Kanchana Suryakumar is an independent mathematics educator with over a decade of experience teaching high school mathematics. Her current area of interest is teacher professional development. She collaborates with mathematics teachers to make classroom teaching and learning more meaningful and relevant. Prior to her teaching experience, Kanchana spent more than a decade in the software industry as a programmer and product manager. Kanchana has Engineering and Science degrees from BITS, Pilani and an Education degree from TISS, Mumbai.