There are lots of older experienced folks becoming educators and we really need more good maths teachers, good on her she if she has made the connection with the kids. Many untrained teachers get maths as a subject as they just can't find enough of them and someone has to stand at the front. I certainly would not advocate it as the quiet life though, it's bloody hard work and will easily exhaust most people. I have done 16 hour days of hard physical labour yet was still able to lift a tinnie at the end of the day. Some days I get home from school and just go to sleep. It's kind of addictive when in class. I never sit down and am just as hyper as most the kids, it really is great fun but the marking and preperation can really suck up all of your free time (not so bad in maths though
). In science we tend to be as inclusive as possible. If I write a test and questions require a personallity I use the kids names in the questions. Absolutely impossible feats have been performed by many of my students and it is not unusal to hear kids in fits of laughter when reading questions in my tests
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Mark