Ms. Denise Dark is a 26 year veteran of the primary classroom. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and Alabama's District II Elementary Teacher of the Year. In 2005 she was named Outstanding Early Childhood Practitioner by the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. She currently teaches at Jeter Primary School in Opelika, AL. 

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Mr. Jack Frederick, Principal Systems Engineer with Raytheon Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, serves as a leader in the SLAMRAAM Missile Program. Jack holds a BS in Chemical Engineering with extensive experience in rocket design, development and testing with Raytheon, NASA and Morton Thiokol.  He holds a Black Belt in Six Sigma and served as an Instructor in the Raytheon Program Management College and on the Steering Committee.  In 2002 the United Nations asked Jack to serve as an UNMOVIC Weapons Inspector in Baghdad. Jack began building rockets at six under tutelage of his older brothers…he still has two hands and ten fingers!  Drawing on life experience and technical expertise Jack conducts seminars on Rocket Science & Leadership.  He’s been happily married to Gail for 36 years through three children, a foster daughter, two sons-in-law and three grandsons.

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Ms. Gayle Herrington, B.A. in mathematics, Spelman College, and M.Ed. in mathematics education, North Carolina State University, is a doctoral candidate at Auburn University. She has taught high school mathematics and worked as an education specialist with NASA. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Secondary Mathematics Education at Columbus State University.

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Ms. Gayle Holladay has taught for 25 years and the last 13 years have been at Opelika Middle School.  The past three years she has taught the inclusion class for sixth grade mathematics. She is a presenter for TEAM-Math, AMSTI and ACTM.  

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Dr. Rebekah M. Lane was born in Wichita, Kansas.  She attended Florida A & M University (FAMU). Dr. Lane graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mathematics. After that, she graduated with a Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Mathematics Education from FAMU.  Next, Dr. Lane obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from Florida State University. Dr. Lane also has experience teaching undergraduate mathematics and mathematics education courses.  She has used technology such as graphing calculators and software packages such as EDUCO and MyMathLab with her students. Dr. Lane was also a McKnight Doctoral Fellow during her Ph.D. studies.  In addition, she published an article in the Journal of the Florida A & M University McNair Program.

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Dr. Liping Ma is an independent scholar in math education. Her teaching career started as a teenager in rural China. During her seven years as an elementary teacher she taught all five grades of elementary school. Later she became the principal of the school. She received a Masters degree in education from East China Normal University. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University. As a McDonnell post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley she revised her Ph.D. dissertation into the book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics.

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Dr. Carol Malloy, Ph.D., is an associate professor in mathematics education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches pre-service methods and mathematics courses and graduate foundations courses. Carol has taught mathematics for 20 years in high schools across the United States. Her scholarly interests focus on equity in education and reform. She is responsive to concerns that many students have difficulty learning mathematics and, specifically, that African-American, Latino and Native American students often lack opportunities to learn quality mathematics and gain necessary skills to perform and understand rigorous mathematics. As a result, she works in local, regional and national professional organizations for equitable opportunity and quality in education, with emphasis in mathematics.

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Dr. W. Gary Martin is a professor of mathematics education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University. Prior to that, he was the Chief Education Officer at the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics, where he served as the project director for the Standards 2000 Project that produced NCTM's updated Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. He earned his doctorate in mathematics education from the University of Georgia and has also held positions in mathematics education at Northern Illinois University and the University of Hawai'i, where he headed a curriculum research and development project for high school geometry. His research interests include the impact of standards on mathematics education and the learning of geometry and proof.

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William McCallum received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, under the supervision of Barry Mazur. In 1989 he joined the Harvard calculus consortium, and is the lead author of the consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts. He is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, chair of the AMS Committee on Education and of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. He continues an active program of research in number theory while directing the newly formed Institute for Mathematics and Education, which aims to improve mathematics education through collaboration between mathematicians, educators, and teachers.

