Our Mission
PLAY Dragon Math Academy inspires kids to develop a passion for mathematics and learn creative problem-solving skills useful for math exams and competitions in middle school and beyond. 
​As part of our mission, we are dedicated to providing pro bono session to foster kids.

Upcoming sessions

SUMMer 2024 introduction to competitive math

There are many prestigious math competitions out there, which have a long tradition of high achievement and excellence. However, debuting into the competition math scene can be a daunting task. Our goal here at Dragon Math Academy is to help you gain a foothold by sharing our competition experience, as well as teaching some introductory methods of problem solving. Our course will be mainly targeted towards AMC 8 and AMC 10, both of which are excellent competitions that promote a creative mindset. Through our program, you will learn how to approach competition problems with some simple techniques, taught in a well-paced and understandable manner. We also teach more advanced techniques to approach AMC 10 and even some low level AIME questions for more seasoned students.

Our staff are all high school students who have excelled at many math competitions, including the AMC 10, AIME, Mathcounts State, SMT, BAMO, and BMMT. Our motivation to produce this program is solely from our passion in creative thinking, and our hope to foster it in our future generations. All funding will go to PLAY Foundation and used for charitable causes.
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If you have any more questions about our program, please email us at [email protected].
Dates: Monday through Friday at the following weeks:
Session 1: 7/8-7/12
Session 2: 7/17-7/21
Time: 7-9PM PST
Price: $35 for one session, $60 for both
PAYMENT METHODS
Zelle: [email protected]
Venmo: ​@PLAY-Foundation

For any questions, contact [email protected]
Information about our course is above (which includes class times and pricing), along with the link to the registration form and the information to make payments. If you have more questions, email us at [email protected]. Your support for our math group and for PLAY Foundation is greatly appreciated!
~The Dragon Math team

payment policies

class expectations
  1. ​ When you make the payment on Zelle or Venmo, add a note saying "Dragon Math [student's full name]" and send a screenshot of the confirmed payment to [email protected]. This way, we will know that your student's registration is complete.​
  2. Payment for the class must be made before the session starts. You will not be able to access class materials until your payment is confirmed.
  3. We will offer refunds for our program based on how far we are into the session. Each day of our session is $7, so for each day of our session you attend, you will be entitled to $7 less of a refund.
  1. Be on time. Students who came in late in the past not only missed out on material themselves, but hindered the entire class' progress.
  2. Do not share class materials with anyone. Please protect the integrity of paid online classes.
  3. Having video on in the meeting is highly encouraged.
  4. Be respectful when speaking/chatting.
  5. Homework is not checked, however you will get the most value out of the classes by doing them to the best of your ability.
  6. Asking questions is very much encouraged! A plus about Zoom is that you have a choice of privately chatting instructors, so there should be no reason not to ask for help.

ABOUt dragon math

Dragon Math is a branch of PLAY Foundation, that provides comprehensive math tutoring and prep classes. Our coaches are high-schoolers that are top math competitors who have excelled and achieved high distinctions in national competitions. We provide affordable math turoring to give students an opportunity to think deeply about contest-style math problems. All funds raised by Dragon Math go towards improving local schools.
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Five years ago, Richard Wu and Vedant Kumud created Dragon Math to provide affordable math tutoring. Because it is a non-profit, Richard and Vedant were motivated to keep Dragon Math going solely because of their passion of math and teaching. Both Richard and Vedant have continued being a part of Dragon Math all the way through their senior year of high school, and they have recruited more members who will keep it running for more years to come.

members

Dalbert Wu (Codirector)

Dalbert Wu is a rising sophomore at Amador Valley high School. He has done competitive math since 7th grade, and has achieved a 196.5 JMO index this year. He has also made Mathcounts State and written problems for local math competitions. Outside of mathematics, he enjoys competitive coding, and is an USACO silver coder. He also enjoys playing flute and piano, and is a 3 time NCBA and 1 time CBDA musician.

