Problem Solving & Contest Training
for MathOlympiads, MathCounts, International math contests, AMC, SAT
Our Teachers
The majority of our teachers come to us from engineering background where they were trained to apply mathematics in applications.
Most of them were former mathletes who participated in math contests in middle school or high school and they are characterized as having high degree of logical thinking mind.
All of our teachers have at least a college if not a master or Phd degree in the area of science or math.
Many have considerable experience in teaching problem solving and competition math.
Every teacher was trained with our teaching method and are monitored in delivering the curriculum.
One common feature all of our teachers share is their passion in teaching, the fulfillment in seeing the joy in students' face when solution was discovered for difficult problems.
Teaching Method
The classes at MathEdge are interactive and dynamic. Problem solving strategies are introduced, fun learning is emphasized, and challenges for the students are presented. In problem solving, there is no definitive method to reaching an answer. Each student tends to have his or her own approach to a problem because of a unique academic background or perspective. However, certain approaches are more efficient in reaching an answer as a result of better problem-solving skills.
When a complicated problem is presented, students are taught to dissect or reinterpret it for easier analysis. No matter how complex the problem appears, they are trained to learn how to understand it, whether by asking questions or looking for information; thus, they learn to tackle difficult problems without quitting.
Students learn best by working through problems, articulating their thought processes, and thereby learning and discovering better reasoning skills. In this way, they learn knowledge that stays with them for a lifetime.
Credential
Ewa Garg: The head coach for the USA team competing in the 2005 Primary Math World Contest. The head coach for Redwood MS MathCounts team (placed 2nd in the 2005 California State Competition). Started and taught most of the Redwood & Argonaut math programs, i.e. MathCounts, AMC8/10/12 (American Mathematics Competition), Harker Math invitational, and MathOlympiads (MOEMS) for 4 years. Redwood did extremely well. Besides placing in the top 3 in MathCounts Chapter and State competitions, Redwood had 20% of participants qualified for AIME (American Invitational Mathematics Examination) and one (being in Junior High School) even qualified for USAMO(through AMC10/12, the high school level math competition), awarded the most number of trophies of any participating school in 2004 Harker Math Invitational, and was top 10% in both Div E and Div M MathOlympiads for many years. Most creditably, a former Redwood MathCounts student won GOLD in the 2004 International Mathematical Olympiad in Athens.
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