Teaching

As a mathematician and mathematics educator, I subscribe to Ardila's axioms (Federico Ardila's website).

The axioms are: 

1. Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.

2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.

3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.

4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.

In mathematics, axioms are statements that are understood to be self-evident and form the basis of all work within a field. It is my responsibility to have Ardila's axioms be self-evident to all students in my class and to have them form the basis of  all my work as an educator.