Seojin Kim (Codirector)

Seojin Kim is a rising sophomore at Amador Valley High School. He's been doing competition math since 6th grade, and is a 2x AIME qualifier, achieving a JMO index of 208 this year. He also regularly competes/places at smaller competitions such as SMT or BAMO and teaches for various local organizations. Outside of his passion for math, he enjoys competitive programming and playing the saxophone, and was in the CBDA All-State Junior High School Jazz Band.

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Daniel Jeon (Treasurer/Secretary)

Daniel Jeon is a rising sophomore at Amador Valley High School. He has been involved in competitive math since 8th grade and is an AIME qualifier. Outside of mathematics, he also has a keen interest in biology and debate, earning an honorable mention in the USABO open exam and being a varsity-level Public Forum debater as well as an officer for Amador's Speech and Debate Club respectively. Outside academics, he enjoys playing the trumpet and playing golf and basketball.

Former members

Soham Garg (FMR. director)

Soham is a rising senior at Amador Valley High School. From a young age, he has been interested in competition math. He has received a lot of awards, and some in his list is a 2 time AIME Qualifier, 1 time DHR AMC 10, getting first place in Math Kangaroo nationally, top 100 in MathLeague, and many many more. He also placed 4th in the Pleasanton Math Tournament. He is very passionate about teaching math, and is currently teaching three classes! He also co-founded a non-profit math organization, called TheCALT, with his brother. He also has his own YouTube channel, where he makes videos about interesting math topics. In his free time, he likes to code, play basketball and badminton, do robotics, and dance!

Sanjay Ravishankar

Sanjay Ravishankar is a rising junior at Amador Valley High School. He loves solving math problems in a creative and unique way. He has participated in AMC 8 for 3 years, receiving Honor Roll for the last two years. He also has qualified for the MATHCOUNTS Chapter Invitational in 2021 and AIME in multiple years. Sanjay has engaged in several MathLeague contests (and qualified for the State competition) and AMC 10 competitions. Additionally, Sanjay likes to read, write stories, play recreational sports, learn more about interesting topics, and play chess. 

Abhiram Voleti

Abhiram Voleti is a rising senior at Amador Valley High School. In his academic pathway, he has taken rigorous math courses such as AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics, and is on course to take Multivariable Calculus. Additionally, he serves as the Director of Curriculum and math tutor at a local math club in his school, IntAMS. Abhiram has also been a Boy Scout for 6 years, and has almost achieved the Eagle Rank. In his free time, he likes working out, competing in science bowl, playing chess and video games, watching movies, and reading books.

Rohan Garg

Rohan is a rising sophomore at Amador Valley High School. He has been doing competitive math since 7th grade, and some of his accomplishments include being a 3x AIME qualifier, a 26 on USAJMO, qualifying for the Countdown Round for Mathcounts Nationals and getting 6th overall, and placing in smaller olympiads/competitions such as BMT / BAMO. Other than that, he does competitive programming and is a USACO Gold contestant and Candidate Master on codeforces. In his free time, he does science bowl, linguistics, physics, lectures at his old middle school, and plays SetWithFriends.

Ryan Fu

Ryan Fu is a rising sophomore at Amador Valley High School. He's been doing competition math since 6th grade, and has been a 3x AIME qualifier, achieiving a JMO index of 190 this year. He also regularly places at smaller competitions such as SMT, or BAMO, and teaches for various local and national level organizations. Outside of his passion for math, he also enjoys competitive programming, debate, and tennis.

richard wu (co-founder and fmr. director)

Richard graduated from Amador Valley High School in 2020. He has been passionate about math and would love to share his knowledge of math with the community. Richard is a USAJMO qualifier, a USAMO qualifier, a five-time AIME qualifier, and MATHCOUNTS State qualifier. He has also attended many other competitions, winning first place among all 10th graders in the fall startup event, sixth place at Stanford Math Tournament Discrete Round, seventh place at Stanford Math Tournament Geometry Round, tenth place in the Mandelbrot Competition, and honorable mention at BAMO. Besides math, Richard has qualified for and gotten the gold medal on USAPhO, and is a USACO gold medalist. He also enjoys volunteering and swimming. He has ran a summer math program for 4 years, with Dragon Math Academy this year being his 5th. Richard is the Emeritus Director of PLAY Dragon Math Academy.
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 richard deng (fmr. director)

