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Task Force Members
HYMAN BASS is Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. He is Chair of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB), has served on the Executive Committee for the American Mathematical Society, and was Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
BRUCE JACOBS taught at Laney College in the Peralta Community College District for 24 years. During that time, he served as Director of the Experimental College, as Chairperson of the Mathematics Department, and as Director of Project Bridge, an integrated basic skills program that has been nationally recognized. Jacobs has served as a consultant to library literacy programs working on basic mathematics skills and with programs working with the deaf and other disabled people. He has also served on a State of California Work Team designing a State School-to-Work plan.
TONY Q. MARTINEZ has been teaching at Leander High School since 1982 and is currently the Mathematics Department Chair. During this time, he has implemented CORE Applied Mathematics and has served as a nationally recognized teacher trainer for the curriculum. Martinez has served on the Texas Education
Agency's Item Review Committee for the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills and has most recently been selected as a Master Teacher for the National Teacher Training Institute for Math, Science, and Technology. He is currently a member of the Austin Area Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Texas Council of Teacher of Mathematics, the Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
PAMELA MATTHEWS is a faculty member at American University and was a community college instructor for 25 years. As an administrator at Mt. Hood Community College, she was the Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education project, "An Application-Based, Technology-Supported, One-Track Mathematics Curriculum." She serves on the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics and was a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and American Vocational Association's Joint Task Force on Mathematics and Vocational Education. She serves on the Executive Committee of the MSEB and on the National Advisory Committee of the Los Angeles Collaborative for Teacher Excellence, a National Science Foundation funded project. She was on the writing team of the National Research Council's publication, Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn from the Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)?.
PATRICK MCCRAY is Systems Project Leader at G.D. Searle & Co., Monsanto. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Short Course Subcommittee and has served as Chair of the committee. He has served as Governor-At-Large on the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Board of Governors, and as a member of the MAA Taskforce on Board Effectiveness. At the state level, he has served as Chair of the Illinois Section of the MAA and as Editor of its newsletter, Greater than Zero. In addition to belonging to the AMS and MAA, McCray is a member of the Association for Women in Mathematics, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Computer Society.
KAREN DEE MICHALOWICZ has been in secondary education for 33 years. She is the Upper School Mathematics Chair at the Langley School in McLean, Virginia. In addition, she holds an Adjunct Faculty position at George Mason University. She is a Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching.
HENRY O. POLLAK was a research mathematician at Bell Laboratories for 32 years and an Assistant Vice-President at Bellcore for three years. He retired in 1986 and is now a visiting Professor of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
JACK PRICE is Professor of Mathematics Education and Co-director of the Center for Education and Equity in Mathematics, Science, and Technology in the College of Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the immediate past President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
ALAN H. SCHOENFELD is the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education and Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Schoenfeld's research is on mathematical thinking, teaching, and learning. He has focused on problem solving and assessment and is currently a writing group leader for the NCTM's Future of the Standards project, also called "Standards 2000."
DANIEL TEAGUE has recently served on the MSEB, on the Editorial Board of NCTM's Student Math Notes, as the technology consultant for the NCTM Secondary Level standards Addenda Projects, and as a member of NCTM's Commission on the Future of the Standards. From 1985 to 1991 and again in 1993, Mr. Teague served as Co-director of the Woodrow Wilson Summer Mathematics Institutes. Teague and Helen Compton are section editors of "Everybody's Problems" for the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP).