Degrees with fields, institutions and dates:

• M.M., Mathematics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1992
• Candidate Ed.D., Mathematics Education, Boston University, 1977-80
• M.Ed., Mathematics Education, Framingham State College, 1976
• B.S., Mathematics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1968

Major Institutes attended:

• NCSSM Writing Workshop in Statistics, 2000
• Leadership Program in Statistics, NCSSM, 1999
• DIMACS Research and Education Institute, Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization, Rutgers University, 1998
• DIMACS Research and Education Institute, Cryptography and Computer Security, Rutgers University, 1997
• Leadership Program in Discrete Mathematics, Rutgers University, 1992

Professional service:

• Instructor in Mathematics, Wellesley High School, 1972-present
• Resident Faculty Consultant, YSP, Rutgers University, 2001-2004
• Visiting Scholar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1989-90
• Visiting Lecturer, Framingham State College, 1977-79
• Long term substitute teacher at various schools, 1970-71

Military service:

• U.S. Army, 1968-70, Sp/E-5, MOS: 13E20, RVN 1969-70

Professional society memberships:

• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• American Statistical Association
• National Council Teachers of Mathematics
• Wellesley Teachers Association
• Massachusetts Teachers Association
• National Education Association

Honors and awards:

• Outstanding Teacher Award, 2000, University of Chicago
• ABC Teacher Appreciation Award, 1999, A Better Chance Program
• Community Service Award, 1998, Town of Wellesley
• Who's Who in American Education, 1996, 2004
• Outstanding Teacher Award, 1995, Tufts University
• Twice nominated for George Olmsted Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching, 1993, Williams College
• Crockett Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991, Wellesley High School
• Redfield Educator of the Year, 1987, Wellesley High School
• Pi Lambda Theta, Honor Society, Boston University
• Dean's List, University of Massachusetts

Papers and published solutions of journal problems:

• Facility Location Problems, DIMACS Educational Module Series
• An Exercise in Sampling: Rolling Down the River, with C. Doetsch, P. Flanagan-Hyde, M. Harrison, and J. Tabor, NCSSM Writing Workshop
• More Than Your Heart Desires ... An Exercise In Blocking And Sampling, with C. Doetsch, P. Flanagan-Hyde, M. Harrison, and J. Tabor, NCSSM Writing Workshop
  • Teacher Notes
  • Calculator Activities
• Langford Numbers, In Discrete Mathematics, TBP
• A Mean of Roots, College Mathematics Journal, 29 (1998) pp. 435-436
• A Quadratic Recurrence Relation, Mathematics Magazine, 71 (1998) pp. 321-322
• An Integral Sum of Cube Roots, Mathematics Magazine, 71 (1998) pp. 316-317
• A Geometric Equality, College Mathematics Journal, 29 (1998) pp. 155-156
• Triangles with One Angle Twice Another, College Mathematics Journal, 28 (1997) pp. 233-234
• Closely Related Triangle, American Mathematical Monthly, 103 (1996) p. 906
• A Corollary of Ceva's Theorem, College Mathematics Journal, 27 (1996) p. 315
• A Plethora of Pairs of Primitive Pythagorean Triples, College Mathematics Journal, 27 (1996) p. 314
• What's So Special About 6174, In Discrete Mathematics, Issue #7, Fall Winter 1995
• Solving a Quadrilateral, College Mathematics Journal, 26 (1995) pp. 330-331
• A Parallelogram Characterization, College Mathematics Journal, 25 (1994) pp. 466-467
• Counting "Diophantine" Triangles, College Mathematics Journal, 25 (1994) pp. 243-244
• Buffon's square, Mathematics Magazine, 67 (1994) pp. 69-71
• Constant Ratios in a Triangle, College Mathematics Journal, 24 (1993) pp. 475-476
• Summing a Series of Volumes, American Mathematical Monthly, 100 (1993) pp. 882-883
• Another Trigonometric Inequality, College Mathematics Journal, 24 (1993) pp. 272-274
• A Triangle Dissection, Mathematics Magazine, 66 (1993) pp. 131-2
• cosA:cosB:cosC = 2:9:12  =>  a:b:c = 6:5:4, College Mathematics Journal, 24 (1993) p. 97
• Triangular Numbers, Mathematics Magazine, 65 (1992) pp. 266-267
• y_n+1 = ay_n^x, College Mathematics Journal, 23 (1992) p. 347
• A Triangle with Concurrent Median, Altitude, and Angle Bisector, College Mathematics Journal, 23 (1992) p. 252
• The Area of a Pedal of a Pedal Triangle, American Mathematical Monthly, 99 (1992) pp. 169-170
• Quadrilateral subdivision, Mathematics Magazine, 64 (1991) pp. 277-278
• Configuration of Perpendiculars, Mathematics Magazine, 64 (1991) pp. 203-204
• Sums of Roots, College Mathematics Journal, 21 (1990) p. 339
• Averaging to Integers, American Mathematical Monthly, 97 (1990) p. 432
• Reciprocals of Triangle Sides, College Mathematics Journal, 20 (1989) p. 449
• Circumscribable quadrangle, Mathematics Magazine, 62 (1989) pp. 200-201
• A Concurrence in the Eternal Triangle, American Mathematical Monthly, 96 (1989) pp. 449-451
• A Combinatorial Sum, Mathematics Magazine, 62 (1989) pp. 63-65
• A Reversed Digit Problem, Mathematics Magazine, 58 (1985) p. 117
• A Three-Winged Butterfly Problem, Mathematics Magazine, 58 (1985) p. 115
• A Parallelogram Generated from a Triangle, American Mathematical Monthly, 88 (1981) pp. 66-67
• Mean and Intermediate Value Properties, Mathematics Magazine, 53 (1980) p. 51
• A Standing Problem, Mathematics Magazine, 52 (1979) p. 116

Selected Talks:

• Facility Location in the High School Classroom, 3rd Annual Boston College/Rutgers Conference on Discrete Mathematics for K-12 educators, March 2004
• Featured guest on the radio show Math Medley hosted by Dr. Pat Kenschaft, August 2002.  Click here to see a list of recent guests.
• Paradoxes in Voting Methods, Wellesley High School, February 2001
• Experimental Design and Random Rectangles, Roxbury Latin School, March 2000
• Experiences in Module Writing, Reconnect-99, Rutgers University, July 1999
• The Wald line and Leverage in Regression, NCSSM, July 1999
• Commencement Address, Wellesley High School, June 1999
• Facility Location Problems, DREI, Nov 1998
• Discrete Mathematics in the High School Curriculum, Wellesley High School, June 1998
• Apportionment on the TI-82, LPDM, May 1997
• Combinatorics in the Elementary Classroom (with Carolyn Collins), Developmental Workshops, Wellesley Public Schools, January 1997
• The New AP Statistics Exam (with Anne Carroll), LPDM, August 1995
• John Conway's Calendar Computation, LPDM, July 1994
• Various Modular Arithmetic Check Digit Schemes, LPDM, March 1993
• Fairness in the Huntington-Hill Method of Apportionment, LPDM, July 1992