Our Team at Mathnasium of Meridianville

Luke

A Huntsville native and veteran Mathnasium student, Luke’s favorite part of instructing is the chance to impact his students’ lives. He is a graduate of Huntsville High and, having found he has a knack for computers, is now a student of cyber security at UAH.

Favorite Math Topic: Calculus, because it integrates math into real-world situations.

Fun Fact: Luke has graduated top of his class every year in high school!

Hobbies: Spending time with friends and family, basketball, cyber, storm-chasing.

Favorite Math Joke: What’s a cow’s favorite math? Cow-culus!! (Seriously Luke?)

Chris Hardy

Raised in Grant, Alabama, Chris is a local and Veteran of the United States Army. He is the father of 3 beautiful children, a 2nd degree black belt in the art of Tang Soo Do, the Garden State Grand Champion of 2022, and a volunteer part time Competition sparring team instructor. He spends most of his time fully involved as a father and husband while enjoying the "Jeep Life" as a proud member of the local Jeep club, Rocket City Wranglers. 

Hobbies: Swimming, running, kayaking, hiking, cooking.

Fun Fact: He and his wife have a son enrolled in Mathnasium, which is what led them to become the owners of Mathnasium of Huntsville! They are true believers in the Mathnasium Method and the impact it has on a child's confidence and understanding in math.

Kate

After working as an Instructor for 4 years and graduating from UAH with a degree in Communication, Kate pivoted from plans for leaving Huntsville and making movies, to plans for staying put and keeping on changing young lives at Mathnasium! Kate most enjoys doing logic puzzles and mental math with students, as well as training and building up the team of instructors.

Favorite Math Topic: Fractions. 

Hobbies: Origami, filmmaking, reading. 

Fun Fact: Kate has directed two and half short films! 

Favorite Math Joke: What do Walmart and Algebra have in common? Distributive property.

Ryan

Ryan hails from Georgia and loves using his math skills for driving race cars when he isn't instructing or studying Aerospace Engineering. He has been at Mathnasium 3+ years.

Favorite Math Topic: Algebra. 

Hobbies: Driving race cars, fixing race cars, watching race car races, talking about race cars. Rock climbing. 

Fun Fact: Big Braves fan and racing fan, all thing space. 

Favorite Math Joke: Parallel lines have so much in common... it's a shame they'll never meet!

Gigi

Gigi used to hate math and even had to teach it to herself in high school! But in a strange twist of fate, her determination to become a tech engineer led her to enjoy math. Gigi has taught robotics, math, and physics at Drake State Community and Tech College. 

Favorite Math Topic: Unit Circles. 

Fun Fact: Gigi is a cartoon fanatic. 

Hobbies: Gaming, robots, 3D printing. 

Favorite Math Joke: Why did the angle win every argument? He was a right angle.

Rebekah

Rebekah used to be a student at Mathnasium for 2 years before she became an instructor. In her free time, she mentors children in Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) and she loves to read! Her best quality as an instructor is helping students realize that they know more than they think and help build confidence in math and in life!