My name is Judith Koeller. I'm a lecturer with Math Faculty in the Center for Education in Math and Computing.
So the Masters for Mathematics Teachers or MMT program is a program for active Mathematics Teachers.
People all around the world take this and they're at various stages in their career.
So it's a chance for Teachers to develop their Mathematics skills both their breadth and their depth.
We offer conferences for Teachers in August. One week is for Math Teachers and one week is for Computer Science Teachers.
So that's a chance to collaborate with colleagues and see a number of presentations
around mathematics and teaching mathematics.
The MMT... top of the list as far as what has made me a better math teacher.
My love of mathematics was reinvigorated.
I brought that into the classroom.
My experience as a student gave me perspective on what they were going through.
It was giving me context for a lot of the stuff I was teaching in the classroom.
The MMT program is taken online.
About 20% of the people in the program are teaching outside of Canada.
A number of those are Canadians teaching in International schools.
So we have students in about 50 countries Mongolia, China, Sweden... just to give you an idea.
And even within Canada we have people teaching in urban centres, but also rural centers, remote places.
With 600 either graduates or current students - Teachers taking this program.
With an average of let's say 20 years left in their career and if they teach about a hundred students per year,
that's potentially 1.2 million students who could be influenced by better Math Teachers as a result.