Dr. Alexander Karp is a full professor in the Mathematics Education program, in the Mathematics, Science, and Technology Department. Although traveling a lot, throughout his life he has lived for a long time in two places only: in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was born and raised, and in New York. As a child he [...]
Heather Gould is a fourth-year Ph. D. student in the Mathematics Education program. She grew up in Stone Ridge, a small town in Ulster County, New York. She attended the University at Albany – SUNY and earned a bachelor’s degree with a double major in mathematics and anthropology. She also earned two master’s degrees from [...]
Dr. Joseph Malkevitch, an Adjunct Professor in the Mathematics Education Program, has taught Advanced Topics in Geometry, Advanced Game Theory in Mathematics Education and co-taught Mathematical Modeling. He is a retired professor from York College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Graduate Center at CUNY. He was born and raised in [...]
Dr. Jinho Kim, Mathematics Education program graduate in 2002, was born in South Korea. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at Daegu National University of Education in Korea. Prof. Kim has fond memories of all his professors within the Mathematics Education program at Teachers College, especially Dr. Bruce Vogeli. He recalls various opportunities [...]
On September 26, 2011, the Program in Mathematics held the first session of the Fall 2011 series of Mathematics Colloquia. The featured speaker was Dr. Zalman Usiskin, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, and Mathematics Education Trust Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (2001). Usiskin’s presentation, entitled [...]
The Mathematics Education Program together with COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, are publishing the Teachers College Mathematical Modeling Handbook intended to support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) high school Mathematical Modeling conceptual category. The CCSSM document provides a brief description of mathematical modeling accompanied by 22 [...]
The future looks bright for Nathan Alexander, who is finishing up his second year towards his Ph.D. degree in the Mathematics Education Program. Growing up in North Carolina, he has a southern charm rarely found above the Mason-Dixon Line. Nathan has been an intellectual his entire life. In elementary and middle school, he played the [...]
Dr. Stuart Weinberg and Dr. Lisa Evered visited India along with fifteen graduate students from the Mathematics Education Program to participate in epiSTEME’s 4th international conference in “Research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education” at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) in Mumbai. The epiSTEME conference was unique as [...]
by Heather Gould, Mathematics Education On Saturday, February 12, 2011, the Program in Mathematics at Teachers College presented a forum entitled “Mathematics in American Colleges: ‘Winning the Future’.” The program featured four former university presidents and presidential advisors, each a current visiting professor in the Program in Mathematics Education. This event was free-of-charge and open [...]
Growing up in Boston, Peter Garrity never thought of himself as a good mathematics student. “In high school, I was the kind of person that memorized my way through math, never making any connections. I went to Stonehill College, and I was going to be an economics major but I’m not the kind of person [...]