About Margin

Having just recently graduated from college, Margin has been both an academically strong student who completed a double major in mathematics and music at a prestigious liberal arts college (Haverford College), and also a neurodivergent student who has faced personal challenges in pursuing academic success.  They are thus a highly passionate and empathetic educator who is particularly interested in working with students who think and learn differently.  Their artistic creativity and wide range of interests help them to connect with students whose primary interest may not be mathematics (or who, like them, are passionate about maths and something else).  

Margin also has a variety of experiences in educational studies, having taken two courses in education while at Haverford (one in Math and Science Pedagogies specifically) and four online courses in Hungarian mathematical pedagogy through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics in summer 2021.  They worked as a mathematics course assistant in the Haverford mathematics department in the 2020-2021 academic year, and they served as a Teaching Fellow through Breakthrough Collaborative in summer 2022.  Even before college, Margin was passionate about education, serving as a High School Ambassador for the nonprofit Student Voice in the 2017-2018 school year and writing articles on educational issues (including a three-part series on mathematics education) for their school newspaper.  Their interest in mathematics education has deep roots, stemming from their deep admiration of their elementary school Math Enrichment teacher, who showed them that mathematics could be creative, collaborative, and curiously fun.  

As a high school student, Margin took AP Calculus BC in 10th grade, scored a 5 on the AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, and AP Computer Science A exams, and achieved 800 on the mathematics SAT (1590 overall) without enrolling in any test-prep course.  They participated in state-level MathCounts in middle school, winning third place in their county in 8th grade, and they attended the rigorous college-level mathematics summer intensive MathILy the summer before their 12th grade year.  Mathematics courses that they have taken in college include Algebra I & II, Analysis I & II, Complex Analysis, Combinatorics, Scientific Computing, and Differential Geometry.  

Margin has professional working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese (including reading), and they are also familiar with Spanish and German.