I’m joining AoPS to bring kids to the frontiers of science and technology

March 2025 · By Andrew Sutherland

PERSONAL NEWS TIME! I am joining Art of Problem Solving as its new Chief Product Officer. AoPS is an advanced math curriculum company that serves the most ambitious and motivated students in the world. Notably, every member of the United States team at the International Math Olympiad has been trained by AoPS. The company is mostly unknown today, but I’m certain it will be world-renowned in short order. I pop out of bed every morning buzzing with excitement for the task ahead of me.

The frontiers of science and technology are rapidly expanding. Revolutions are under way in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and clean energy, among many other fields. We need to bring as many kids as possible to these frontiers, making them capable of shaping the craziness unfolding around them.

How do you bring kids to the frontiers? By helping millions of kids fall in love with math. We’re going to make them so obsessed they wake up at 8 A.M. on a Saturday morning to do math for fun.

AoPS has been quietly at work on this problem for a couple of decades. If you peek behind the curtain at the major AI labs, many of their researchers learned math with AoPS textbooks. Now it’s my job to scale up AoPS’s approach to problem solving.

AoPS shows kids hard, interesting problems

I first heard about AoPS from a kid who was obsessed with math. I was teaching a class at MIT, and I had a funny freshman student. In high school