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Welcome to my weekly math blog! My name is Christian Ferracuti and I am a teacher candidate at Brock University in the first year of the two-year consecutive education program. The title of my blog “J/I Math” represents the grade divisions that I hope to teach in the near future. In this blog you can expect updates on the different teaching techniques that can be used to teach the 21st century learner. Math education has changed rapidly over the past ten years and new teaching methods have been created. Over the next 3 months I will be posting weekly updates to the teaching concepts that will help math students have fun and be successful in math. Throughout this course I hope to learn how to teach math in an inviting way as well as learning math concepts that I will be able to retain. I also hope that this course will show me that math is a fun subject and not only certain students are able to be successful. Throughout my own math education, formulas were taught and expected to be memorized by the students in order to pass the course. With two weeks of the class completed it was very apparent to me that this is not the way math is taught anymore. The use of physical objects to help engage the students as well as help them create their own way of learning is a fascinating concept which I want to learn more of. Below there is a picture of the objects that we used in the previous math class. The use of physical objects/material was able to help me understand the math and will surely help the students. The main goal for this course is to become a strong math educator. The interest that a student has in the subject is related to the abilities of the teacher and the way that they teach. I hope that this course will enable me to become a great educator for math so that the future generation embraces the subject and is not afraid of math. In closing I invite you back to my blog for weekly updates. In the upcoming weeks I hope to document more of my experiences in the math class especially the use of materials to increase learning. I will also update the readers on how the materials were incorporated into the lesson and the other ways that the lesson can be taught. Hopefully through explaining the use of the materials will give myself or other teacher candidates more resources to use in the future when teaching math.