Mouad El Assadi
State Engineer (EHTP) and Agrégation de Mathématiques laureate. I teach advanced mathematics for elite preparatory classes and work at the intersection of data, policy, and program management.
Biography
Mouad El Assadi is a State Engineer (EHTP) and laureate of the Agrégation de Mathématiques. He combines data science with mathematics teaching and program management, designing and delivering advanced mathematics for elite preparatory classes in Rabat. His work spans strategic planning, evidence-based policy, and research on governance in hybrid systems of authority. He is fluent in Arabic, French, and English.
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Curriculum Vitae
State Engineer (EHTP) and Agrégation de Mathématiques laureate. I combine data science with mathematics teaching and program management, designing and delivering advanced mathematics for elite preparatory classes. Fluent in Arabic, French, and English.
Academic Project Manager & Mathematics Instructor
2017 — Present- Design and teach advanced mathematics (analysis, algebra, probability) for elite preparatory classes.
- Manage cross-functional projects, stakeholder coordination, and team leadership.
- Track record of successful admissions to top-tier French engineering schools.
Civil Engineer
2013 — 2015- Contributed to infrastructure and civil engineering projects across multiple organizations.
- Site supervision, technical coordination, engineering design, and quality control.
Agrégation de Mathématiques
2015 — 2017State Engineering Degree (Civil Engineering)
2010 — 2013Preparatory Classes (CPGE)
2008 — 2010Baccalauréat — Mathematical Sciences
2008Navigating Institutional Friction: Governance Burdens in Hybrid Systems of Authority
Research Interests
The questions I keep returning to, across teaching and policy work.
Governance & institutions
How administrative friction and hybrid authority shape what institutions can actually deliver.
Mathematics education
Evidence-based teaching: what measurably improves understanding in demanding mathematics courses.
Quantitative methods for policy
Applying statistics and data analysis to questions where the evidence has to hold up.
Diplomas
Low-resolution, watermarked previews, shown to guard against misuse. Certified copies available on request.
Teaching
Mathématiques MP
Lecture notes, exercise sheets, assignments, summaries and self-tests for MP/MP* preparatory mathematics — written in French. Search or filter, then click to open the PDF.
Click any item to open the PDF — all materials are hosted directly on this site.
For Students
Getting in touch
Email is best. I read messages once a day and normally reply within two or three working days — please allow a little longer during exam periods.
Before you ask a question
Say what you have already tried. A question that shows your attempt gets a far more useful answer than one that only shows the problem.
Recommendation letters
Ask at least three weeks ahead and send your CV, the programme you are applying to, and a reminder of the course you took with me. I only write letters I can write honestly and well.
Using the course materials
All lecture notes on this site are free to download and share for study. Attempt the problems before reading any solution — that is where the learning happens.
Found a mistake?
Tell me. Corrections to the notes are genuinely welcome and I will fix them for everyone.
Working with me
If you are considering a project or preparing for competitive exams, write with a short note about your goals and where you currently stand.
Consulting
I take on a limited number of consulting engagements each year, working with institutions and organisations that need rigorous analysis behind their decisions.
Data & analysis
Quantitative analysis, indicators and reporting that turn raw data into something a decision can rest on.
Programme & strategy
Strategic planning, results frameworks and monitoring for programmes that need structure and follow-through.
Training & capacity building
Workshops in quantitative methods and analytical reasoning, designed around how people actually learn.
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Former Students
Were you one of my prépa students? I would love to know where you are today. Leave a short note to join the alumni wall, and feel free to connect with me — following your journeys means a great deal.
Alumni wall
Teaching Philosophy
My approach owes a great deal to Carl Wieman, the Nobel-laureate physicist who turned the tools of science on science teaching itself. His central claim is simple and demanding: learning is not something a lecture delivers, it is something the student builds — and our job is to design the practice that builds it.
Deliberate practice, not delivery
Expertise is built by working repeatedly on problems just beyond your current reach, with feedback from a mentor. In class, students should be doing the thinking — puzzling through problems like practising mathematicians — rather than watching me do it.
Respect the limits of working memory
Short-term memory holds very little at once. Lasting understanding comes from tackling steadily harder problems over time, not from covering more material faster.
Measure what students actually learn
Wieman's course design turns on three questions: what should students learn, what are they actually learning, and which practices would improve that? Teaching improves when we test our methods as carefully as we test our theorems.
Comfort is not learning
Wieman's research found students often feel they learn less in active classes even while measurably learning more. Effort feels harder than listening — which is precisely why it works, and why I explain this to my students.
Make teaching itself measurable
In the Teaching Practices Inventory, Wieman and Gilbert turn teaching into something a course can be audited on — learning goals, in-class activities, assignments, feedback and testing — so an instructor can see concretely which research-based practices they use and what to improve next. I use it as a checklist on my own courses.
Based on Carl Wieman's science-education research (Stanford), his book Improving How Universities Teach Science, and Wieman & Gilbert, "The Teaching Practices Inventory," CBE—Life Sciences Education 13 (2014).
Books That Shaped My Thinking
A short shelf, with a note on why each one matters to me. These are recommendations only — no files are hosted here.
Improving How Universities Teach Science
The book behind the section above: evidence that how we teach matters more than how brilliantly we lecture.
Make It Stick
Why re-reading feels productive and rarely is. Retrieval, spacing and interleaving now shape how I build problem sets.
