Maggie Martin Connell

Helping students, teachers and parents make absolute sense of the math they encounter has fascinated Maggie throughout her career. She has long been a strong advocate of 'accessible math', where ALL learners engage in sense-making through direct, non-threatening experiences with the ideas.

Maggie has been sharing her enthusiasm for twenty-five years: as a classroom teacher where she was the recipient of the Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teachers award, as an instructor of Math Methodology at the University of New Brunswick and as an international speaker and presenter of meaningful mathematics. Her participant-friendly sessions are hugely popular with teachers and parents alike.

Her creativity, high standard and infectious enthusiasm are evidenced in all she does. In 2002 Maggie retired from her position as a math coach/mentor to pursue her vision of what could make a difference in mathematics education.

As founder of MC2 Education Consultants and Think-Links Press she continues to inspire audiences through her dynamic sessions and her writing.

Maggie is now the creator of her own series, "I Get It!"…a guide for the mathematically undiscovered where she shows how ALL math can, and should, make sense.

...because absolutely nothing in math is hard; it’s what we say about the math we see that makes
it hard.

As teachers and crafters of words we need to make sure that what we say is just a natural extension of the mathematical models we see.

If the words we use don’t paint a perfect ‘mind picture’, they simply are not good enough.