About me

I am a professor of mathematics at Ithaca College in New York, United States. I hold a PhD from Syracuse University (USA), a masters from Kenyatta University (Kenya), and a Bachelors from Egerton University (Kenya). I finished my PhD in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and my family could not travel to the United States to celebrate the achievement. Nevertheless, we have been blessed to have people here in the US who are just like family. Before moving to the US, I was a high school teacher in Kenya (Nyamauro Secondary School) where I taught mathematics and chemistry. At Nyamauro Secondary School, I also served as the Head of Science/Mathematics department and as an acting deputy principal for one year. At Ithaca college, I mainly teach statistics courses but I have also taught other courses such as calculus, basic financial mathematics, and graph theory. In my teaching, I often use methods that make it possible for students to see the connections between mathematics and daily lives because that tends to motivate them to learn the subject.

My research interests are broadly on the forms of reasoning that students engage in while working on mathematical tasks and how various forms of reasoning impact the kinds of knowledge that they create. Lately, I have been examining such reasoning forms in the context of problem posing as opposed to problem solving, which is the most common setup for studying students’ forms of reasoning.

Apart from teaching and research, I have also served in various committees such as Supporting Students (I served as Chair), and Activities Committee. In the supporting students committee, we worked on restructuring and improving the math support services to encourage more students to utilize the services. In the activities committee, we work on preparing various activities such as colloquies, women in math day, math exploration day, student presentations (e.g., summer research experience) among others.