First online advanced-maths school opens in Vietnam

PSNews - A new model math school has opened in Hanoi since June, using a curriculum from AoPS - the 900,000-member math community in the US.

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The opening ceremony of the 2023-2024 school year of MVSM.

Minh Viet School of Math (MVSM) was founded in the US by Pham Tuan Anh, who was famous for his role as interpreter for US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden during essential meetings with Vietnamese leaders in 2015-2016.

Recently, MVSM signed a cooperation agreement with the AoPS School in California. AoPS is the largest and most successful after-school advanced maths programme in the United States, with over 750,000 alumni and an online community of over three million. All US team members have recently competed in international math competitions and are former members of AoPS.

In the first school year 2023-2024, the school opens advanced math classes in English for primary students from grades 1 to 5 and supplementary English classes (4 levels). It plans to open more secondary and high school classes in the future.

All the teachers of MVSM are American graduates from prestigious universities such as Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard (with Vietnamese teaching assistants). Students will either study online via Zoom with American teachers or watch the video.

MVSM follows the Pyramid Math teaching model and focuses on instilling a love of mathematics in students, which forms the base of the pyramid. The next layer consists of students with slightly better maths abilities who are selected to take on more difficult lessons. On top of the pyramid are students with real maths talent.

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