Maureen Ricciuto thanks her mother for her gift of teaching and her father for his gift of numbers. She also says the curiosity of students has helped her stay interested in the perpetual adventure of learning.
Maureen’s early learning started at St. Mary’s School in Deep River. She went to Our Lady’s H.S. in Pembroke, then St. Patrick’s College at the University of Ottawa. She has also studied at Queen’s University, the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo.
In her first two teaching jobs, at Laurentian H.S. in Ottawa and Cedarbrae C.I. in Scarborough, Maureen taught mathematics and Latin. She later taught at Sir Adam Beck S.S. in London, College Ave. S.S, in Woodstock, and then Dunbarton H.S. in Pickering where she stayed for 28 years and was department head.
Maureen has been a curriculum writer and has been involved with O.S.S.T.F. and with O.A.M.E. She was also the first president of the Mathematics Subject Council in Durham Region. She has served on the Cayley Contest problems committee at the University of Waterloo. Her favourite areas of mathematics are Euclidean geometry and fractal geometry.
Playing the piano, bridge, painting, cycling, and cottaging along the Ottawa River are special interests for Maureen.