Tuyetdong Phan-Yamada joined the Computer Science Department as a visiting professor in 2023, where she teaches Introductory Statistics.
Her teaching history, however, begins in her native country of Vietnam, where in 1989 she completed her pedagogy program and began her career as a Physics and Math middle school teacher. She immigrated to the United States in 1994, where she again studied to be a teacher; graduating from the University of California, Irvine in 2002 with a B.S. in Mathematics, and in 2004 with her Single Subject Math Teaching Credential. Tuyetdong Phan-Yamada finished her M.S. degree in Mathematics in 2010 at CSU Los Angeles.
Mrs. Phan-Yamada has taught math courses at many levels. She has taught: Geometry, College Algebra, Trigonometry, Statistics, Math for Elementary Teachers, Math for Liberal Arts, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Linear Algebra and Discrete Math at public high schools and colleges in the Los Angeles area from 2004 to present.
Mrs. Phan-Yamada enjoys building interactive graphical illustrations with GeoGebra, which she integrates into her lesson plans in Statistics, Trigonometry, and Calculus courses. She has presented much of this work . Her paper, was on the front page of MathAMATYC Educator Journal for September 2014. She extended her computational activities from the classroom to industry practice as a Summer'14 faculty research fellow at JPL, Pasadena. Tuyetdong is passionate about the subject of Mathematics and Statistics, best practices for teaching Mathematics to children and adults, and the use of Mathematics as a language for understanding the world and bringing people together.
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