Our primary mission is to educate students with the skills and perspectives needed for understanding and participating in a complex world.
Omega Math has become a primary source for students of all ages to discover the enjoyment of learning Math. Since there is no set class schedule, students study when and where it's convenient for them.
The developers of Omega Math accommodate the needs of the K - 12 schools, homeschools, colleges, universities, and individuals in the general public.
The online math courses work very well in the classroom setting. We have many schools that use our program for their on-campus curriculum. One teacher can have students in Basic Math, Algebra l, Algebra ll or Geometry all in the same room. The Basic Math and Algebra l are also offered in Spanish. These courses meet California State Standards. Please visit our Standards Page for more information.
Nancy Davis is the author of the online math curriculum. When she first started teaching in the late 1980's, she became interested in how students learned math. Students always told her the lessons seemed easy when she was explaining the topics in class, but when they got home it was a different story. Many topics in math are too deep for students to fully understand the first time around, they need to have material demonstrated several times. Curriculum time constraints make this impossible in the classroom, so Ms. Davis began writing booklets to send home with the students.
Ms. Davis sent the lessons home with the students, and asked them to go over the examples and let her know where they got lost. The places where the students got lost needed better explanations and/or more examples. Ms. Davis would realize a more efficient way to present the concepts and would add more examples at those points. The booklets would then be sent home again with the students from the next semester. This continued until there were no more questions, and students reported they understood the entire section.
Every booklet included many examples with the English explanation that goes along with each problem. The lessons started out with the easiest example and then moved to the more advanced problems. At each topic level, there were interactive problems for the students to work out. After the students worked out a problem on their own, the concept was cemented into long term memory.
These booklets were used for the basis of the online math courses. Even though there are thousands of students using the online curriculum, Omega Math gets very few questions. As of today, thousands of adults and youths have benefited from the online courses and have been able to advance in school and move toward their goals.
Nancy Davis started out at a Community College where she earned an Associates of Science in Math and Science. She received her Bachelors degree in Mathematics, and then continued on to earn her graduate degree in Pure Mathematics and a second in Teaching Mathematics.
Ms. Davis has been an instructor of Mathematics and Computer Science since 1989. She has taught at Community Colleges as well as at the University level. Her range of Math instruction is: Basic Math, all levels of Algebra, Calculus and Finite Mathematics. She currently teaches Math and Computer Science at a California State University.
Each year Ms. Davis has excellent evaluations from students and faculty alike. Students often comment on how delighted they are with her unique teaching methods and claim they understand math for the first time in their lives.
Rick Parham has worked on the online courses since 1996. The animations that Rick has added to many of the lessons have aided students in understanding very difficult concepts.