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In my early education, I remember playing with what I now know as math manipulatives. I remember feeling excited and intrigued.

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I become very interested in mathematics during these grades. I really love math and feel successful. I remember learning lots of procedures.

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I start to see how math applies to the real world as I learn things like percents and decimals. I remember working on a lot of large projects where I fully immerse myself.

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I began to take advanced and AP classes. Math begins to feel competitive amongst classmates. My later years in math I am one of three females in my math classes of males.

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I take math classes where I am in large lecture halls. The classes are not very interactive and I begin to feel very confused in my math classes.

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I begin a Master's program to become a Math Specialist. I take a lot of math classes where we focus on the conceptual understanding of math.

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I teach math to elementary students. I felt nervous at first when students would not master concepts, but I begin to shift my focus on what students accomplish. We use lots of manipulatives.