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Charge to the Mathematical Sciences Academic Advisory Committee (.pdf/27K)

Committee members

James Choike
  • James Choike (Chair)
  • Professor, Department of Mathematics, Oklahoma State University

James Choike currently holds the Noble Foundation professorship in Technology-Enhanced Learning Systems at Oklahoma State University. He has more than 20 research publications concentrated in the area of complex analysis. Choike has received numerous awards for his classroom teaching and his work in the area of distance learning. His current interests are in the areas of professional development for teachers of mathematics, curriculum development in mathematics, teaching/learning issues, and assessment in mathematics in grades 6-16. He was a member of the mathematics committee for the College Board Standards for College Success. He currently serves as chair of the SAT® Mathematics Test Development Committee and the CLEP® Precalculus Test Development Committee.

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Amy J. Briggs
  • Amy J. Briggs
  • Professor, Department of Computer Science, Middlebury College

Amy Briggs teaches undergraduate courses in introductory computer science, data structures, theory of computation, discrete mathematics, programming languages, and robotics. Her research interests are in mobile robotics, navigation planning, computer vision, and computational geometry. She is co-director of the Middlebury Robotics and Vision Research Lab, where she and colleagues collaborate with undergraduate students on research projects in visually-guided mobile robot navigation. Briggs is a member of the Liberal Arts Computing Consortium, a group of computer scientists dedicated to undergraduate computer science education and curriculum development. She currently serves as co-chair of the College Board AP Computer Science Commission.

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  • Joan Ferrini-Mundy
  • Assistant Director (Acting) for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation

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Daniel Kennedy
  • Daniel Kennedy
  • Lupton Professor of Mathematics, Baylor School, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Dan Kennedy received his undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross in 1968 and went on to earn a master's degree and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1973, he has taught mathematics at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he now holds the Cartter Lupton Distinguished Professorship. Kennedy became an AP Calculus Reader in 1978, which led to an increasing level of involvement with the program as workshop consultant, Table Leader, and Exam Leader. He joined the AP Calculus Development Committee in 1986, and in 1990 became the first high school teacher in 35 years to chair that Committee. He is a co-author of Prentice Hall textbooks in precalculus and calculus, and a series author of their textbooks in algebra and geometry. Kennedy was named a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1992 and a Presidential Award winner in 1995. He has served on the executive committee of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board and on the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America. His articles on mathematics and education reform have appeared in the Mathematics Teacher, the American Mathematical Monthly, and the College Mathematics Journal.

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Eugene Lemon
  • Eugene Lemon
  • Computer Science Teacher, Ralph J. Bunche High School, Oakland, CA

Eugene holds a B.A. in sociology from Pacific Lutheran University and a B.A. in business administration from the University of Puget Sound in Washington state. He possesses over 30 years of experience in the computer technology field, both as a teacher and as a business consultant assisting companies with the implementation of technology and accounting software packages for their operations. As a teacher, he has worked in schools primarily serving at-risk youth. In his current employment as a teacher, specializing in the computer sciences, at a continuation high school in Oakland, California, he works with students who would otherwise have a difficult time succeeding in a traditional high school setting. Through his classes, Eugene strives to make learning an overall positive experience for his students while helping them to develop core academic skills and meet California's Career Technology Education standards in the Information Technology sector. Eugene is a member of the Computer Science Teacher Association, the Computer Science Teacher Leadership Cohort, The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, and an Alice version 3.0 beta tester.

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Roxy Peck
  • Roxy Peck
  • Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Roxy Peck has been a professor of statistics at Cal Poly since 1979, serving for six years as Chair of the Statistics Department, and she is currently in her twelfth year as Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. Nationally known in the area of statistics education, she was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998 and in 2003 she received the American Statistical Association's Founders Award in recognition of her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education. She is co-author of resource materials for teachers and of two introductory statistics textbooks. She served from 1999 to 2003 as the Chief Faculty Consultant for the AP Statistics Exam. Peck has also served on the SAT Mathematics Test Development Committee and she is a past chair of the joint ASA/NCTM Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for grades K-12 and of the ASA Section on Statistics Education.

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  • Elaine Smith
  • Mathematics Teacher and Department Chair, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School

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