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.

Maya Diakoff

Co-Owner & Managing Director

With Mathnasium since 2014; before starting with Mathnasium, Maya taught high school for 10 years. 

School Attended: Occidental College & UCLA

Degree: MS in Chemistry

Hobbies and Interests: Astronomy, knitting, roller skating

What I love about Mathnasium: I love helping kids acquire the tools they need in order to become advanced math students.

Abigail

Assistant Director

School Attending: USC

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Hobbies and Interests: Traveling, music, photography, badminton

What I love about Mathnasium: Something I love about Mathnasium is how I have the ability to help a student out to become better at math, whether it's a more efficient way or being able to explain why they got a certain answer.

Marc

Assistant Director

Schools Attended: USC & CSULB

Degree: BA in Political Science & Applied Mathematics

Hobbies and Interests: Photography, hiking, watching films

What I love about Mathnasium: I love that Mathnasium has created an environment where students can build a new positive experience with Math. This environment allows students to share and test their ideas about solving math problems, which raises their confidence.

Kenny

Lead Instructor

School Attended: Eagle Rock High School

Hobbies and Interests: Music, reading, video games

What I love about Mathnasium: I love being able to help kids learn new ways to approach math topics and understand math. I love seeing kids gain confidence in their ability to do math and become eager to learn more.

Lyrika

Lead Instructor

School Attended: California State University of Sacramento

Degree: Bachelor's in Mathematics with Teaching Emphasis

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, Singing, Music, Video Games, Cooking

What I love about Mathnasium: I love that we get to focus on finding ways to help students not only catch up and understand math, but get ahead as well to benefit themselves in their future.

Djuna

Instructor

School Attending: Occidental College

Major: Cellular and Molecular Biology

Hobbies and Interests: running, reading, and spiders

What I love about Mathnasium: Mathnasium make math fun to learn - which also makes it fun to teach! It is so much easier to learn math when you don't hate it and everyone here is dedicated to teaching students to love math. I love the supportive energy of the instructors and the students that makes Mathnasium an amazing community!

Jamie

Instructor

School Attending: Glendale Community College

Major: Computer Science

Hobbies and Interests: Dancing and crocheting

What I love about Mathnasium: I can help kids use an efficient way to solve problems, to make doing math problems easy and fun!

Ethan

Instructor

School Attending: Occidental College

Major: Economics

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, videogames, fashion

What I love about Mathnasium: I love the ways we build math literacy, and I love the connections and getting to know the kids.

Sarita

Instructor

School Attended: Hampshire College (Amherst, MA) - graduated 2019

Major: Film & Physics

Hobbies and Interests: Martial arts (aikido & iaido), biking, reading, writing, music (piano & cello), animation, showing people pictures of my cats

What I love about Mathnasium: I love having the opportunity to help kids who are struggling with math figure out strategies to help them improve. Tutoring at Mathnasium has also taught me new and exciting ways to approach math problems and think mathematically, and it has truly opened up the beautiful world of mathematics for me.

Kristin

Instructor

School Attending: Pasadena City College

Major: Computer Engineering

Hobbies and Interests: Video games and doing my own nails

What I love about Mathnasium: I love that Mathnasium builds an environment to help kids become more confident and skilled in math.

Davit

Instructor

School Attending: Glendale Community College

Major: Electrical Engineering

Hobbies & Interests: Chess, Math

What I love about Mathnasium: I love working with fun and enthusiastic kids and seeing the joy on their faces when they start to truly understand math.

Tomas

Instructor

School Attending: Pasadena City College

Major: Economics

Hobbies & Interests: Working out, visiting parks, buying clothes.

What I love about Mathnasium: Talking to the students and making sessions fun and enjoyable.

Andrew

Instructor

School Attending: Undecided

Major: Undecided

Hobbies & Interests: Streaming, Japanese language & culture, calisthenics, bouldering, instructing

What I love about Mathnasium: It gives students a chance to excel and improve at something they may have thought they'd never be good at. I actually wish I had come to Mathnasium when I was younger, too!

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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