About
I earned my B.S. in Physics here at U-M, and taught high school and college math and physics for two years in Fiji. Later, after returning to the U.S., I tutored these subjects for several years before returning to U-M to complete my secondary teacher certification. These education classes sparked a deeper interest in the social, cultural, and historical underpinnings of our current educational systems, and eventually led me to pursue an M.A. from EMU in Social Foundations of Education and a Ph.D. from U-M in Educational Studies. My research work with both preservice and inservice math teachers highlighted the importance as well as the challenges of teaching and learning mathematics in socially meaningful and contextualized ways.
My favorite thing about teaching in CSP is the dazzling array of talented, kind, and motivated undergraduates I am privileged to work with every semester. Students in my introductory math classes can expect to work hard, meet intellectual challenges, and discover that they are capable of producing mathematical knowledge. Especially those who do not think they are “math people” will end up contributing significant insights to the class and leading their small-group teams to success. Above all, every student can expect to be known, appreciated, and supported as a human being first.
