Place of Birth:

Wilna, Poland

Citizenship:

Naturalized USA

Education:

Boston College, A.B., A.M., M.S.

Weston College, Ph.L., S.T.L.

Brown University, Ph.D.

Position at Boston College:

Founding Director, Mathematics Institute

Professor (Emeritus), Department of Mathematics

Additional Professional Activity:

Investigator on Air Force contracts

Instructor to personnel at Polaroid Corporation

Director and instructor in National Science Foundation institutes

Author and/or consultant for William Sadlier Company, Science Research Associates, Creative Publications, Dale Seymour Publications, and Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company

Served as consultant to schools nationally and internationally

Memberships:

35 professional organizations

Leadership Role in Organizations:

Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England

Northeastern Section of Mathematical Association of America

Mathematics Section of American Association of Jesuit Scientists

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Author:

Authored or co-authored over 100 scholarly works since 1970, including:

• Designs from Mathematical Patterns, with M.J. Kenney and L. Silvey. Palo Alto, CA: Creative Publications, Inc., 1978. Second Edition: Dale Seymour Publications, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1990.
• "A Polynomial Formula for Fibonacci Numbers," with S. Kokoska. The Fibonacci Quarterly. Vol. 28, No. 2, May 1990, pp. 151–155.
• Informal Geometry Explorations, with M.J. Kenney and J. Martin, Palo Alto, CA: Dale Seymour Publications, Inc., Sep. 1991.
• Heart and Mind: A Classroom Odyssey. Palo Alto, CA: Dale Seymour Publications, Inc., Jan. 1993.
• "Looking at Problem Solving Matters Discretely," with M.J. Kenney. Math in the Middle. Needham, MA: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1993, pp. 16–17.
• "Implementing the Discrete Mathematics Standard; Focusing on Recursion," with M.J. Kenney. Mathematics Teacher. Vol. 86, No. 8, Nov. 1993.
• "Finding the Factors of an Integer." New York State Mathematics Teachers' Journal. Vol. 44, No. 3, 1994, pp. 167–172.
• "A Discrete Interface with Geometry," with M.J. Kenney. CMC Communicator. Vol. 21, No. 1, 1996, pp. 48–52.
• A series of 23 Calendar Problems (mathematics challenge problems and solutions) with M.J. Kenney appeared in the April and May 1997 "Calendar" pages of Mathematics Teacher.
• "Honest Numbers: A Mathematics and Languages Connection," with M.J. Kenney. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. Vol. 3, No. 2, Oct. 1997, pp. 142–147.
• "Even Perfect Numbers: (Update)2," with M.J. Kenney. Mathematics Teacher. Vol. 90, No. 8, Nov. 1997, pp. 628–633.
• A Survey of Calculus, with M.J. Kenney and G.K. Mele. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Press, 2002.
• Number Treasury², with M.J. Kenney. Parsippany, NJ: Dale Seymour Publications, 2000.
• "The Little Red Schoolhouse," NCSM Newsletter, Vol XXXII, No. 3, Spring 2003, pp. 18–19.
• "Penny Packing for Your Thoughts," with M.J. Kenney. Mathematics Teacher. Vol. 96, No. 4, Apr. 2003, pp. 249–253.
• "That Ubiquitous Sum: 1 + 2 + 3 + … + n", with M.J. Kenney. Mathematics Teacher. Vol. 98, No. 5, Dec. 2004–Jan. 2005, pp. 316–321. Reprinted with permission in Virginia Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 43–46.
• "Just Five Does It," with M.J. Kenney. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. Vol. 12, No. 8, Apr. 2007, pp. 436–441.
• "The Three R's: Recursive Thinking, Recursion, and Recursive Formulas," with M.J. Kenney. Algebra and Algebraic Thinking in School Mathematics, 70th Yearbook. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2008, pp. 81–98.

Awards:

1990: Recipient of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Glenn Gilbert Award for leadership in mathematics education

1995: Recipient of the Mathematics Education Trust Foundation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching

2001: Inducted into Massachusetts Hall of Fame for Mathematics Educators