The Team and the Philosophy

Dr. Wang and his team have always believed that to cultivate a generation to love math, it takes the entire community’s effort.  He is fortunate to have highly reputable people, who share the same vision, joining him to make a world class faculty team. To see the list of faculty members, please click here. With extensive real world experiences in both academic and industrial sectors, from the leaders and faculty team, the staff at Math Zoom Academy is aware of the skill sets to make successful leaders. We also know the most effective ways to engage young people and develop these skills. By adopting personal experiences and research results, we help our students maximize their strengths and shine in their strongest areas. At the same time, students will learn to identify and realistically recognize their weaknesses and successfully grow stronger in their weak areas, so they have the potential to stand out on their college applications and become successful professionals in any career endeavor.

The Chronicle

2011:

Initiatives and Events:

• Launch of 4 levels of online group lessons
• Launch of new Parent Portal
• Launch of new Facebook group

Results:

• Two time Math Zoom Camp alumni Sarah Herrmann brings home the bronze medal for the US Team from the China Girls Math Olympiad (CGMO)

• MathCounts 2011 National Competition was held from May 6 to 8 in Washington DC. Math Zoom students Alex Hong, and Celine Liang, along with two other teammates Andrew He and Sean Shi, won the national team championship for California Team. Scott Wu (Louisiana) won the Individual Championship by winning Countdown round. Math Zoom participants Shyam Narayanan (Kansas) won the individual written round. Another Math Zoom participant Yang Liu (Missouri) won the Master Round.

• 31 USA(J)MO Qualifiers:
  • Fengyu Ke
  • Seung Jo Yoo
  • Marco Gentili
  • Thomas Swayze
  • Cynthia Day
  • Kevin Yin
  • Kevin Marume
  • Shyam Narayanan
  • JinSeong Kim
  • Jong Wook Kim
  • Brendan Fletcher
  • David Lucia
  • Adisa Kruayatidee
  • Alexander Clifton
  • Matthew Rauen
  • Young Hoon Kang
  • Christian Liu
  • Vinson Luo
  • Jeffrey Qiao
  • Richard Cho
  • Sarah Herrmann
  • Calvin Huang
  • Michael Zhao
  • Tony Zhang
  • Alex Pei
  • Alexander Hong
  • Michael Kural
  • Justin Luo
  • Hannah Field
  • Patrick Pan
  • Bovey Rao

• 2011 ARML National Top 20 Winners:
  • Shyam Narayanan (2nd)
  • Jong Wook Kim (11th)

• 100+ AIME Qualifiers

• 10 AMC 8 State Winners with Perfect Scorers:
  • Michael Lu
  • Alap Sahoo
  • Tony Zhang
  • Alexander Hong
  • Michael Kural
  • Patrick Hompe
  • Hannah Field
  • Nicholas Rauen
  • Bovey Rao
  • Sam Tan

• Active Math Zoom participant, Alexander Hong, wins the Grand Prize at the Bay Area Math Olympiad.

Summer Residential Camps: Two camps were run this year, the East Coast camp at Rutgers University and the West Coast camp at Cal Poly Pomona. Dr. Art Benjamin kicked off the Opening Ceremony of camp with his famous math-magic show, in addition to the participation of notable faculty and speakers who ran classes and gave seminars to our campers.

2010:

Initiatives and Events:

• Launched the Teacher’s Institute.
• Organized and led 4 US Teams with 27 students to an international math championship in China.
• Hosted the ARML Western Site contest in Las Vegas.

