National Math Stars

About Us

National Math Stars ensures mathematically extraordinary students from all communities have the resources they need to reach the frontiers of math and science.

Through our Awards Program, we collaborate with schools and districts to identify and recognize their highest-achieving 2% of 2nd- and 3rd-grade math students. Those students are invited to a competitive admissions process, which aims to select the top talent from all communities. (You could roughly think of this as “the best young mathematician in every ZIP code,” if the US didn’t have quite so many ZIP codes!) We admit those top students (our “Stars”) and work with them (and their families) over the course of a decade to support their journeys to the frontiers of STEM.

We launched our Stars Pogram in Fall 2024, which is geared towards high-need families. It provides them with significant scholarships, fully funded courses and camps, individualized guidance, mentoring, and community gatherings to achieve exceptional outcomes. This program currently serves 71 students and is in the process of recruiting a third cohort, of 100 additional Stars, from across six states.

In response to overwhelming demand from families with talented kids and in service of achieving our goal of supporting top talent from all communities, we will be launching a new program (name TBD). We envision this program will be much larger (with cohorts of thousands, not hundreds) and will admit students from every community (including high-income). The support this program offers will be lighter-touch, lower-cost, and more community-driven, but will still significantly improve participants’ chances of extraordinary achievement in math and science.

Perks and Benefits

All full-time roles at National Math Stars include a competitive benefits package:

• Fully paid health, vision, and dental coverage for employees, plus partially paid coverage for dependents

• 401K plan with automatic company contributions

• Work-from-home stipend for purchase of a laptop and/or home office supplies

• Generous paid time off, including parental leave

• Free pie every Pi Day

As we are a non-profit, there is no equity ownership in the company, and thus that is not part of our compensation package.