AMCUA is a volunteer organization that provides American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) prep classes and offers AMC contests to students currently residing in Ukraine. This organization was started by Larisa Bukalov in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our goal is to deliver additional academic as well as social and emotional support to Ukrainian students that are interested in mathematics.
We are always looking for math enthusiasts and supporters that would like to volunteer. If interested, have a working knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian language, and trained as a math professional please do not hesitate to contact us and join our team.
Larisa Bukalov
Math Association of America (MAA) Liaison to Ukraine
Email: amc12.ukraine@gmail.com
Larisa has been teaching in NYC public schools since 1998. She won several awards for excellence in classroom teaching. She is a four-time recipient of the Math for America Master Teacher fellowship, a 2009 recipient of Queens College’s Mary Fellicetti Memorial Award for excellence in mentoring and supervising student teachers, and a 2017 recipient of Queens College’s Excellence in Mathematics Award for promoting mathematics teaching as a profession. Larisa was born in Ukraine where she simultaneously graduated from a specialized math high school in Vinnitsa, and a distance learning high school at Moscow State University. After emigrating to the United States, she learned English while earning both her bachelor’s degree in math and her master’s degree in math education from Queens College, City University of New York.
Larisa has extensive experience providing professional development to pre-service and in-service teachers. She has provided professional development to early career teachers and math supervisors in New York City on Geometry, Probability, and Problem Solving. She co-authored The Math Teacher’s Toolbox and Practical Algebra, as well as many articles on problem solving and teaching mathematics methods.
For the past 20 years she has been coaching the Bayside High School Math Team. Over the years Larisa tried to make sure that all students in her school that are interested in math are welcome to the math team and participate in math competitions.
YURY VOLVOVSKIY (FIRST PRIZE, RUSSIAN MATH OLYMPIAD)
Yury grew up in Moscow, Russia. He enjoyed solving math puzzles since the age of 5 and in high school regularly competed in multiple math competition. His best achievement was the first prize at the Russian Math Olympiad in 1993. Yury went on to complete graduate studies in mathematics and then worked as a quantitative analyst. He is now a software engineer with Google and still enjoys math puzzles.
