At AoPS, the business problem is to develop innovative and engaging mathematical learning opportunities for motivated K-12 students by expanding the Beast Academy math curriculum and creating courses, lessons, activities, games, and puzzles for delivery in AoPS Academy learning centers and online schools.
Requirements
- Strong mathematical foundations
- Enjoy solving puzzles
- Know a few creative ways to compute 1+3+5+7+...+199
- Elementary or middle school math contest experience (strongly preferred)
- Ability to design cognitively demanding math tasks
- Ability to write and design for teachers, designing curricular materials that will empower them to provide engaging and rigorous classroom experience
Responsibilities
- Expanding our Beast Academy math curriculum for elementary school students to provide a full-classroom experience to be delivered in schools across the country.
- Creating courses, lessons, activities, games, and puzzles for delivery in our twelve in-person AoPS Academy learning centers across the US.
- Helping advance the state of the art in online course delivery by designing courses and delivery tools in our AoPS Online School or our AoPS Academy Virtual Campus.
- Creating courses, lessons, activities, games, and puzzles for delivery in our in-person AoPS Academy learning centers across the US.
- Developing or refining specialty courses for very advanced math students in a range of grade-levels.
Other
- Passion for math through teaching or doing mathematics
- Strong intuition and conviction about how to inspire and train the great problem-solvers of the next generation
- Ability to work and collaborate with an organization filled with builders and life-long learners
- Bachelor's degree (not explicitly mentioned but implied)
- Background check required
