Later, as a professor, he noticed a pattern. Ardila’s Black, Latino, and women students who went on to Ph.D. programs also told stories of isolation and exclusion…so Ardila…set out to create, in his own classroom, a new kind of math environment.
Federico Arcilla-Mantilla, SFSU professor, has strived to create a new culture in math. One that is more inclusive from the first day of class.