Math Curriculum Developer

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Art of Problem Solving is hiring a Math Curriculum Developer. This role involves expanding the Beast Academy math curriculum for elementary school students, creating engaging courses and activities for in-person and online learning centers, and developing specialty courses for advanced math students. The developer will design materials that inspire motivated K-12 students and empower teachers to deliver rigorous mathematics education.

Highlights

Expand Beast Academy curriculum to provide a full classroom experience for elementary schools.
Create courses, lessons, activities, games, and puzzles for AoPS Academy learning centers and online platforms.
Develop specialty courses for advanced math students across various grade levels.
Design curricular materials aimed at helping teachers deliver engaging and rigorous math instruction.
Strong foundation in mathematics and passion for problem-solving required.
Preference for candidates with elementary or middle school math contest experience.
Full-time hybrid position based in San Diego headquarters.
Salary ranges: L1: $62.5K-$75K, L2: $75K-$92.5K, Senior: $92.5K-$120K with a 4-6% bonus.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision plans, 401K with company match, PTO, relocation bonus, and flexible scheduling.
Employment contingent on successful background check.

Math Curriculum Developer Full Description

At AoPS, we believe that students learn best by working through challenging problems that present opportunities to develop problem-solving and critical reasoning skills through productive struggle and creative thinking. Our goal is for students to build a deep conceptual understanding of mathematics by grappling with why mathematics works.

We seek math curriculum developers to shape innovative and engaging mathematical learning opportunities for motivated K-12 students.

The Math Curriculum Developer will be:

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.

You might be a good fit for this position if...

Youâve built a passion for math through teaching or doing mathematics, and are eager to guide motivated students on mathematical explorations.
You have strong mathematical foundations and enjoy solving puzzles like this. You know a few creative ways to compute 1+3+5+7+...+199.
Youâre excited about helping students grapple with and enrich their understanding of mathematical ideas through creating cognitively demanding math tasks.
Your classroom experience as a teacher or student has given you strong intuition and conviction about how we might best inspire and train the great problem-solvers of the next generation.
You look forward to the challenge of writing and designing for teachers, designing curricular materials that will empower them to provide engaging and rigorous classroom experience.
In addition to being a math geek, youâre a bit of a word geek, reading voraciously and fussing over your own writing.
You have elementary or middle school math contest experience, as it is strongly preferred

Perks and Benefits:

This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The full salary range for this role as an L1: 62.5K-75K, L2: 75K-92.5K, Senior: 92.5k-120k with a 4-6% bonus depending on experience and level you are hired.

Some benefits of the position include:

Impact: The opportunity to have a wide range of avenues to share their love and understanding of mathematics with eager learners.
Culture: Work and collaborate with an organization filled with builders and life-long learners who strive to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation
Flexibility: Casual work environment with a hybrid work week (3 days a week in office) and flexible scheduling
Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
Future Planning: 401K with company match
Quality of Life: PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)

Background Check:

Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

About AoPS:

Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is on a mission to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. Since 2003, we have trained hundreds of thousands of the countryâs top students, including nearly all the members of the US International Math Olympiad team, through our online school, in-person academies, textbooks, and online learning systems. While our primary focus has been math for most of our history, through the years we have expanded our unique problem solving curriculum into more subjects, such as language arts, science, and computer science.

Original Job Description

We seek math curriculum developers to shape innovative and engaging mathematical learning opportunities for motivated K-12 students.

The Math Curriculum Developer will be:

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.

You might be a good fit for this position if...

Youâve built a passion for math through teaching or doing mathematics, and are eager to guide motivated students on mathematical explorations.
You have strong mathematical foundations and enjoy solving puzzles like this. You know a few creative ways to compute 1+3+5+7+...+199.
Youâre excited about helping students grapple with and enrich their understanding of mathematical ideas through creating cognitively demanding math tasks.
Your classroom experience as a teacher or student has given you strong intuition and conviction about how we might best inspire and train the great problem-solvers of the next generation.
You look forward to the challenge of writing and designing for teachers, designing curricular materials that will empower them to provide engaging and rigorous classroom experience.
In addition to being a math geek, youâre a bit of a word geek, reading voraciously and fussing over your own writing.
You have elementary or middle school math contest experience, as it is strongly preferred

Perks and Benefits:

Some benefits of the position include:

Impact: The opportunity to have a wide range of avenues to share their love and understanding of mathematics with eager learners.
Culture: Work and collaborate with an organization filled with builders and life-long learners who strive to discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation
Flexibility: Casual work environment with a hybrid work week (3 days a week in office) and flexible scheduling
Benefits: Multiple options for Medical, Dental and Vision plans
Future Planning: 401K with company match
Quality of Life: PTO Plan and supportive leadership that gives you the work-life balance you deserve
Ease of Transition: Relocation bonus (if currently located outside of San Diego)

Background Check:

Please note that employment is contingent on the successful completion of a background check.

About AoPS:

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