Nominated (by Department of Mathematics) for the 2020 Garrett T. Heberlein Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching for Graduate Students, Wayne State University.
Teaching Training
- Professional Development Program (Fall 2021), Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan.
- Teaching Mathematics in College (Fall 2016, Wayne State University): A semester-long course focusing on presentation, test-writing, grading, classroom management, and use of technology.
- Teaching online courses via Zoom and Big Blue Button on Canvas for Statistics Classes.
- B.S. in Education with 2 three-month internships at Trung Vuong high school and Tay Son high School.
- Attending the innovative educators’ virtual summit- Hawkes Learning.
Teaching Experience
Courses taught with full responsibility:
- Fall 2022: MATH 471 (Numerical Methods– Graduate Level) Section 0xx and Section 0xx at the University of Michigan.
- Summer 2022: MATH 471 (Numerical Methods – Graduate Level) Section 201 at the University of Michigan. Please click here to see all the details of the course.
- Winter 2022: MATH 116 (Calculus 2) Section 041 and Section 061 at the University of Michigan: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/courses/116/index.html
- Fall 2021: MATH 115 (Calculus 1) Section 026 and Section 046 at the University of Michigan.
- Spring/ Summer 2020 (Online): MAT 1020 (Statistics), 3 credits; SET-S20 and Evaluations SS20.
- Winter 2020 (Hybrid): MAT 1020 (Statistics), 3 credits; SET-W20 and Evaluations W20.
- Fall 2019: MAT 1800 (Elementary Functions), 4 credits; Nominated (by Department of Mathematics) for the 2020 Garrett T. Heberlein Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching for Graduate Students, Wayne State University; Evaluations F19
- Winter 2019: MAT 2010 (Calculus 1), 4 credits; SET-W19 and Evaluations W19
- Spring/ Summer 2018: MAT 1800 (Elementary Functions), 4 credits; SET-S18 and Evaluations SS2018
- Winter 2018: MAT 1050 (Algebra with Trigonometry), 5 credits; Evaluations W2018
- Fall 2017: MAT 1050 (Algebra with Trigonometry), 5 credits; SET-F17 and Evaluations F1050
Rate my Professors: Nguyen-Truc-Dao Nguyen
Summary Report: https://testing.wayne.edu/evaluation/search?professor=gc9683&submit=Search+by+Professor
Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) – Testing, Evaluation & Research Services
Kahoot games for my Statistics Classes: Link: Introduction to Statistics
Useful Links and More
Below is a list of links/things you may find useful (Dao will add more as we see more useful things during the semester):
- Umich provides Mathworks software access (including Matlab and the tutorials) to students for free. Please read this (Links to an external site.) for how to download and update license.
- Mathworks tutorial on Matlab. (Links to an external site.)
- If you are interested in learning how to type math documents, you may want to check out the LaTeX page (Links to an external site.)or online LaTeX compiling software such as overleaf (Links to an external site.).
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) student website, (Links to an external site.)free student membership (Links to an external site.), and the SIAM student chapter (Links to an external site.) at Umich.
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) website (Links to an external site.) and the AWM student chapter (Links to an external site.) at Umich.
- Some numerical analysis textbook Dao used/read before other than the Bradie book:
- Numerical Analysis by J. Douglas Faires and Richard L. Burden: It covers a wide range of topics and is easy to read for a first-time introduction to numerical methods.
- An Introduction to Numerical Analysis by Endre Süli and David F. Mayers: This book has more theory and explains lots of things pretty thoroughly.
- Numerical Linear Algebra by Lloyd N. Trefethen and David Bau III: a quick reference book.
- An Introduction to Numerical Analysis by Kendall Atkinson: another reference book.
- Numerical Analysis by Timothy Sauer: This textbook is similar to Faires and Burden in terms of coverage of topics and level of difficulty, so it should also serve well as an easy-to-read first-time introduction to numerical methods. This book also has lots of Matlab demos.
Connect with Your Classmates!
Connections and interactions are important! Check out our course’s introduction slides (Links to an external site.) if you haven’t done so.
This semester’s 471 is a much larger class than usual, which means you get to know more peers who are also interested in math and programming. So please take advantage of this!
In addition to the introduction slides, we will use the course Piazza site (Links to an external site.) for interaction and Q & A.
Your instructor has also enabled this Canvas “Discussions” module as a place you can connect with each other. A few examples of ways you could use this:
- Share contact information (if you so choose).
- Make plans to meet on Zoom. (Note that you can create your own Zoom meetings at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting (Links to an external site.) .)
(Wayne State University 2016 – My first class)
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