Yuitza T. Humarán Martínez

Yuitza T. Humarán Martínez is a professor of Mathematics at UPRA. She earned her Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction - Mathematics Education from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, a Master of Sciences in Applied Mathematics, and a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics – Pure Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

She has twenty-five years of teaching experience and twenty years of experience providing professional development activities to teachers and future teachers with projects supported with federal funds.  She is a certified designer of distance learning courses and has been teaching online and hybrid Mathematics courses since 2016. 

Since 2016, she has worked as a coordinator in the Integrated Science Multi-Use Laboratory (ISMuL) at UPRA, sponsored by the Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium, providing workshops to teachers and students.  She worked as coordinator for the Leading Aerospace Education Development (LASED) funded by NASA.  From 2019 to 2021 she worked as the Liaison-Coordinator for the USDE Cooperative Tit-V project Study Tools for Undergraduates: Discover and Explore New Technological Services (STUDENTS).

She has been interested in research and implementation of innovative methods and tools to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics from elementary to undergraduate level.  She has also conducted research in the classroom as well as coached teachers from K-12.