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.

Jeff

Assistant Center Director

About me:  I came to work at Mathnasium because while serving as a 4th-grade math educator with Teach for America in Memphis, Tennessee, I rekindled a love for mathematics and came to understand the need for individualized mentorship and tutorship in mathematics.

Favorite number: 29. The aesthetic strikes me.

Favorite Math Joke:

Q: What do you call a group of friends who love math?

A: Algebros!

In 5 years, I will be... A published author.

I love Mathnasium because... It facilitates an environment where everyone is encouraged to be curious constantly! I always feel like I'm learning as much as the students are!

Fun fact: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is the Persian mathematician from whom we get the English term "algorithm" which is meant to resemble his last name; al-Khwarizmi.

My hobbies include: Reading and Dungeons & Dragons.

Favorite math topic: Variant base numerical systems like binary or the Babylonian sexigesimal system. Those crazy Babylonians.

Alex

Instructor

About me:  My name is Alex and I am currently a junior at East High School. Throughout my academic journey, I have always loved math. In elementary school I helped run the Math Olympiad team, In middle school I took advanced math classes and studied on the side, and in high school so far I've taken the hardest classes I can. Apart from loving math, I play Ultimate Frisbee, run Cross Country, and absolutely love to play music (mainly piano and saxophone, but I've been trying to learn the drums recently as well). In my free time I like  to spend quality time with friends and family.  

Why I love working at Mathnasium:  I like working at mathnasium because I love the feeling of helping someone understand a new concept or think about things in a different way. I love when I get to see that Aha moment that happens when a student finally understands something they've been struggling with. 

Favorite number: My favorite number is 104,729 because it is the 10,000th prime number, and I think it rolls off the tounge nicely.

Fun fact about myself:  A fun fact about me is that I can solve a Rubik's cube in about 30 seconds. 

In 5 years I'll be...   I will be a senior in College hopefully close to obtaining a degree that I'm excited about and ready to continue my life after college.  

Anna

Instructor

About me: Hi! I’m a student at South High School. Outside of teaching at Mathnasium I’m also a competitive dancer and I like the arts in general. I love spending time with my friends and family. In my free time I also love watching sports like F1 and Football, making jewelry, or going to concerts!  

Why I love working at Mathnasium: I enjoy working at mathnasium because it is very rewarding and fun to teach kids. I also love getting to meet people with many different interests and personalities.  

Favorite Number: My favorite number is 8 because my birthday is 6/18/08 so I was born on the 18th and my birth year is 2008.  

Fun fact about myself: I love fashion and I would like to learn how to make my own clothes.

In 5 years, I'll be... Hopefully I will be in my senior year of college! 

Ashton

Instructor

About me:  At the start of 2023, I had undergone some major life changes. I graduated high school and community college, as well as moved out of my old home. From my experiences in high school, I found fulfillment through leadership positions in after school activities such as TSA (Technology Student Association), Quiz Bowl / NAQT, and Drama club. Where I could work with my younger peers, finding mutual growth and learning from our time together. Eventually, I found Mathnasium. Here, I strive to continue these shared learning and teaching relationships with our students!

Favorite number: 1,024 is my favorite number! I find it difficult to choose only one number as a favorite, but 1,024 encompasses my favorite single-digit numbers, 0,1,2, and 4.

Favorite math joke: Of all the primes, 2 is the oddest!

Fun fact about me: A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time! While its had a few different definitions over the years, chemistry and physics often define it as the time it takes for light to travel a centimeter, or 3.336 x 10^-11 seconds.

My hobbies include: Spending time with my cats! They provide excellent company as I enjoy hobbies such as reading, journaling, solving puzzles, or watching movies.

Favorite math topic: Sequences. Describing the pattern, or “rule,” to find the next number in a sequence is a satisfying way to translate mathematical thinking into words for others to understand.

Charlie

Instructor

About me: I am a student at Dsst Montview high school. I love math, basketball, and playing video games. I love watching and playing basketball and I wish to get an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics. 

Why I love working at Mathnasium:  I like working at mathnasium because the people there helped me alot and I feel like it is my turn now. 

Favorite number:  7 because it was my first number in basketball and has just kinda stuck. 

Fun fact about myself:  I have a passion for basketball, which always surprises people. 

In 5 years I'll be...  Hopefully graduating college with a major in applied mathematics, either looking for a job or going back for my masters. 

Chloe

Instructor

About me:  Hello! I’m Chloe. I am a fan of all things math, and I love being able to help students develop a deeper understanding of math concepts. In my free time, I enjoy reading, drawing, skiing, playing ultimate frisbee, and spending time with my cats. I also aspire to have an almost-unsettling amount of geography knowledge.  

Why I love working at Mathnasium:  I find it very rewarding to see how mathematical concepts have so many practical applications and how different ways of thinking about math can connect. It is awesome to see students find those connections and grow their confidence in math. 

Favorite number:  I really like the number 29. I find it aesthetically pleasing for some reason. 

