Meet the Team at Mathnasium of Abbotsford

Larry Martinek

Larry has spent his entire career finding a better way to teach math. From inner city to public schools, to acclaimed magnet schools, to leading private and parochial schools, Larry has served as both a classroom teacher and as an educational consultant. He has designed curriculum, teaching strategies, and teaching materials designed to help students and teachers learn math more effectively. He has trained teachers in the art and science of boosting student’s ability to “do” math, thereby increasing student’s math scores and feelings of self-worth. Larry is the developer of Mathnasium’s educational program – one of the most comprehensive and innovative curriculums ever produced for teaching math. While Larry is not an Instructor at our Center, He is a valuable asset we can call on to ask about specific students scenarios for guidance and advise. This has helped to make visits more productive and enjoyable for many of our students.

Kenzie

Kenzie is a recent graduate from the University of the Fraser Valley. She has been tutoring mathematics for almost 10 years. Kenzie enjoys helping all students understand difficult mathematical processes using the Mathnasium Method, as it breaks down the work into foundational steps. She is very passionate about teaching math and loves helping students conquer their mathematics fears and goals!

Shruti

Shruti is a third-year undergraduate student in Computer Information Systems at the University of the Fraser Valley. From being an average student to being a class topper in Math, Shruti's journey with it has been full of hard work. Knowing what it takes to excel in Math, Shruti's aim at Mathnasium is to help kids understand and eliminate their problems in the subject using Mathnasium method.

Hugo

Hugo is a Computer Science student at the University of the Fraser Valey. His mother is a professor and inspired Hugo to be part of the team of instructors at Mathnasium, and it has been incredible. The kids are amazing and their joy when they understand a challenging topic is my favorite part of the day. The Mathnasium way of teaching makes learning always fun!

Imrose

Imrose is now pursuing a bachelor's degree in business administration with a finance concentration. After initially having difficulty with math, she soon began to enjoy it after receiving the proper instruction and has steadily improved in math computations. Her main goal at Mathnasium is to completely eradicate children's math anxiety through the precise implementation of the Mathnasium Method. Her favourite aspect of being a teacher is seeing the progress that children make with each lesson. Her mother is a teacher, and she learns the virtues of kindness and patience from her. She eventually wants the students to improve every day.

Estelle

Estelle is a senior IB diploma student and plans on studying biochemistry in university. Having served as a long time volunteer in Homework Club, she has extensive leadership training and experience with teaching children of all ages. Estelle enjoys helping every child understand math by adapting her teaching style in ways that make sense to them. Watching students improve with each session is her favourite part of being an instructor. In her spare time she likes to crochet, play the saxophone and read mystery novels.

Jeremy

Jeremy is a second-year BSc student at UFV planning to pursue a bachelor of electrical engineering at UBC. Over the last few years, he has earned a Red-Seal certificate in the trades, and taught himself coding, guitar, and upper-level math. He loves to learn and inspire people, and he always looks forward to helping students develop their math and critical thinking skills at Mathnsasium.

Nolan

Nolan is an instructor at Mathnasium. His interests include sports, such as soccer, basketball, hockey, football and spending time with his friends, whether it be through physical interaction, or connecting online. Math has always been a subject of interest for him, and a subject that he does well in.

Philip

Phil is an Engineering student at UFV and loves helping out! Math can be difficult for many students, but know that with a little help anyone can find success, and he is happy to be a part of that process!

Priya

Priya completed her Masters in Physics (Honors) and currently doing a degree in education to make my teaching as better as I could. My parents are both teachers. My father is a Maths teacher who is very passionate about teaching it in a fun way. It is from him that i got interested in teaching Maths. I love teaching Maths and Physics.

Simran

Simranpreet is currently in the second year of his bachelor’s degree in Math. With over 2 years of tutoring experience, he has gradually excelled in the art of teaching Math. His prime aim at Mathnasium is to relinquish kids of their math problems with the perfect application of the Mathnasium Method. Simran is an aspiring math teacher, with a lot of math teaching experience, he has perfected high school Math and wants students at Mathnasium to get nothing but a straight A+.