Assoc ProfessorMiguel Bustamante

Teaching must be excellent and research-inspired. Lectures must be prepared in advance, use examples, and gradually increase the difficulty level up to the highest. Emphasis is on students' active learning via in-class discussions and take-home assignments. Advanced students are challenged to solve "Bonus Questions", of the highest difficulty.

Innovation and Leadership

Following Honey&Mumford's learner classification [Ho82], traditionally the majority of my students are Theoretical-Learners (60%), followed by Pragmatic-Learners (30%), and then Reflective-Learners and Activist-Learners (10%). But the process of learning mathematics is a mixture of four activities: understanding (T-Learners), thinking-evaluating (R-Learners), creating (A-Learners) and solving (P-Learners). Evidence of this mixture is found in the classification by Gardner [Ga93] of "Logical/Mathematical Intelligence". By incorporating new teaching techniques that target beyond theoretical and pragmatic learners, I can improve significantly my students' learning process.