Kaninta Esmeralda

CRT is guided by understanding and intentionally incorporating your culture, home life, and family dynamic/support system. It means I capitalize on all that makes you unique, empower you to use it as strengths, and relate it to math as it fits your reality.

Similar to CRT, I use and provide resources to help build a safe, supportive, and inclusive climate that celebrates different cultural, socioeconomic, and linguistic backgrounds, and how it relates to unique instructional needs (e.g. creating content that supports English-Learners).

Trauma does not discriminate and dramatically affects learning. Trauma-informed teaching lies on 5 guiding principles: safety (physical & emotional safety), choice (you are given clear choices on how to move forward), collaboration (shared decision-making as it pertains to our goals), trust, and empowerment.

Differentiated learning refers to building lessons that respond to the needs of every learner. This means providing resources, developing materials, and varying my approach so that you can learn content deeply and effectively, regardless of where you are starting from.

Differential Equations serve as powerful tools for understanding, modeling, and predicting dynamic phenomena: events, processes, or systems that are characterized by change, motion, or evolution over time. These equations are used to study weather patterns, chemical reactions, biological growth, economic trends, and even traffic flow.

Linear algebra involves matrices (rectangular arrays of numbers, symbols, or expressions organized into rows and columns), systems of linear equations (expressions that describe a relationship between variables in a straight line), and vectors (used to represent quantities that have both magnitude and direction). This is especially important in computer graphics, cryptography, and machine learning, enabling the manipulation of multi-dimensional data.

Numerical Analysis is the art of using numeric approximation to solve problems approximately, yet accurately, when exact solutions are nearly impossible or realistically too expensive to calculate. This art of approximation can be applied to fields such as quantitative portfolio allocation (finance), risk management (business, finance, healthcare, etc.), and math/statistical software development.

Regression is a statistical technique used for scrutinizing data to highlight potential relationships between variables. Statistics is the systematic study of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to gain valuable insights and draw reliable conclusions on a given situation. Both are often used in scientific research, economic predictions, and even deciding marketing choices (think of businesses using surveys).

Most of us know of Applied Calculus - often seen in high schools and general higher education math classes. That kind of Calculus dives into fundamental principles of change and motion. However, Theoretical Calculus uses abstract symbols within mathematical equations to represent unknown quantities. They serve as general placeholders and are instrumental in solving intricate mathematical problems and formulating general rules.

Vector Analysis uses vectors (essentially arrows with magnitude and direction) to explore the behavior of objects in three-dimensional space. This approach is invaluable in understanding forces, motion, and electromagnetic fields frequently found in physics and engineering.