Jacob Woods

Jacob Woods

he/him

I am a Phd student in Mathematics at Temple University my research interests are in the field of Applied Mathematics, I am especially interested in questions related to biology and ecology. I primarily use ODE, PDE and agent-based modeling techniques, implementing them with custom-coded numerical methods to simulate models incorporating data.

Teaching

When I teach, my goal is to help students develop critical reasoning skills and to build a student’s intuition as to when solutions to problems make sense. I want students to both build a deeper understanding of mathematics and to be able to apply their critical reasoning skills to new situations and to understand when proposed solutions to problems in the real world make sense. I have developed my teaching skills and philosophy from teaching a variety of courses at different levels as well as through mentoring young athletes as a former rock climbing coach.

Courses and Experience

Review Session: Precalculus

Undergraduate Review Session Leader, Temple University, Mathematics, 2024

Hosted Review Sessions for students in Precalculus.

Numerical Analysis Graduate Summer Review Session

Graduate Review Session Instructor, Temple University, Mathematics, 2023

Taught a summer review course for graduate students to review the material learned in their introductory numerical analysis course to prepare them for their qualifying exams.

Calculus I

Undergraduate Instructor, Temple University, Mathematics, 2022

Taught sections of Calculus I in Spring 2022 and Summer 2022/2025.

Numerical Analysis Lab

Lab Instructor, Temple University, Mathematics, 2021

Ran a lab for undergraduates to review course material and implement numerical methods in MATLAB under my supervison with demonstrations of some numerical methods.