This is my princess Maggie.. She is a British Bulldog. I was lucky enough to adopt Maggie from an elderly lady 6 months ago. Since Maggie has been in my life I have been the happiest person alive.
She makes me so happy and brings so much joy and laughter to my life.
She is a character, full of life and has the best personality.
Maggie loves to cuddle up to you on a cold night and give lots of kisses

Teaching Fractions is something I am very passionate about. It is one of those topics that if a simple misunderstanding is learnt then it becomes very difficult for the student to understand anything regarding Fractions until that misconception has been corrected.
Five years ago, I myself suffered the same problem many students face today and that is being afraid to ask for help if unsure of a mathematical term. 
In 2009, I was studying to become a teacher at University and as a pre-requisite to pass the degree you had to pass this difficult maths test.
Any test can be daunting but for me, there was added pressure with this test..
If you fail the test you fail the course... 
The one topic that seemed to get the better of me was FRACTIONS..
I was stressing myself out until this one particular afternoon where I asked my father for help. It took my father 30 minutes to bridge the misconception I was experiencing and since that moment, it has become my favourite topic to teach. 
I have shared this experience because I want my students to know that it is OK to ask for help :)

 

Something I have really enjoyed of late is writing articles for the education papers 'Common Denominator' and 'Prime Number'. I have had several of my lessons featured in a number of articles for these papers.
The most recent was an activity named 'All in One'. All in One was an engaging and thrilling activity that consisted of a hands-on approach to learning. The activity had a main focus on understanding percentages. However within this lesson many sub topics were being taught and learnt.
I was really proud of how the students' threw themselves at this activity and by the end I was watching the learning and teaching of my students. As a teacher the most rewarding thing is seing the achievement on my students' faces. This is a lesson that I will always remember and tuck it safe into my memory bank.
Michael N