Fun fact about myself:   I have 5 cats: Jake, Butters, Tiger, Daisy, and Sandstorm. 

In 5 years I'll be... Hopefully pursuing a degree in a math related field.

Colin

Instructor

About me: My name is Colin! I studied mathematics at the University of Denver and graduated in 2018. My goal at Mathnasium is to help students see that math can be interesting and useful; its not just another boring subject in school.

Favorite number: π - I like pi!

In 5 years, I will be... Able to grow a moustache that doesn't gross out the students! (hopefully)

Fun fact about me: I am working on an app - Silicon Valley here I come!

Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, and lifting weights

Favorite math topic: Probability - I love knowing the chances of events. Just very cool to me that we can find that out.

My dreams: Realistic: Complete law school without my brain exploding.  Unrealistic: One time I had a dream that I was swimming in a pool filled with crème soda. I want to make that a reality.

Ellen

Instructor

About me:  Hi! - I’m Ellen. I’m a Connecticut transplant and am grateful to call Colorado home since 2012. Full time, I am a credentialed actuary working in health care pricing but enjoy the afternoons I’m able to get away to spend at Mathnasium. Having a solid math foundation opened new career opportunities for me and I hope to help all Mathnasium students build one, too.

I love working at Mathnasium because: Learning something new is hard whether it’s long division or studying for an actuarial exam. Getting to watch students master topics that were once challenging to them is a constant inspiration to me.

Favorite number: The Golden Ratio ~1.618 – it’s so cool how it is spread throughout nature, from seashells to hurricanes.

Favorite math joke: Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers? -She’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.

Hobbies: Paddleboarding, yoga and I’m finally giving in to peer pressure and learning how to ski


Grace

Instructor

About me: Hello there! I’m a math student at CU Denver. I’m super into fashion and playing dress up with my friends. I also absolutely love cooking, since there’s no better feeling than when the meal I made matches what I envisioned.  

Why I love working at Mathnasium:  I love the people I’m surrounded by in Mathnasium! I love the working environment because everyone cares about each other. I also love the students because of their positivity and dedication towards learning math. Going to work doesn’t feel like work!

Favorite number:   139. The 3 digits are in order from least to greatest. The number’s digits are 3^0 then 3^1 and 3^2. It’s also a prime number (and so is 3). I just really like 3’s, and this number feels like the embodiment of 3.  

Fun fact about myself:  I taught myself to play the ukulele, and I’ve written quite a few songs. 

In 5 years, I'll be...  Graduating with my Master of Science in Mathematics  

James

Instructor

About Me: I started working at Mathnasium because I wanted to get better at teaching math across as many grade levels as possible. As someone who had a somewhat adversarial relationship with mathematics before getting to college, it took me a long time to see how interesting and subtle a lot of the underlying logic behind even basic mathematical ideas can be. I thought that if I could figure out how to communicate that to even one or two students that were in a similar position as myself, that would be extremely rewarding.

Favorite Number: I love zero. It has properties that no other number has and makes functions behave in strange ways. On top of that, no matter at what level of math you are doing, everything is made so much easier when you can set something equal to zero.

Favorite Math Joke: What did zero say to eight? Nice belt.  

In 5 Years I Will Be... hopefully completing and successfully defending my Ph.D. dissertation. Either that or working in quantum information science outside of academia.

I Love Mathnasium Because... there is such a great community and comfortable atmosphere here. It is so rewarding to spend years working with students and see them progress through school and life, and get to see how they grow into strong and capable thinkers. And being able to contribute to that process in any way is extremely special. 

Fun Fact: When you get shocked because of static electricity, that's actually only possible because of quantum tunneling. The voltage that would need to build up on your hands for that to happen without quantum mechanics is effectively impossible for you to accumulate on your skin.

My Hobbies Include: I love to learn new things, so my favorite thing to do is to read. Other than that, I like camping, watching old movies, and cooking.

Favorite Math Topic: I'm a physicist, so I have to say differential equations. I am constantly finding myself in awe of how much we can know from some relatively basic mathematical principles, and how we can use those principles together with the different rates of change that appear in systems to describe things we may not ever be able to observe, even in principle. Also the idea that the best way to describe something is in terms of how it changes and fluctuates is one of the most philosophically interesting ideas in my opinion.

Josh

Instructor

About Me: Hi! I'm Josh! I'm a junior at the Colorado School of Mines double majoring in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (Statistics)! Outside of math, I'm a huge nerd! I love reading books and playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends! I love watching movies and tv shows too!

Why I Love Working At Mathnasium: I love working at Mathnasium because I love teaching! I believe that it's important to help others in any way that you can. Helping people makes me happy! As a former Mathnasium student myself, I really love the way the Mathnasium Method works for students!

Favorite Number: 1.618! It's Phi (The Golden Ratio)! It's a ratio between two numbers that's often described as "the perfect proportion"! The Golden Ratio is often observed in various fields, including art, architecture, and geometry. It also appears in the human body, influencing the proportions of the face, body, and limbs.

