Andrew Callard

Andrew taught middle schoolers math and coached the Math Counts team at Sidwell Friends for 23 years.  In his position as middle school math department chair over the 16 years, he wrote enrichment curricula for the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades, respectively, to ensure that the most talented students in each grade are adequately challenged and stimulated in their math classes.  He won the Sidwell Friends School Alice Dater prize, awarded to honor outstanding teaching from a faculty member in 2011.  He has coached his team to first place at the State MathCounts Competition for DC public and private middle schools in 2001, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2019.  He has tutored hundreds of middle and upper school students in the DC area in math, physics and test prep over the last 25 years, and has been an evaluator of independent school math programs. In addition to being a lover of puzzles and challenging math problems, he is a singer and composer who has recorded with numerous professional musicians all over the world.  He holds a B.A. from Brown University and M.A in Math Education from the University of Maryland.