"I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."— Albert Einstein

My teaching philosophy:

• Teaching is an art with opportunity to share the joy and passion of the underline subject/concepts with others who might engage it. In the classroom, my first goal is to extend to my students the intuitive understanding of the subject/concepts and help them in learning process and building confidence. As students approach mathematics and the abstract concepts of mathematics, some are easily intimidated and retreat from participation and learning. Hands-on instruction is an effective approach for reaching that intuitive understanding, but not always practical.

• In all of my classes, I like to use specific examples from the real world to connect the subject to their life. In an undergraduate mathematics course, this may involve something as common as measurements for cooking, or a popular topic in computational mathematics. For graduate students, that may involve putting a slide from my dissertation research on the screen to show how optimization and statistical techniques can work outside of a contrived example. Regardless, my goal is to connect the students and the subjects/concepts through familiar applications showing the value of lifelong application.