Results:

• Kevin Yin – one of the top 10 winners at the National Who Wants to Be a Mathematician.
• Kevin Yin – attended the MOSP.
• Tristan Carmean – attended the White House Science Fair and was honored by President Obama.
• Alex Hong – Gold Medalist in international math championship in China.
• Zack Li – Gold Medalist in international math championship in China.
• Cynthia Day: Silver Medalist in China Girl’s Math Olympiad.
• Adisa Kruayatidee – Bronze Medalist in China Girl’s Math Olympiad.
• Patrick Pan, Texas state MathCounts champion, won the Championship of the State of Texas and attended MathCounts National.
• Jimmy Park, 2nd place winner of the Washington D. C. state MathCounts contest and attended MathCounts National.
• Michael Kurel, Connecticut MathCounts Champion and attended MathCounts National.
• Eli Shayer, winner of Alaska state MathCounts and attended MathCounts National.
• 18 USAMO Qualifiers:
  • Seung Jo Yoo
  • Leon Yao
  • Calvin Huang
  • Paolo Gentili
  • Rebecca Tang
  • Cynthia Day
  • Roger Sheu
  • Kevin Yin
  • Tony Jin
  • Ji Hoon Kang
  • Thomas Swayze
  • Jong Wook Kim
  • Adisa Kruayatidee
  • Alexander Clifton
  • Matthew Rauen
  • Sean Jaw
  • Simon Wu
  • Luda Zhao
• 30+ AIME Qualifiers.

Summer Residential Camps: Two camps were run at Harvey Mudd College and UNCC. At his home campus, Dr. Art Benjamin once again gave his magical presentation at the Opening Ceremony.

2009: Math Zoom Summer Residential Camp was held at Cal Poly Pomona. Dr. Art Benjamin gave his magical presentation at the Opening Ceremony. The participants included future stars Sarah Hermman, Rebeccan Tang,  Kevin Yin, Henry Wang, Matthew Rauen, Zach Holmes, Leon Yao, and all other outstanding students. Jong Wook Kim, a private student of Dr. Wang was accepted and started at Phillip Andover Academy. The SCMO attracted 30 high schools to participate. The final contest was held in Sage Hill High School on December 6.

2008: Math Zoom Summer Residential Camp was held at UCLA. The tradition of the team contest at the closing ceremony began that summer. This would soon become the outline format for the Southern California Math Olympiad (SCMO). This tradition of running the high energy team contest continued at the following year’s summer camps. The participants included future stars Cynthia Day, Adisa Kruayatidee, Sarah Hermman, Alexander Clifton, Thomas Swayze, Stephen Yoo, Tony Jin, Kevin Yin, David Ke, Henry Wang, Leon Yao, Patrick Pan, Soumya Basu, Brendan Fletcher, and all other outstanding students. The SCMO attracted about 20 high schools to participate. The final contest was held in Cal State Fullerton on December 5. Math Zoom also hosted the regional Who Wants to Be a Mathematician on the same day.

2007: Math Zoom Summer Residential Camp was first held at the University of California in San Diego in 2007.  The camp was taught by Dr. Kevin Wang, Dr. Harold Reiter, Dr. Zuming Feng and Andy Niedermaier. Richard Rusczyk, from Art of Problem Solving, gave a lecture on the mathematical applications in finance. Among the participants, there were Stephen Yoo again, who qualified USAMO for several consecutive years. Tony Jin, Kevin Yin, David Ke, Hao Sun, Marco Gentili, Paolo Gentili all had outstanding performances in the major math contests. In Fall 2007, the Math Zoom Year Round program was offered in Irvine, Acadia and Walnut.

2006: Math Zoom Academy began with the 2006/2007 Winter Camp during the school district’s winter break.  Dr. Kevin Wang, joined by his college friend Dr. Zuming Feng, taught that first session. The camp was held at a learning center in Cerritos, California, owned by the Princeton Review. The owner of the Princeton Review, Paul Kanarek, was so impressed by this new program that he contacted Ms. Ren becoming a strong supporter in starting the year-round programs in Irvine, Arcadia and Walnut. Among the participants, there were Stephen Yoo, who was a 6th grader, enjoyed the program so much and continued to get private coaching by Dr. Wang for several years. He qualified USAMO when he was a 7th grader, became one of very few (about 10) USAMO qualifiers at that young age.  Adisa Kruayatidee qualifed USAMO at 8th grade, and was recruited to Phillip Exeter Academy. Hao Sun and Alexander also qualified USAMO later on. Eventually they went on to Cal Tech and Duke University.