Our Laurel Team

Our staff is built to teach each student individually, to develop the skills they need to thrive in mathematics, and to foster a love of learning.

Laurel / Our Team

Barry & Kathryn Fausnaugh

Owners & Center Directors

Barry and Kathryn Fausnaugh are experienced Mathnasium Center Owners and Directors, and dedicated to the success of the students at Mathnasium of Laurel! They have owned and operated successful Mathnasium Centers since 2012. Barry holds a B.S. degree from UMUC in information systems management, and Kathryn holds a B.S. degree from Virginia Tech in accounting and earned her CPA. Both Barry and Kathryn enjoyed distinguished careers in management and IT consulting, prior to transitioning to pursuing opportunities with Mathnasium. As dedicated parents, Barry and Kathryn know first-hand the struggles many children (and parents) face with math. Barry and Kathryn believe that mastering essential math skills is crucial to success in today's world and the earlier kids are able to do so, the better off they will be in the long run. Whether a child will be a doctor, teacher, engineer or construction worker, he or she needs a minimum level of math skills. It is possible for kids to learn not only to not hate math, but to love, appreciate, and use it effectively as a tool throughout their entire lives.

Naji Rodes

Assistant Center Director

If you stop by the Center, you’ll have the opportunity to meet and talk with Naji, our Assistant Center Director. Naji started his career as a tutor in 2016, providing academic support to college students in a variety of calculus-based physics courses. When he came to Mathnasium in 2021, he delved deeply into the theory of math education at a primary school level. He is now equally at home teaching addition to a second grader as teaching trigonometry to a high schooler. Naji received his Bachelor’s degree from Haverford College in philosophy, carrying out extensive academic research in the philosophy of math and the philosophy of physics during his time there. Naji mentors students in creating their own representation of the intellectual structure of the topic under consideration, which allows them to answer not only the question in front of them, but many different questions on the same topic.

James Sullivan

Assistant Center Director - @Home

If your student has an opportunity to work in our @Home environment, they will be lucky enough to meet James! James is one of our most experienced Mathnasium instructors, and leads all instructional staff in the @Home platform. James' educational background includes an undergraduate focus on pre-med, with some engineering courses mixed in. His attraction to math began at an early age, but has only grown as he's learned more about what has been accomplished with math. James believes that math can be appreciated through something as basic as realizing that smartphones wouldn't exist without it, to something as complex as the fascinating explanation of the physical world and it's natural forces. We are thrilled that James feels that working at Mathnasium has been one of the most rewarding jobs he's had! Getting to witness kids learn to develop an appreciation for math as their skills and confidence grow gives James hope for the future - as he truly feels that math has the potential to help solve many future world problems through its application in technology and medicine.

Our Mathnasium Mission

Teach children math so they understand it, master it, and love it. Math can change their lives, and they can change the world.

What I love about Mathnasium is the ability to teach problem-solving skills and make math make sense, while also making a student smile.

Amber W., Mathnasium Instructor

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Meet the Team at Mathnasium of Laurel

Barry & Kathryn Fausnaugh

Naji Rodes

James Sullivan

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