Our Team at Mathnasium of Severna Park

Elaina Brooks

Elaina attends Anne Arundel Community College part-time and plans to transfer to a 4 year university to study Applied Math! Elaina’s favorite number is 3 because it is prime and because her favorite shape is a triangle! Outside of work, Elaina enjoys art! 

Rachel Grapes

Rachel is currently attending University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she is studying Mathematics! Rachel’s favorite number is 17 because it was her jersey number when she played soccer and it “just makes sense”. She also loves the Fibonacci Sequence also known as the Golden Spiral that follows a logarithmic pattern and is evident everywhere in nature such as in flowers, pinecones, hurricanes, as well as galaxies!

Sabrina Richter

Sabrina’s favorite number is 13 because it is prime and she thinks “5, 8 and 13 is just a really good fact family”. Sabrina loves writing and has published a book! Sabrina is very involved in theater; she works on set construction and sound engineering! 

Nora Devine

Nora’s favorite number is 4! It’s the only number that has the same number of letters as its value, four-leaf clovers are good luck, it’s a perfect square (and squares have 4 sides), and there are 4 basic operations! Also, Nora knows over 50 digits of pi! 

Susan Hogan

Susan earned a Bachelor's Degree in Education from the University of Maryland, followed by a Masters Degree from Loyola College! She was a classroom teacher for 31 years and including the Gifted and Talented program for 13 years! Susan enjoys gardening, hiking, and spending time with her family! Her favorite number is 8 because it is her birth month and, when turned sideways, represents the infinity symbol!

Ryan Pohland

Ryan graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Physics! He plans to go back to school to get his Master’s Degree in Education which he wants to use to teach high school. Ryan enjoys rock climbing and he is really good at juggling! Ryan’s favorite number is 24 because it has so many factors, he loves the game, and it was his jersey number! 

Anastasia Quinn

Anastasia is currently attending Stevens Institute of Technology! She plays the electric guitar and her favorite number is 4 because it’s a perfect square, it’s a commonly used number, and it was her jersey number when she used to play soccer!

Caitlin Tweed

Caitlin is attending the University of Utah as a biology major with a neurobiology emphasis and a psychology minor. Her favorite number is 17! She says it's got a good vibe and feels very sunny to her! It's a prime number and when squared it's 289, which is almost a prime number as its only factors are 1, 17, and itself, making 17 feel very unique. When you're feeling 17, you're also a dancing queen!

Mahee Rathod

Mahee is currently pursuing an Applied Math degree at University of Edinburgh! She loves to travel, and her favorite number is tau (2 pi which is roughly equal to 6.28) because it is far less known than pi but has identical uses!

Michaela Dennis

Michaela attends UCLA where she is pursuing B.S. for Environmental Science major with a concentration in Systems and Society and minor in Statistics and Data Science. Her favorite color is green and her favorite number is 23 because she was born on the 23rd! Michaela has been instructing online for a year!

Emily Sutton

Emily attends Dartmouth College where she hopes to major in Biomedical Engineering and minor in Mathematics! Emily is a dancer, her favorite styles are ballet and tap! Emily’s favorite number is 10 because it is the base of our number system and on the periodic table it corresponds to neon, her favorite element!

Danial Ludwig

Danial graduated from University of Maryland, College Park, with degrees in Physics and Mathematics. Danial's favorite number is 7 – he chose it in kindergarten and never changed it! In his free time, Danial likes to longboard and play chess!