My name is Valentina Muñoz-Porras and this is my personal page:
I work at CIMAT as an outreach mathematician.
Work
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2020 to present. Técnico académico titular at Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT). Outreach department.
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2018-2019 Postdoctoral position. CINVESTAV IPN. Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute. Frontier Science Conacyt Project. FC-2016-2-2347
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2008-2017 Technology-enhanced Mathematics Education.
- Design and develop rich, interactive content, problems and tasks to help learners explore, discover, make sense, and understand math concepts.
- Write documentation and guidelines to inspire teachers to use materials in certain ways.
- Write math items for middle school practice assessment materials aligned to Mexican Ministry of Education standards.
I have provided those services as a freelance for multiple clients including:
- Grupo SM Publisher, Mexico City
- Macmillan Publishers, Mexico City
- UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
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2006 - Worked at Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa designing and developing rich digital interactive math content for the national minitstry of education.
Education
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2015 - Ph. D. Mathematics Education. CINVESTAV IPN. Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute. Thesis title: Ad-hoc tool for developing structure sense in high school algebra. Advisor: Teresa Rojano-Ceballos Mexico City.
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2009 - M. Eng. Computer Science. UNAM-IIMAS. Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Thesis title: Information extraction tools for GATE architecture. Advisor: Sofía Galicia-Haro. Mexico City.
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2005 - B.S. Mathematics (minor in Computer Science). UGTO-CIMAT. Mathematics Department - University of Guanajuato, Thesis title: Part-of-speech tagger for Natural Language Processing. Advisor: Alexander Gelbukh. Guanajuato City