About the Authors
Allanna Chung, co-author of
Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Math for Kids, is an aspiring screenwriter with a deep passion for math. One of her favorite pastimes is showing just how fun and beautiful math can be to those who have learned to dislike it. She works as a teacher of STEM and as a personal tutor to help students learn math in ways that work for them.
Rebecca Rapoport is a co-author of
Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Math for Kids and
Math Games Lab for Kids.
Rapoport has also been writing
Your Daily Epsilon of Math, a math snack per day wall calendar for adults, for the past several years. Each month features a stunning math image and an intellectual challenge for every day of the month.
Rapoport holds degrees in mathematics from Harvard and Michigan State. From her first job out of college, as one of the pioneers of Harvard's Internet education offerings, she has been passionate about encouraging her love of math in others.
As an early contributor to both retail giant Amazon.com and Akamai Technologies, the No. 1 firm in cloud computing, Rapoport played a key role in several elements of the Internet revolution.
Rapoport returned to her first love, education, as an innovator of new methods to introduce children and adults to the critically important world of STEM as COO of an enrichment center dedicated to helping kids explore the creative side of science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
Rapoport is currently a full time math evangelist.
J.A. Yoder, a co-author of
Math Games Lab for Kids, holds a degree in computer science from Caltech.
She is an educator and engineer who has a lifetime love of puzzles
and patterns. Her educational philosophy is that hands-on
creative work is both the most fun and the most effective way
to learn. She developed and taught the original hands-on-math
lessons for an after-school program that eventually inspired
this book. Some of her happiest memories come from “eureka
moments”—either from learning something that makes a dozen
other things suddenly make sense, or the sense of accomplishment
that comes from solving a clever puzzle. The only thing
better is sharing this joy with others.
