About

Who we are and what we want to do

We are a team of academics and middle school teachers concerned about falling literacy and numeracy rates, and hopeful that we can help turn them around. We want to build lessons you can benefit from whether you are learning, teaching, or practicing. We are so excited that you are here and hope we can share our excitement for a data-literate future.

In our experience teaching at the K–12 and undergraduate levels, we found data projects to be very engaging and educational for students. Analyzing datasets they built themselves and showing charts they made increased the students' self-confidence and helped them build critical thinking and analytical storytelling skills.

You can reach us here: mrsun@learnwithnumbers.com or on our social channels.

Lutfi Sun

Founder and instructor

Meet Mr. Sun!

Mr. Sun is the founder of LWN and teaches its courses. He holds a Master’s in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor’s in Mathematics and Economics from Trinity University. He studied abroad for a year at the London School of Economics, where he received the LSE Widening Participation Tutor of the Year Award and was published in the LSE Working Papers Journal.

His mission to increase data literacy took shape while he was an Instructor at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth, teaching classes such as Fundamentals of Microeconomics and Introduction to Computer Programming. The feedback he received from CTY parents, students, and staff convinced him there's a growing need for data education at the K–12 level.

He has also served as an Institutional Research Analyst at UT Austin and helped Hawaiʻi DOE public schools implement AI and data science education from the middle school to the high school level.

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Michaela Cazares-Nuesser

Meet Dr. Cazares-Nuesser!

Dr. Cazares-Nuesser holds a Master of Education from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

She has taught a range of college-level linguistics classes, where her students learned to conduct research on languages and language learners.

She spent two years teaching in Hawaiʻi public schools, as both a Mathematics and an English & Language Arts teacher.

She has led her students through many data science projects that explore the language arts through numbers and visualization.

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You can read how we build our lessons on the Learners page.

Follow along on YouTube, and join us on Patreon

Students: you will be building a portfolio of real data projects. You will learn concepts and skills that will help you in your education, career, and daily life.

Teachers and homeschool parents: you will have a structured, safe, and ready-to-use data curriculum. Use the guide page on our website that complements each YouTube lesson. If you want more materials like lesson plans, homework assignments, and quizzes, you can join our Patreon as well.