If you are a current student, you can find all information for the course on eLearn (Canvas). 

*This website was converted from html and many of the pages and pdfs which were available before are not linked. Currently available: versions of UMD math 730 (graduate topology) and UIUC math 181 (math appreciation) websites. Feel free to email me if you would like access to something which is not available. 

Currently teaching

• Math 145B Introduction to Topology part 2

Past courses taught

• Math 5/5A, Precalculus/Principles of Calculus I, Winter 2021, Winter 2024

• Math 6A, Introduction to Functions I, 2 sections Fall 2022, 1 section Fall 2023

• Math 6B, Introduction to Functions II, 2 sections, Winter 2023

• Math 7B, Calculus for Life Sciences (integrals), Spring 2021

• Math 9B, First Year Calculus (integrals), Fall 2020 (2 sections), Fall 2021 (2 sections)

• Math 133, Geometry, Spring 2023

• Math 136, Introduction to Number Theory, Spring 2022

• Math 144, Set Theory, Fall 2023, Winter 2024

• Math 145B, Introduction to Topology part 2, Spring 2021, Spring 2024

• Math 171, Introduction to Abstract Algebra, Winter 2021

• Math 194, reading course on category theory, Summer 2021 (2 students) , Fall 2022 (1 student) 

• Math 197, undergraduate research (2 students), Fall 2021

• Math 260, Teaching Practices Seminar, Winter 2023, 2024 (co-taught with Amir Moradifam)

• Math 302, Apprentice Teaching (co-taught with Sara Lapan), Fall 2023

• Faculty mentor for Math 299T, STIC: Homotopy Type Theory, Spring 2019

All lectures for 299T were given by Jacob Prinz. Incomplete notes written for this course by Jacob can be found here. 

•  Math 120 Elementary Calculus I, Spring 2019, Fall 2017

•  Math 246H, Differential Equations (honors), Spring 2019

•  Math 730 Fundamental Concepts of Topology (graduate class), Fall 2018

•  Math 130 Calculus I for the Life Sciences, Spring 2018

•  Math 405 Linear Algebra, Spring 2018

•  Math 432 Introduction to Topology, Fall 2017

•  Math 310 Introduction to Proof, Spring 2016

• Math 220 Elementary Calculus I, Fall 2016

• Math 406 Elementary Number Theory,  Fall 2016

• Math  181 A Mathematical World, Spring 2016 (standalone)

• Math  220 Calculus I, Spring 2015 (TA for Bob Murphy)

• Math 115 Precalculus (for Access and Achievement Program), Fall 2014 (standalone)

• Math  117 Elementary Mathematics (for teachers), Fall 2013  (Lab for April Hoffmeister)

• Math 231 Calculus II, Spring 2013 (TA for Randy McCarthy)

• Math 221 Calculus I, Fall 2012 (TA for Dr. Whittlesey)

• Math 220 Calculus I, Spring 2012 (standalone)

• Math 221 Calculus I,  Fall 2011 (TA)

• Math 234 Business Calculus, Spring 2011 (TA for Dr. Rosenblatt)

• Math 220 Calculus I, Fall 2010 (TA for Bob Murphy)

• Math 1050 PREP Intermediate College Algebra with Trig, Spring/Summer 2010

• Math 1120 Math for Elementary Teachers, semester 2, Fall 2009

• Stat 1020 Elementary Statistics, Winter 2010

• Math 1800 Elementary Functions (pre-calculus), Spring/Summer 2009

• Math 1050 Intermediate College Algebra with Trig, Winter 2009

As an undergraduate honors project, fellow classmate Sara Bratek and I designed an elementary math education curriculum field trip packet for the  Heidelberg project of Detroit. Unfortunately, much of the project has since burned down or been dismantled. 

Art >> Arson

• Outstanding VAP award, UCR, Spring 2022

• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction, UIUC, Spring 2016

• Brahana TA instructional award, UIUC, Spring 2013

• Excellence in the first year of teaching, WSU, Spring 2010

•  Epsilon-delta proofs for calculus students

•  Pushouts in topology

• Course notes for graduate algebraic topology

• If you're going to doodle in class,  at least make it interesting.