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I'm Mariana, your go-to math enthusiast.

Whether you're a grown-up saying ciao to math frustrations, a teenager navigating the exciting world of functions, or kiddo ready for a magical math fraction journey, buckle up for some fun! Together, we'll tackle challenges, unravel math mysteries, and make learning a blast for everyone! 🚀🔢✨

With over ten years of teaching experience - from classrooms in my home country, Macedonia, to after-school programs in Vancouver, BC, Canada - I'm now on the online tutoring scene, running my own tutoring business.

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Bedtime Math- book review

In the series of Books Bedtime Math, by author Laura Overdeck, we get familiar some fun facts 😀 There are four Bedtime Math books: Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late Bedtime Math: This Time It’s Personal Bedtime Math: The Truth Comes Out Bedtime Math: How Many Guinea Pigs Can Fit on a Plane? I read two of them, for which I'm going to share my personal impression. The first book that I read was the Bedtime Math: The Truth Comes Out. That books consists of 40 fun facts fitted into paragraph-long texts. Besides the facts, on the next side (one title covers two pages) you can see math-related questions on three levels of understanding math + the bonus question. The questions range from pre-K up to G7 maybe, although some bonus-problems are really tricky. I learned nice fun facts. The most interesting for me was the "Staring Contest", where the author is sharing the fact the camels have a 3 eyelids! Wow! Isn't that weird? 😀 To summarize, this book is fun-...

Is there any chance...?

One quote that caught my attention from the book Student Engagement Techniques by Elizabeth Barkley and Claire Howell Major (2020) is: “Students must have confidence that, with appropriate effort, they can succeed. If there is no hope, there is no motivation” (p. 20). Although hope was the last thing left in Pandora’s box, the authors suggest that for students, hope is the first condition for success. Without it, motivation cannot exist. This quote comes from Chapter 2, “Engagement and Motivation.” I came across couple of strong candidates for my reflection from both Chapters 1 and Chapter 2. One idea I found particularly intriguing as a mathematician is what I like to call the ‘zero-product property,’ where the authors emphasize that it's about the product, not the sum. However, after reading the quote: “Students must have confidence that, with appropriate effort, they can succeed. If there is no hope, there is no motivation” (Barkley & Major, 2020, p. 20)—I immediately sto...

Trends in My Field

There are four of us, so more than half are present! Hello, my dear subscribers! In this post, I will share my thoughts on one article about Women in Mathematics. Almost twenty years ago back, in high school, I was part of a Calculus class of around thirty students. When there would be four of us, the girls, in some setting, we would joke: "Looks like more than fifty percent of the girls are here." Reflecting now, I realize how we found humor in a reality that was an undeniable part of our daily lives. By the way, if you can sense a word problem 🧮 you are right! The question is: What is the lowest possible number of girls in the class? (Hint: I dedicate this post to ALL my girlfriends from the Calc class: Aleksandra, Bibe, Emilia, Irena, Ivana, and Viktoria.) This blog post is part of my homework for one of my PIDP courses (check out their Facebook page here), and the topic I picked is my always-and-forever-theme Women in Mathematics, or more generally, STEM. Plus, the 8th ...

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