculator, but now I just use it for basic math calculations.
Throughout my professional career I have used a lot of math, but I have often set up Microsoft Excel to do all of my calculations. I have just come up with the formulas to plug into Excel to make it do what I want it to do. I usually utilized Excel to figure out budget tracking calculations. I also used Excel to come up with other calculations depending on what I was working on at the time.
Now that I am attending school full-time again, I usually use Excel to keep track of my household budget. I do like math and I really love Excel. I unfortunately just do not remember a lot about math as it relates to learning in school settings. I am looking forward to learning best practices to utilize in teaching elementary mathematics!
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