After completing her primary schooling at Los Angeles High School, went on to receiving her bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics, and a teaching credential from University of California, Santa Barbara, and her doctorate in education from. Her graduate advisor was Doctor Noreen Webb and her thesis was titled The effects of daily problem solving on problem-solving performance, attitudes towards mathematics, and mathematics achievement.
Since 1999, she has been Executive Director of the California Mathematics Project. Susie (Susan) Wong Håkansson is a native Southern Californian born and raised in Los Los Angeles Her parents are first generation Chinese immigrants who owned a small business in the Larchmont area.
After receiving her masters degree in mathematics, Håkansson taught for several years at Huntington Park High School in Los Angeles Unified School District and was involved in several projects to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics.
She served as a head track and field coach and official specializing in pole vault and had the opportunity of working at the 1984 Olympics at Los Los Angeles In 1984, she joined Center X in the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of and Information Studies and served as the site director of the University of California, Los Angeles Mathematics Project.
She took on the position as the statewide Executive Director for the California Mathematics Project in 1999.