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Dr. Madhuri S. Mulekar is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of South Alabama. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Ph.D. in Statistics. Her research areas of interest are selection and ranking procedures, sequential testing procedures, and classical inference. She is recipient of several National Science Foundation, USARC, and Alabama EPSCoR awards. She directed undergraduate research program (REU) in statistics which was attended by students from colleges and universities all over the United States. She has directed over 40 undergraduate research projects, most of which were externally funded. She has published 50 research as well as teaching-related articles, a book and a book chapter. She has served on various national committees, including Advisory Committee on Continuing Education, ASA-MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Education, and Advanced Placement Test Development Committee for Statistics, to promote statistics research and education. She was elected a Fellow of American Statistical Association.

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Mrs. Pamela Norris is a second grade teacher at Jeter Primary School in Opelika, AL. She has taught for 14 years. She received her B.S. in Early Childhood Education from Auburn University in June 1993 and her M. Ed. in Early Childhood Education from Auburn University in Montgomery in August 1999.  She was inducted into Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society in 1999 and is member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International- Beta Sigma Chapter. She has been a TEAM-Math presenter for four years and serves as School Teacher Leader for my school. She also served on the TEAM-Math curriculum writing committee. Recently she attended AMSTI presenter mathematics cross-over training in Alabaster, AL. She has presented at the ACTM 2004 Conference in Montgomery, AL and the NCTM 2005 Southern Regional Conference in Birmingham, AL. In addition to these activities, she has presented inservice sessions for Opelika City Schools and other school systems in East Alabama. She has been married to Ken for 11 years and has one daughter- Kennedy, age 6. 

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Mr. Kenn Pendleton was a secondary mathematics teacher for over thirty years.  He received his undergraduate degree in Secondary Mathematics Education from Pennsylvania State University in 1968 and his master’s degree in Measurement and Statistics from Maryland University in 2006.  For the past nine years, he has been the Mathematics Test Specialist for GED® Testing Service, and he currently is an adjunct faculty member at Germantown College, where he teaches statistics.

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Dr. Elizabeth Senger has taught 18 years in the elementary and secondary public schools before working at the University of Arizona as a Clinical Professor.  She received her Masters degree in Mathematics Education from the University of Central Florida and her Ph.D. in Teaching and Teacher Education with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Arizona.  Dr. Senger has served as a teacher educator for 12 years at the University of Arizona, Louisiana State University, and Auburn University. Her research agenda includes the beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge of teachers & teacher candidates, as well as students' construction of number and spatial sense. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics education, assists interns in elementary education, and is highly involved in the TEAM math project at Auburn University.  Dr. Senger works interactively with elementary teachers in the public schools, providing professional development collectively and individually.

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Dr. Marilyn Elaine Strutchens is a Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama where she serves as coordinator for the secondary mathematics education program and co-director of TEAM-Math (Transforming East Alabama Mathematics). Moreover, Dr. Strutchens was the chair of the Research Committee for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) for 2007-2008, and she is the series editor for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Second Monograph Series, 2007 - 2011. Dr. Strutchens served as co-editor for NCTM’s 2007 yearbook, entitled The Learning of Mathematics: 69th NCTM Yearbook, authored and co-authored several journal articles, and was the lead editor for the book Changing the Faces of Mathematics:  Perspectives on African Americans. She is also known for her work in some of the NCTM’s Interpretations of the Mathematics Assessment for the National Assessment of Educational Progress Monographs.

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Dr. Stephen E. Stuckwisch is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University.  His research areas are numerical analysis and mathematical modeling.  Over the last seven years he has become involved with K12 mathematic education.  He helped develop and teach a series of web-based advanced high school math classes at area schools.  He is a co-principal investigator of TEAM-Math and is in charge of the Mathematics for Elementary Education classes at Auburn University.

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Ms. Ann Stuedeman has taught Special Education for 30 years. The past 5 years she has done full Inclusion in 8th grade at Southside Middle School in Tallassee, Alabama. She is a TEAM-Math and AMSTI presenter for the 6th through 8th grade and for Inclusion.

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