I have had the "privilege" to spend time with various social groups. With the very rich and the very poor. At some point it has been a real challenge for me to survive while being forced to understand the functioning of both. As we have partially learned in the Diversity course, social inequities in the USA are abyssal. I will enter my American career as an educator with the hopes more equity, social justice and reducing those gaps and with the belief that education can make a difference. I therefore to be generous in my effort without putting any restriction.
The racial tensions, although not necessarily apparent at the surface, are still huge. Especially in the South, that carries centuries of tragic history. I do believe in positive discrimination as an active way of repairing the mistakes of the past. But have no real idea yet on how to implement that in my classroom.
I have always been attracted by mathematics and think that is it relatively easy to teach. As a students I've often wondered how to reformulate new knowledge for "invisible students". I ‘ve loved the way certain questions were introduced to me and wanted to teach and re-explain with my own words.
I believe that one needs a systematic way of thinking and there is an art and a method.
As a mathematician looking for systematic edification, as analyzing a game for which they’d be an unbeatable method of winning. I’d be interested in developing an unbeatable method of teaching math. I believe that there is one and variety and diversity would definitely be part of it.
I have always wondered if math was culturally biased, and I don’t think it is. All cultures have made contributions and made discoveries independently from each other. That’s really and inter-cultural. This is something I will definitely teach.