Al Cuoco
Al Cuoco is a senior scientist and director of the Center for Mathematics Education located at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). A student of Ralph Greenberg, he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Brandeis, with a thesis in algebraic number theory. Cuoco 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 two high school mathematics curriculum development projects, 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 senior curriculum designer at EDC. For the past five years, he has worked on CME Project, a new, four-year comprehensive high school curriculum published by Pearson. Kerins has taught and designed the curriculum for the Park City Mathematics Institute’s program for high school teachers since 2001, and was a core advisor on WGBH’s Learning Math website and video series. In addition, he has been working with the PROMYS program (Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists) at Boston University for seven years. Before coming to EDC, he was a trainer for The MathWorks in Natick, Massachusetts, and a high school mathematics teacher for four years, teaching all levels of high school mathematics, from Algebra I to AP Calculus. Kerins earned a B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1996, and an M.A.T. in secondary mathematics from Boston University in 1997.
Annette Roskam
Annette Roskam has taught high school students in northern Wisconsin for eight years, and field tested CME Project Algebra 1 for two years. She holds a bachelor of science in secondary mathematics and German education from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, a Master of Education in professional development from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, and currently is pursuing a doctorate degree in mathematics education as a fellow in the Mid-Atlantic Center for Teaching and Learning. Her primary interests include improving instruction in ways that improve learning for algebra students and the professional development of secondary mathematics teachers.
Sarah Sword
Sarah Sword taught an Algebra 2 class in which a ninth grader said, "Sometimes I get the what and the how, but not the why. Sometimes I get the why but not the how. Sometimes I don't even get the what." She often thought
of this student's statement while working as a graduate student and post-doctoral fellow on the revision of the middle school Connected Mathematics Project. She continued to think about this while she worked on
the high school program, the CME Project. At EDC, Sarah directs the Mathematics Curriculum Program, a program for K-12 curriculum implementation, and the Center for the Scholarship of School Mathematics,
which focuses on the mathematical preparation of mathematics educators.