TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

 

Virginia Tech Department of Mathematics

Integral Calculus: Math 1206

 

Taught with full responsibility, including determining and grading assignments, developing tests, holding office hours, and assigning course grades. Part of the freshman sequence for students in engineering, building construction, chemistry, computer science, geological sciences, mathematics, physics, and statistics. Topics included integration, numerical integration, integral calculus with applications, definite integrals, indefinite integrals, areas and volumes , Spring 2008

 

Integral Calculus: Math 1206, Fall 2007

 

Elem Cal W/Trig: Math 2015

Taught with full responsibility, including determining and grading assignments, developing tests, holding office hours, and assigning course grades.  Topics included numerical integration, integral calculus with applications, antiderivatives, definite integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calc, Trigonometric calculus, indefinite integrals, areas and volumes, multivariable differential calculus and elementary differential equations. This course includes a weekly one hour lab using Excel at the Math Emporium, Spring 2007.

 

Differential Calculus, Math 1205

Differential calculus for functions of a single variable. Part of the freshman sequence for students in engineering, building construction, chemistry, computer science, geological sciences, mathematics, physics, and statistics. Taught with full responsibility, including determining and grading assignments, developing tests, holding office hours, and assigning course grades.  Topics included limits, continuity, differentiation, applications of differentiation of functions of a single variable as well as integrating technology and instructing on the basics of MATLAB and Mathematica, Fall 2006.

 

Mathematics Tutor     

Assisted students from a wide range of mathematics courses, including linear algebra, differential and integral calculus, and differential equations at the Math Emporium, a campus computer facility.   Also proctored on-line tests and quizzes, August 2004 – Summer 2006. 

 

Mathematics Private Tutor, Virginia Tech, 2004-present.

Tutored many students in mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry and economics, mostly in mathematics. Tutored students for periods ranging from one time only (preparation for a test) to as long as a year (as a stand-in teacher for online courses),  including algebra, calculus, numerical analysis, and classes involving rigorous mathematical proofs: Elem Cal W/Trig, Elementary Linear Algebra, Calculus, Vector Geometry, Calculus with Matrices, Intro Diff Equations, Multivariable Calculus, Intro Discrete Math, Modern Algebra, Linear Algebra, Advanced Calculus, Numerical Methods, Fourier series and PDE, Intro to numerical Analysis, Operational Methods.