Theodore Alper has worked at EPGY for the past 12 years as an instructor in secondary mathematics, university mathematics, and java programming. Since 1995, he has been the head coach for the San Francisco Bay Area teams in the American Regions Mathematics League, coaching them to four national championships. He is the founder of the Polya Mathematics Competition and an instructor in the Berkeley Math Circle. He is the author of papers on foundations of measurement in mathematical psychology and a coauthor of papers on the use of technology in mathematics education.

His awards include the Samuel Greitzer Distinguished Coaching Award from the American Regions Mathematics League, the Edith May Sliffe award for distinguished middle school mathematics teaching from the Mathematical Association of America, and the Young Investigator of the Year Award from the Society for Mathematical Psychology.

Mr. Alper’s undergraduate degree in mathematics is from Harvard University, and he has an M.S. in mathematics from Stanford University.