Fun Fact About Myself: I graduated high school two years early, so I'm a junior in college, but I'm still a teenager!

In 5 Years I'll Be... Getting my Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence!

Khang

Instructor

About me: Hello everyone! I'm Khang (pronounced "can") and I'm a proud gay Vietnamese-American studying Civil Engineering and Bioengineering. When I'm not drilling math into the kids heads, I like to play my ukulele, learn languages, and make music!  

Why I love working at Mathnasium: I like Mathnasium because we teach in a way actually makes sense. Besides that, we have amazing staff and even better students to boot! 

Favorite number: 0, it's ubiquitous, central, and it's where things starts to count. 

Fun fact about myself: I like five point stars and pentagons. 

In 5 years I'll be... I hope I end up fixing I-25 traffic and saving up to tour the world. 

Matt

Instructor

About me: Hi - I'm Matt. I've spent the last 3 years working in education as an instructor and mentor. I like watching sports, playing games, and making music! 

Why I love working at Mathnasium:  There is a brilliant and diverse set of kids that makes each day a little different.

Favorite number: 18 - it's my birthdate. 

Fun fact about myself: I can touch my nose w my tongue.

Michael

Instructor/Private Tutor

About me:  Hi - I'm Michael. I have been an instructor at Mathnasium of Cherry Creek since 2019. I graduated from the Unversity of Colorado, Denver Campus with a degree in Math and Economics, and am currently in graduate school with a goal of getting a masters degree in mathematics. I grew up in this neighborhood and came to work for Mathnasium because I think math is super interesting and very important. I want to help give kids the same level of understanding and fascination I have. The best advice I ever got was that at some point math becomes difficult for everyone. Maybe it's at multiplication, maybe it's in algebra or maybe it's differential equestions. What's important is not WHEN we reach this point but HOW we react when we do.

Favorite number: e~2.718. . . because it is a seemingly invented number yet is shows up so many areas of mathematics.

Fun fact: I started out as a music major before switching to economics and then adding in math.

In 5 years, I will be . . . ideally finished with graduate school and have a master's degree in math.

Hobbies: playing guitar and watching/playing sports.

Favorite Math Topic: My favorite math topic is game theory because it is such a fresh and interesting way of looking at problems.

Raquel

Instructor

About me: I'm originally from Peru but was practically raised in Connecticut. I'm currently a graduate student at CU Anschutz working towards my PhD in neuroscience. I really enjoy knitting, crocheting, and playing the Sims 4. My goal is to have all the packs/kits in the Sims so I can build really cute things in the game. 

Why I love working at Mathnasium: I really enjoy being able to teach other people and I find it really gratifying seeing students get better.

Favorite number: My favorite number is 2. I'm not really sure why it's my favorite but it just makes sense to me. Also, I like writing my two's fancy-like. 

Fun fact about myself: I own two snakes! 

In 5 years I'll be... Hopefully defending my thesis and getting my PhD. 

Rayl

Instructor

About me:  Hi, I'm Rayl! I'm a software engineer in the Aerospace industry. I work a lot with web development and database design. Outside of work, I like woodworking and playing my Switch. I also mentor a FIRST Robotics team, where we build 100 pound robots to play 3v3 games! I've worked with Mathnasium for around 6 years at various centers. 

Why I love working at Mathnasium:  Math is the foundation of everything I do, and because I had good math teachers, I learned to think in new ways, even about things that apparently have nothing to do with math. I hope I can provide that for others!

Favorite number:  My favorite number is 12. I believe it makes a nearly ideal base to count in, since it's about the same size as base 10, but with much easier divisibility rules and more divisors.  

Fun fact about myself:  I can juggle jester sticks, but I can't juggle balls.  

In 5 years I'll be...  Hopefully, I'll be making robots to automate dangerous jobs.  

Tilly

Instructor

About me: My name is Tilly, and I am currently a high school student interested in astronomy and physics. I enjoy stargazing on clear nights and have recently picked up astrophotography as well. When I'm not studying the cosmos, I like to paint, play piano, cook, and read. I also have four siblings and love spending time with my family! 

Why I love working at Mathnasium:  I felt immediately drawn to Mathnasium after hearing about the experiences of friends and family members. I admire how Mathnasium offers kids a unique, encouraging environment where they can simultaneously work through challenging material and have fun. Seeing each student's confidence in themselves and their abilities grow is my favorite aspect of being an instructor. 

 Favorite number:  My favorite number is 5.14 because the digits are my birthday (5/14), and it is also the incline of the lunar orbit to the ecliptic. I always thought that was pretty cool :)

 Favorite math joke:

Q: Why are obtuse angles always so depressed?

A: Because they're never right!

Fun fact about myself: I have two telescopes, including a traditional 6" Dobsonian and an 8" Celestron telescope. I love taking them out on clear nights to stargaze whenever possible! 

In 5 years I'll be....  Hopefully pursuing a graduate degree in astrophysics or astronomy. 

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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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