Our History
We started an after-school math tutoring program in Jan 2016 in Arizona. In three years, we became one of the best math tutoring programs in Arizona, and student enrollment has increased over 300% due to the outstanding performance of our students in MATHLEAGUE, MATHCOUNTS, and AMC8 contests. Since 2020, we have offered our classes to out-of-state students ever since we moved the classes from onsite to online due to COVID-19. As of today, we have students from over 30 states.
Why Our Tutoring Program
The current U.S. mathematics curriculum at the elementary and middle school levels has several issues including but not limited to:
Current U.S. class material and textbooks often are either too confusing, or too simple, or combination of both. Current U.S. educational policy follows “No Child Left Behind” and “Every Student Succeeds”. With the focus on slow students, the standard has been lower. “One mile wide and one inch deep” is a good term to describe the situation in public school math classes.
Lack of qualified math teachers due to low pay and high turnover rate. A lot of math teachers are new to the field with no experience.
At the high school and college levels, math is much more challenging. Therefore, many students have a difficult time, necessitating spending long hours studying in order to maintain a decent GPA.
To fill this educational gap, we start from the elementary level to train students and build a solid foundation in mathematics. For talented students, we encourage them to participate in the most popular mathematics contests in the U.S., including MATHLEAGUE, AMC8, MATHCOUNTS and other local contests.
Most of our students start to enroll in our tutoring program from the 4th grade if they plan to participate in mathematics contests. For students just interested in building a solid foundation in mathematics, they can start later. We also accept students lower than the 4th grade if they have an especially strong interest in the program or a particular talent in math.
There are many tutoring programs in US now. We stand out with below features:
— Proven track record of our students’ success in both State and National level math contests
—Topic lectures to focus on one topic each lesson for student to master new concept and approaches thoroughly
— Focus on “think outside of the box” and problem-solving skills in addition to knowledge
— Our own class materials cover the most essential things students need to win
—Experienced and passionate instructors
—Individual consultation available with no cost
—Excellence in customer service
—Special classes (Number sense class, Logic training, etc.) not offered in most tutoring programs
Our Goals:
- To create an online program which can build strong foundations in mathematics for ALL elementary and middle school students
- To provide contest courses which aid talented students participating in elementary and middle school competitions to win awards up to the national level
- To boost students’ interest and confidence to solve challenging math problems
- To help students think outside the box and solve problems logically.
All students can improve if they learn with passionate and experienced teachers.
Everyone can be a winner if they try their best.
Learning can truly be fun. Work hard and work smart to be successful.
Teachers:
The culture and focus of our teachers are to guide students’ learning, help students find the beauty of math by working with them to discover the reason underneath formulas and theorems. Our teachers are passionate in teaching math and are happy to work with students to:
- Improve their knowledge and problem-solving skills
- Build a solid foundation for high school and contest math
- Inspire students to love math and to be more confident in solving challenging problems
- Solve challenging problems via creative ways
MS. Jennie Shen
Founder of LIF LLC, she passionately aims for her students to learn and to be successful wherever they go. She started her group lessons in Jan 2016 after her private students achieved the AMC8 perfect score, AMC8 Distinguished Honor Roll and MATHCOUNTS National Qualifier. In the last 9 years, she has taught over 1000 students at various levels. She offers AOPS Prealgebra, AMC8, MATHCOUNTS regular classes as well as short classes (number sense, logic fun classes, MOEMS) to help students being ready for various math contests. Over 80 students have won the AMC8 Distinguished Roll and AMC8 Honor Roll. 3 students won Mathleague National Champions.
MS. Tang
Ms. Tang hold a BS in Mechanical Engineering degree from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. in Science of Engineering of Materials from Arizona State University. She started her teaching career from 2011 when she taught math class in the local Chinese School. She is so passionate on teaching students that she started as a full-time teacher in one of the best public schools since 2021. She has passed the rigid training program by LIF to become instructor from 2021. She has been focused on AMC8 and MATHCOUNT class. She participated in math contest during her middle school and high school, which built a solid foundation for her to understand the challenging of math contests, her contest experience helps her to lead the students learning the complicated materials smoothly. Her students include MathLeague National Champion and MATHCOUNT National qualifiers.
MS. Julia Zhu
Ms. Zhu hold a BS in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She started her teaching career from 2010 when she taught computer system classes in Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. With very short time, she was awarded “Toronto Best Teacher Award Nominee and Runup’, demonstrating her superior teaching skills and her classes were extremely loved by her students. When she started to teach math to her daughter, she found her passion in teaching middle school students. She started teaching in LIF since 2020. She has been focusing on Algebra 1 class and logic fun class. Her class is fun and dynamic, well praised by many students. She pays attention to each student in and outside class time to make sure they all understand.
Mr. Lin
Mr. Lin holds a BS in Math Major from UT Austin. He started his math contest at 7th grade. After one year study, he got a perfect score at AMC test and qualified for MATHCOUNTS National contest. He also won Distinguished Honor Roll at AMC10 test and qualified for AIME 7 times. He started his LIF teaching career as TA for logic class during his high school and became an instructor to teach AOPS Counting & Probability, AOPS introduction to Geometry, AMC8 Test Pre class since 2023.
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