Matthew Benet ’16 believes that most processes in the world could be made more efficient by utilizing math concepts. So many students are turned off by math due to one bad class or teacher and believe that they are bad at math, he said, when really, it’s likely because it wasn’t explained to them in a way that clicked.
Now a math teaching assistant working at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth summer program, that’s just what Benet is trying to do; make math click for exceptional junior high and high school students. Rather than work as a data analyst on Wall Street, Benet is using his love and aptitude for math to help inspire young minds and decide if he’d like to focus on teaching math at the college level.
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