Professor Sigurdur Helgason, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Massachussettes Institute of Technology, has been engaged as principal math consultant for ACE-Learning, LLC and ACE-Learning Systems Pte Ltd to meet the needs of ad-hoc professional development of math teachers in public/private schools subscribed to the ACE-Learning System.

Math teachers will have free access to an MIT math professor for consultation through the ACE-Learning System. Teachers may share their questions in the Teachers' Forum whereby rich threaded discussions may evolve. Teachers also have the option to share their discussion only amongst their school colleagues or keep their discussion private.

Dr. Lai Chee Chong is a prolific writer of numerous MOE-approved primary school mathematics textbooks (including “In-Step Maths” series and “Discover Maths” series), O-Level (including “Mathematics Matters” series) and assessment books for use in Singapore as well as elementary school and A-Level mathematics textbooks for overseas curriculum. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from McMaster University, Canada.

He conducts workshops and seminars for primary and secondary school teachers and parents. His passion and interest is to make mathematics learning more creative and interesting while developing creative and critical thinking skills. He has been developing some of the new and innovative online lessons for our system and contributes to our online teachers’ forum with Prof. Helgason. He is the principal consultant to our math content development team and review contributions for our online lessons and interactive labortaories submitted by teachers.

Professor Eric Mann, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies, College of Education, Purdue University, was one of our staff's instructor in the "Gifted Education Program Development" course in the Summer of 2006.

We have learned much from him about the philosophy about gifted education and methodology in developing a gifted education program and teaching resources.

Professor Rebecca Mann, Associate Director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI) and Assistant Professor of Educational Studies, Purdue University, is our main contact for collaboration work with GERI in reviewing and coordinating the development of gifted education resources for math in the ACE-Learning System.

Professor Dennis R. Short is a Professor of Computer Graphics Technology in the School of Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

He is also Co-Director of ACE-Learning, LLC, and contributes in the area of automating our anmation work

Photo (taken at 9pm on Tue 14 Feb 2006 at Legal Seafood Restaurant beside MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) showing part of the MIT team collaborating with ACE-Learning, LLC, to develop content for Secondary School Physics.

The project will accelerate in the Summer of 2008 with target completion date in 2010.

From left: Larry, Markos, Tycho, Prof. Walter Lewin, and Ian Chua (President/CEO of ACE-Learning, LLC).