Teaching Statement for my website
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What teaching means to me… Sound mathematical reasoning is vital to success in the STEM disciplines. As a mathematics teacher, my primary goal is for my students to discover the power and importance of rigorous deductive reasoning. If there’s one thing I want my students to retain long after a course has finished, it’s that complex questions should be methodically dissected and known results should be applied with precision. Mathematics, with its unique blend of the general and the specific, is the perfect environment to hone these universally applicable skills. There are many challenges in…
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