At AoPS, we believe students learn best through challenging problems that develop problem-solving and critical reasoning skills via productive struggle and creative thinking. Our goal is to help students build a deep conceptual understanding of mathematics by exploring why it works.

As a math curriculum intern at our San Diego headquarters, you’ll collaborate with and be mentored by experienced mathematicians and educators. You will help create engaging content for motivated middle and high school students. This is a great opportunity for recent graduates or those about to graduate as this role could convert to a full time, permanent position. 

Past math curriculum intern projects include:

• Designing in-person activities for AoPS Academy classes
• Creating digital interactive activities for online classes
• Developing lessons for online self-paced courses
• Curating and writing competition problems for USAMTS, AoPS Online’s Practice AMCs, and AoPS Academy’s Problem Solvers Contest

The Math Curriculum Intern will:

• Develops new educational materials with input from more senior team members. 
• Incorporates feedback from team members and other stakeholders into their materials. 
• Makes content corrections to existing materials based on student and teacher feedback.
• Builds their understanding of and experience with the students within their target audience as well as the people who will deliver their content. This may include grading, assisting, teaching, or team-teaching courses, if relevant. 
• Completes other tasks and responsibilities, as assigned.

The ideal candidate has:

• Experience teaching or tutoring mathematics preferred, ideally including experience with K-12 students
• Strong mathematics content knowledge
• Strong writing skills, with the ability to translate complex mathematics concepts into clear, engaging, and understandable content
• Strong creativity, with the ability to develop original problems and puzzles
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Readily seeks out and learns from feedback
• Passion for education

Why Join AoPS:

This is a hybrid full-time position based at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. The full salary range for this position is $30/hour. Here are some things you can look forward to:

• 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 and flexible scheduling
• Future Planning: 401K with company match
• 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 country’s 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.