About
Abba Suraj
I’m Abba Suraj. I build NumeracyHQ — animated math lessons that try to do one stubborn thing: make math actually make sense.
My background is in electrical engineering and information technology. I came to math the way a lot of people do — through building things, not through the academy. That shaped how I think about it: I’m as interested in the picture as the proof, in what actually makes an idea click inside someone’s head.
And I kept meeting the same person. Smart, capable, quietly convinced they were “just bad at math.” Almost none of them were. They’d been handed rules without reasons — flip and multiply, two negatives make a positive, just memorise it — until math stopped being something you understand and became something you fear.
So I make every lesson by hand, frame by frame, with the same animation tools the best math explainers use. Because the right picture can do in fifteen seconds what a thousand worksheets never will. NumeracyHQ is where those lessons live.
“The problem was almost never the student. It was almost always the explanation.”
Today I’m building NumeracyHQ into the place math finally clicks — starting with the concepts people get stuck on most: fractions, negative numbers, and the leap into algebra. One clear picture at a time.
Mission
Nobody should grow up believing they’re “just bad at math.” Almost no one is. The goal is simple — make the ideas visible, so they make sense the first time.
What I do
- Mathematical animation and visual explanation (Manim)
- Making hard ideas intuitive — fractions, negative numbers, the leap into algebra
- Lesson and curriculum design grounded in learning science
- Mastery-based learning that adapts to the learner
- Number sense and early mathematics — how understanding actually forms
- Building the software that delivers all of it
Why this matters
Math is a gatekeeper subject. Fall behind early and it quietly closes doors — in school, in confidence, in the kinds of work and study that stay open to you.
But most people who struggle aren’t short on ability. They’re short on a good explanation. Somewhere along the way they were taught the steps and never the why — and once math becomes memorisation, it becomes forgettable and frightening at the same time.
Visual, intuition-first teaching fixes that. When you can see why something works, you don’t have to memorise it — and you don’t forget it. That’s the entire idea behind everything I make.
Get that right, at scale, and you change how a lot of people feel about a subject they were told they’d never be good at. That’s the problem I work on.
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