Mindset
In prépa, the belief that ability is fixed does more damage than any missing lesson. This book changed how I give feedback.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
A map of the intuitions that mislead us — useful for students learning rigour, and for anyone reading data honestly.
Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom
Practical on stretching the strongest students without leaving the rest behind — the daily balancing act of a prépa class.
Good Economics for Hard Times
Careful evidence applied to messy public problems. A model for the policy side of my work.
Sludge
On the friction buried in administrative processes — directly relevant to my research on governance burdens.
The Teaching Practices Inventory
A 72-item audit of how a mathematics or science course is actually taught. Ten minutes to complete, and uncomfortably clarifying.
Read the paper (open access)Wider Reading
Books I read for their own sake — history, language, ideas and the examined life. Recommendations only; no files are hosted here.
The Comfort Crisis
An argument that a life engineered for ease quietly costs us something. It reframed discomfort for me as a thing to seek out deliberately rather than avoid.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Adlerian psychology in dialogue form. Bracing on separating what is genuinely my task from what belongs to other people.
The Power Elite
Mills on how institutional power concentrates and reinforces itself. Written in 1959 and still uncomfortably current for anyone studying governance.
The Arabic Language
The history of a language I think and pray in. Reading its development scholarly deepened my attachment to it rather than flattening it.
Never Split the Difference
A hostage negotiator on listening. The lasting lesson is that understanding the other side precisely is more powerful than arguing well.
Win Every Argument
Rhetoric taken seriously as a craft. Read alongside Voss, it makes a good pair: one on persuading, one on listening.
I Have Something to Say
On public speaking as a civic skill rather than a performance trick — a good companion for anyone who teaches.
Split the Pie
Negotiation rebuilt on a clean mathematical idea. The rare book in this genre that would satisfy a mathematician.
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
A short, sharp argument for expertise over persuasion when offering professional work.
Videos
Lecture excerpts, explanations and talks. Add or change these any time from the content editor.
Health & Wellbeing
A short digest of practical, evidence-based advice on sleep, light, movement and rest — drawn from Andrew Huberman and Dr Rangan Chatterjee. Each item links to the original episode so you can judge it for yourself.
Advice from Huberman Lab
Rangan Chatterjee — The Four Pillars
Relax
Daily downtime and screen-free moments.
Eat
Whole foods, more fibre and plants.
Move
Daily movement and strength.
Sleep
Protect 7–9 hours.
Chatterjee's point is that these four are interdependent: fixing sleep is easier once movement and stress are handled, and none of them works in isolation.
General information gathered from public sources — not medical advice. Speak to a qualified professional about your own situation.
Quran
A collection of ayat and reflections I keep close, gathered from my daily readings.
يَا بَنِيَّ اذْهَبُوا فَتَحَسَّسُوا مِن يُوسُفَ وَأَخِيهِ وَلَا تَيْأَسُوا مِن رَّوْحِ اللَّهِ ۖ إِنَّهُ لَا يَيْأَسُ مِن رَّوْحِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الْكَافِرُونَ
يوسف · Yusuf 12:87"O my sons, go and seek news of Joseph and his brother, and despair not of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, none despairs of Allah's mercy except the disbelieving people."
ملخّص تفسير السعدي: يحثّ يعقوبُ بنيه على الجدّ في طلب يوسف وأخيه، وينهاهم عن اليأس من فرج الله وروحه ورحمته؛ فإنه لا ييأس من رَوح الله إلا القوم الكافرون لجهلهم بسعة رحمة ربهم وقدرته.
إِنَّ نَاشِئَةَ اللَّيْلِ هِيَ أَشَدُّ وَطْئًا وَأَقْوَمُ قِيلًا
المزّمّل · Al-Muzzammil 73:6"Indeed, the rising by night is stronger in tread and more upright in speech."
ملخّص تفسير السعدي: أي الصلاة في الليل بعد النوم أقرب إلى تحصيل مقصود القرآن، يتواطأ على القرآن القلبُ واللسان، وتقلّ الشواغل.
قَدْ جَاءَكُم بَصَائِرُ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ ۖ فَمَنْ أَبْصَرَ فَلِنَفْسِهِ ۖ وَمَنْ عَمِيَ فَعَلَيْهَا ۚ وَمَا أَنَا عَلَيْكُم بِحَفِيظٍ
الأنعام · Al-An'am 6:104"There has come to you enlightenment from your Lord. So whoever will see does so for his own soul, and whoever is blind does harm against it…"
ملخّص تفسير السعدي: قد جاءتكم حججٌ وبراهين من ربكم تُبصر بها القلوبُ الحقّ؛ فمن أبصر بها فنفعُ ذلك لنفسه، ومن عمي عنها فضررُه على نفسه، وما الرسول عليكم بحفيظٍ يُحصي أعمالكم، إنما هو مبلّغ.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا دِينَكُمْ هُزُوًا وَلَعِبًا مِّنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَالْكُفَّارَ أَوْلِيَاءَ ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
المائدة · Al-Ma'idah 5:57"O you who believe, take not those who ridicule your religion as allies… and fear Allah, if you are believers."
ملخّص تفسير السعدي: ينهى اللهُ المؤمنين عن اتّخاذ من يستهزئ بدينهم أولياءَ، سواءٌ من أهل الكتاب أو الكفّار، ويأمرهم بتقواه؛ فإنّ الإيمان الصادق يقتضي معاداة أعداء الدين وعدم موالاتهم.
Daily Practices · أعمال يومية
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Website
mouadelassadi.com
Location
Salé, Morocco
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