Second Annual TEAM-Math Partnership Conference
Biographical Sketches of Keynote Speakers

Dr. James Fey is Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Maryland where he teaches content and pedagogy courses for prospective high school mathematics teachers. His research interests focus on middle and high school mathematics curricula that emphasize problem-based teaching and innovative use of technology in algebra teaching and learning. This work has been conducted in a series of curriculum development projects, most recently as a principal investigator in the Connected Mathematics and Core-Plus Mathematics projects. He is also director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, a collaboration of several Universities to develop new approaches in doctoral studies for mathematics educators and to conduct research on the development and use of mathematical knowledge by teachers.
 
Dr. James E. Hamos is currently a Program Director of NSF’s Math and Science Partnership Program. Trained as a neuroscientist, he was formally Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Office of Science Education at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Dr. Hamos has served in numerous capacities on committees delving into issues of K-12 education reform – especially as related to mathematics, engineering and science education. For two years, he held a joint appointment in the University of Massachusetts President’s Office where he worked to construct K-16 linkage in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
 

Dr. Judith Sowder is a Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University. Her recent research has focused on the instructional effects of teachers’ mathematical knowledge at the elementary and middle school level. She is a past editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education and apast member of the NCTM Board of Directors. In 2000 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from NCTM. Dr. Sowder was the primary author of the middle school content chapter of the CBMS document The Mathematical Education of Teachers.

 

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