My name is Carrie Knoll and I work in the Math Faculty at the University of Waterloo as a lecturer,
And I work specifically in the CEMC, where I'm the Lead for the Digital Resources.
The CEMC offers many online resources to support both Curricular and
Enrichment levels in Mathematics and Computer Science.
The Courseware is so... it's so multifaceted in how it can help the different students in my classroom.
There are students that use it for review,
there are students that use the interactive components,
and there are students that can dive into some of the exercise questions.
And having all of those different things going on in my classroom,
is not something I can do alone as a teacher.
The CEMC Courseware has over three hundred thousand users from dozens of different countries.
So what we put online might range from a single problem, to a few worksheets, all the way up to a full curricular resource.
The CEMC's Problem of the Week is a widely used resource. We estimate that over 1 million people view this resource every week.
So The Problem of the Week questions are really great for the students to dive into a really fun problem at their own level.
To create the CEMC courseware we have CEMC Faculty members working closely with Content Experts,
which would be grade school or high school teachers and many multimedia developers.
While most of our resources are created with students and teachers in mind,
we hope that anyone and everyone with an interest in Mathematics will use these resources.
I think it's important for students to have opportunities to work with math, when it might not be about grades or assessment.
A lot of our resources are not geared towards assessment or assessing someone's current ability in Mathematics,
but really to try and foster an interest in Mathematics, enjoyment when it comes to Mathematics, and confidence in Mathematics.