Richard Deng graduated from Dougherty Valley High School in 2020. He began exploring competitive math in elementary school and continues to further this passion while sharing it with others. He is a three-time AIME qualifier and a winner of the MathLeague State Championship. He has previously taught at Dragon Math Academy and other math competition classes for Math Olympiads, AMC, and MATHCOUNTS. Another field he is interested in Biology, attending the summer program COSMOS at UC Davis to explore Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems as a rising sophomore. He also was a semifinalist of the USA Biology Olympiad. Outside of academics, he enjoys sprinting, biking, and skiing.
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Vedant kumud (Co-founder and fmr. director)

Vedant graduated from Amador Valley High School in 2021. He has been taking part in math contests from eighth grade. He is a USAJMO and USAMO qualifier, getting a 14/15 on the 2020 AOIME and placing in the top 50 on the 2020 AIME. He also placed in the top 50 at HMMT 2020. He is a USACO Platinum qualifier too.
When not doing Math, he loves hanging out with friends, playing Piano, Tennis and Badminton. He co-runs a YouTube channel On The Spot STEM, where he records videos on various math, coding, and physics topics.
An Eagle Scout, Vedant has been instrumental in building Dragon Math from inception to implementation and is the co-founder and Director of PLAY Dragon Math Academy.  
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 Alex ren (fmr. instructor)

Alex graduated from Foothill High School in 2020. He is passionate about mathematics and would like to share his passion with others. He has participated in many math competitions, and is a MATHCOUNTS State qualifier and AIME qualifier. Besides mathematics, Alex also enjoys swimming, piano, and volunteering.

Julian Xiao (fmr. director)

Julian is a senior at Amador Valley High School. He joined Dragon Math as an instructor three years ago and is currently the Co-Director of Dragon Math. He has participated in math contests since elementary school and has achieved highly in many competitions. He scored within top 16 in the MATHCOUNTS state round and is a MathLeague national qualifier, scoring fifth nationally in tenth grade. He reached the AMC 10 Distinguished Honor Roll, scored top 60 nationally in the USAJMO, and received Honorable Mention in USAPhO. He believes that competitive math should not be studied intensively but instead at a comfortable and enjoyable pace, since anyone can develop a firm understanding of math if only given enough time. Apart from math, Julian also enjoys swimming and especially making music. He has been part of PLAY for six years and is also the orchestra leader for PLAY Music.

kaden nguyen (fmr. director)

Kaden is a rising senior at Amador Valley High School. Since 1st grade, he has been actively participating in competitive math contests. Kaden is a USAJMO and USAMO qualifier, achieving AMC 10 Distinguished Honor Roll. He has qualified for AIME five times, placed 2nd in the MathLeague National Championship, placed 1st overall in the MathCON National Championship, and won 2 national gold medals for Math Kangaroo. In middle school, Kaden won the PUSD annual middle school math tournament and reached the top 16 in the MATHCOUNTS State Competition. As captain of the Pleasanton high school math team, Kaden competed in prestigious math competitions like the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT) and the Stanford Math Tournament (SMT). Aside from participating in contests, Kaden enjoys teaching math as well, having been a director and teacher at Pleasanton Math Circle. Kaden is the president of the Amador Valley Math Club and has assisted with math clubs at Mohr Elementary and Harvest Park Middle School. Kaden is currently the Co-Director of Dragon Math Academy.
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morris wu (fmr. treasurer)

Morris Wu is a rising 12th grader at Amador Valley High School. His hobbies include math, coding, and playing the viola and piano. He is a USACO silver coder and an AIME qualifier. This is his second year at Dragon Math.

akash madiraju (fmr. vice director)

Akash Madiraju is a senior at Amador Valley High School. He has been actively participating in math competitions since the 6th grade. He qualified for AIME three times, and won the Amador Math Tournament and Geometry Bee in 8th grade. Other than math, he enjoys playing piano and saxophone, and also likes computer programming, qualifying for USACO Gold. 
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