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Nhon Ma is the co-founder of numerade.com

• Mom was an educator in South Vietnam, Chinese immigrants who then moved to LA.
• Grew up in LAUSD system.
• Better Chance program in middle school. Placed me in a top private school.
• Shaped my thinking around education.
• Ride bus to school in a completely different culture.
• Close educational opportunity gap
• Prices for tutoring for synchronous doesn’t drop.
• Largest STEM video library.
• Jethro’s YouTube channel from when he was an English teacher
• Mass adoption of synchronous learning through zoom.
• Participation rates are much lower.
• Office hours, daily creation, Students consume content at their own time.
• Anonymous q&a feature.
• Especially with STEM students, if there is a fall-off, it’s very hard to make up lost ground.
• Stitching together playlists of math and science for students.
• How to be a transformative leader? Always focus on the why!

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