DR HANG Kim Hoo started his career in 1984 as a mathematics teacher at Raffles Institution. He became principal of Clementi Town Secondary School in 2000 and ran the school till 2004.
Before joining NUS High School, he was manager of the Ministry of Education's School Cockpit Administration Centre, which manages Web data and the information management systems used by schools.
Dr Hang, who holds two master's degrees in statistics and maths education, and a PhD in maths, has been the vice-president of the Singapore Mathematical Society since 1994, a position he enjoys as it lets him talent-scout budding mathematicians.
During one-hour sessions, he sits down with children to discuss maths problems. He wants to continue doing this and attract these children to enrol at NUS High School.
'There are few children who have raw talent in maths. I come across only about one every two years...We need to catch them when they are young and hopefully they will come to our school where we will develop their talent,' he said.
His office is filled with maths textbooks from France, Russia, China and the United States. Beside his desk is a writing board which he uses many times a day to note down ideas on how teaching methods can be improved.
Dr Hang is married, with three children aged 15 to 19 years. His eldest child, Hao Chuien, wants to follow in his father's footsteps and teach maths. He has received a teaching scholarship from the Education Ministry and will be studying maths either at Cambridge or Imperial University.
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