Mr. Math
Aleksandra Labuda was born in Poland, in Gdansk, a city with over 1,000 years of history. From an early age, she was fascinated by mathematics and learning about its secrets. When she was in middle school, she started tutoring younger kids and has been doing it to this day. She is excited to share her love of math with our amazing students.
Cole Comfort first joined the Mr. Math program in 2018 as a TA, and it was the students that inspired Cole’s deep love for the program. Since then he earned a BA in Elementary Education along with an endorsement in Middle Grade Mathematics and has “graduated” from Mr. Math TA to Teacher, excited to see what the future has in store for him.
Galina Kofman thinks it’s ok to change one’s mind when it comes to who you want to be. She studied to be a mechanical engineer but fell in love with programming. She had a lot of fun building early Internet. One day Galina realized that solving math problems and being with kid is what she really wanted to do.
Peter Sompolski, “Mr. Solve-It”, had the pleasure of working with Arkady Maydanchik in the early years of development of the Adventures with Mr. Math. Peter was excited to join the program in 2021, having retired after an outstanding career as a math teacher for gifted students. He encourages his students to give it their all, ask questions, and learn by making mistakes.
Tasha Christensen started tutoring math when she was in high school, realizing at that point that she has a knack for making connections and explaining difficult concepts. Tasha was one of the few teachers in Illinois with the Gifted Educator endorsement and enthusiastically joined the Mr. Math program in 2021.