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CSSM Staff
Sarah Sword, Director of the Center for the Scholarship of School Mathematics
Sarah Sword is a Research Scientist at Education Development Center. At EDC, she has been a core member of the following efforts:
- Focus on Mathematics, an NSF-funded partnership with four universities and five school districts.
- PROMYS for Teachers, an NSF-funded program in which secondary mathematics teachers spend six weeks immersed in mathematics.
- The CME Project, an NSF-funded four-year high school curriculum.
- The Park City Mathematics Institute, a summer institute for mathematicians, mathematics educators, and teachers. She has been involved in the design of courses for teachers. In Summer 2006 she will lead a group of teachers in preparing facilitator notes for courses for publication.
She earned her Ph.D. in mathematics at Michigan State University. At Michigan State, she spent two years working on the revision of the Connected Mathematics Project, an NSF-funded middle school curriculum. She worked with the University of Maryland’s Mid-Atlantic Center for Mathematics Teaching and Learning. In line with the goals of the MAC-MTL grant, she co-created mathematics courses with the goal of helping Ph.D. students in mathematics education develop strategies for continued life-long learning of mathematics, particularly of mathematics related to their professional work.
Al Cuoco
Al Cuoco is a Senior Scientist and Director of EDC's Center for Mathematics Education. A student of Ralph Greenberg, he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Brandeis,
with a thesis in algebraic number theory. Al taught high school mathematics to a wide range of students in the Woburn, Massachusetts public schools from 1969 until 1993.
At EDC, he has worked in curriculum development, professional development, and education policy. He currently co-directs a high school
curriculum development project, two professional development projects (one in collaboration with the mathematics department at Boston University and another in collaboration
with the University of Massachusetts), and a project that uses the internet to pair mathematicians and high school students in mathematical research projects. His favorite
publication is his 1991 article in the American Mathematical Monthly, described by his wife as "an attempt to explain a number system no one understands with
a picture no one can see."
Bowen Kerins
Bowen Kerins is a curriculum designer on EDC’s high school curriculum project, The CME Project. He has
a BS in mathematics from Stanford University and an MAT in mathematics education from Boston University. Bowen has co-taught and co-designed the curriculum for the Park City Mathematics Institute's program for teachers since 2001, and was a core advisor on all five strands of WGBH's Learning Math web site and video series. In addition, he has been working with the PROMYS program at BU for seven years. Prior to working at EDC, Bowen taught mathematics from Algebra 1 to AP Calculus in high schools for four years.
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