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I love thinking about how to teach math effectively. Check out the teaching related work I've been involved in as a graduate student at UC Davis below:
During my first year at Davis, I created a math pedagogy reading course for graduate students. This has grown into a reading course that serves all graduate students in the math and applied math programs, and now runs every year as MAT 303A. I've enjoyed co-teaching that course with Korana Burke each year! I am happy to share resources about what it took to implement this course at UC Davis (a large R1 research university) and the readings I have enjoyed using the most--please reach out to me!
In 2023, I was part of a project to create a new calculus sequence at UC Davis that better prepares our students for future work. The sequence is called MAT 19, and focuses on teaching students how to apply calculus to economics and data science. Instead of 1 hour discussions, the 19 series has 2 hour weekly labs where students use R to manipulate large data sets and apply calculus to answer questions pertinent to their lives and the field of economics. Here is more info on the syllabi for 19A, 19B, and 19C.
I have mentored undergraduate students at UC Davis through the Directed Reading Program (DRP). I have worked with undergraduate students on hyperbolic knot theory, representations in knot theory, and Legendrian knot theory. More info about the DRP can be found on the DRP website. One of my mentees is now a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Oregon, and another mentee is now a high school mathematics teacher.
Instructor of Record:
MAT 19B (Second quarter calculus for data science; Summer 2026)
MAT 19B (Second quarter calculus for data science; Summer 2025)
MAT 17A (First quarter calculus for life sciences; Summer 2023)
Courses I've TA'ed:
MAT 239 (Differential Topology; graduate level course)
MAT 114 (Convex Geometry)
MAT 111 (History of Math)
MAT 22b (Differential Equations)
MAT 21B (Integral calculus)
MAT 21C (Partial derivatives and series)
MAT 19A (First quarter calculus for data science)
MAT 19B (Second quarter calculus for data science)
MAT 19C (Third quarter calculus for data science)
MAT 17B (Second quarter calculus for life sciences)
MAT 12 (Precalculus)