Goods of the Mind was founded in 2007 as a provider of online competitive math classes.  Since 2007, we have trained students who wish to participate in mathematics competitions from elementary grades to high school. Each year,  many of our students qualify for the American Invitational Math Examination while some of them participate in the USAMO. 

One of the founders is Mrs. Cleo Borac, who co-authored 11 volumes of the Competitive Mathematics Series, a top seller on amazon.com under 'Math education and training'. Her focus has always been on understanding what motivates students and how progress in problem solving actually occurs. As a result, we can say that we provide not only a lecture, or a tutorial, but a learning experience that is driven by the feedback from participants. We do not only teach, we also coach because we care a lot about what happens at the other end of the wire: what skills we try to develop or improve and how well we manage to do it. 

We do not ‘lecture’ and the student does not ‘attend’. Instead, we work together. While other providers may teach the facts of math and science, we are more interested in the effect of our lessons on the students’ ability to create and build. A lecturer, no matter how good, delivers a lecture. We, on the other hand, work with the students through the topic. There is a difference. By working with students we learn a lot about their process, time constraints, goals, and what it takes to help them progress faster. With us, it is about each student.

At Goods of the Mind, we maintain a free repository of over 100 sets of lecture notes and over 400 original problems: www.mathinee.com is a free resource!

Explore our website to find out more about our experience teaching students worldwide, about how we answer some of the parents' questions and concerns, and what students and parents say about us.

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Goods of the Mind is run by Cleo Borac, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Bucharest, Romania, with a M. Sc. in applied physics, Andrei Borac, who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington with a degree in computer engineering, and Silviu Borac, a Ph. D. in mathematical physics from the Technical University in Berlin, Germany, former IPhO medalist, currently at Google.