Math Challenge Teachers
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Thomas Griffiths
Tom earned his BSc/ARCS from Royal College of Science London University in 1961 and Dip Ed at Newcastle University in 1962. He taught math at Crawley West Sussex from 1962-66 and then was math department head at Forest, Ontario from 1966-76. While at Forest, Tom undertook graduate courses at the University of Waterloo and obtained an MSc in Mathematics in 1975. He taught at Lucas High School in London Ontario from 1976-95. After retirement from public school education, Tom set up the Math Challenge program in 1997 and has continued to teach in the program to the present.
Tom has been involved in Ontario math curriculum development, high school math textbook writing, OAME council, CMS National Math Camps, and several math competitions as a writer, marker, and validator. His awards have included a Descartes Medal (1986), OAME life membership (1994), and Western University Deans’ Special Award of Merit (2003).
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Peter O’Hara
Peter O’Hara was a high school math teacher for 32 years. During that time, he was awarded the Descartes medal from the University of Waterloo for outstanding service to mathematics education in Ontario. He was part of the team that created and ran the Esso Summer Math Camp held at Western for nearly 25 years. He has been involved with the Math Challenge @ Western programme for more than 20 years. Through the University of Waterloo, he has been involved with the teams responsible for the creation of Pascal, Fryer, Galois, and Hypatia Canadian Mathematics Contests for 25 years and has marked many of the Canadian Math Competition papers.
In retirement, he keeps active with golf and spending time with family and friends. During the past 12 years, he has helped review all of the Canadian Math Contests from Waterloo and the admission forms for students applying to math programs at Waterloo along with tutoring a variety of students in mathematics from grades 6 through 12.
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David McMillan
David McMillan is a retired elementary school teacher from London. Dave taught for more than 30 years with the TVDSB, concentrating on grades 3 to 8. He also substitute-taught for many years after retirement.
Dave graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Western in 1972. His wife, son and daughter are also Western graduates.
He learned about the Math Challenge at Western while teaching full time and has volunteered there for over 20 years.
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Erica Morrill
Eric Morrill is a teacher with the Thames Valley School Division. She has been with the Math Challenge program for approximately 15 years. Erica will share more details of her biography when she can find time in her busy schedule.
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Allen O’Hara
Allen has worked at Western for the past decade and has been helping at the Math Challenge for almost as long. He can be found bouncing between the different sessions, covering for others when they have other commitments, but his favourite is to work on the Saturday sessions with the younger students. Having been a former attendee when he was younger, Allen is always excited to get involved in the Math Challenge @ Western.
When not helping out with the program, Allen is an instructor at Western and its affiliated colleges. He teaches many of the first year math courses offered at Western passing along his passion and personal perspective with mathematics to his students.
