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MOEMS Board of Directors
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George Lenchner(1917-2006)
In 1955 he created the Nassau County (NY) Interscholastic Mathematics League (NCIML) for high school students, perhaps America's first regional math contest outside of New York City run by the schools themselves. Five years later, he created a similar junior high school league for Nassau County. His article in the Mathematics Teacher (NCTM, February 1959) on the NCIML sparked the formation of similar leagues by many county and state math organizations across the nation. In 1970 he became Director of Mathematics for the Valley Stream School District, working with elementary schools for the first time. His inservice course, The Art of Problem Solving in School Mathematics, meant for Valley Stream teachers, eventually became a book for Houghton Mifflin, one of many books and articles that he authored or co-authored for major academic publishers. A master teacher, his students include several prominent mathematics educators and his workshops have inspired people on four continents to participate in the Math Olympiads. Among his honors are: National science Foundation Fellow; HEW Department Fellow; Mathematics Teacher of the Year Award, NYS Society of Professional Engineers; Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award, Harvard University; Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism, EPA of America; Founder's Award for Outstanding Service, NCIML; LIMACON Award for Outstanding Contributions to Mathematics Education, Long Island Mathematics Conference; Goudreau Award for Outstanding Contributions to Mathematics Education, Goudreau Museum of Mathematics and Science. |
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Richard Kalman Executive Director, 1995 - present Current Activities Selected Past Activities As a classroom teacher of grades 7-12 for 34 years, Mr. Kalman built nearly every lesson around nonroutine problems that successfully elicited the concepts to be taught from his students. For his unending work on behalf of students, he has received awards from 13 different organizations. |
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John Lufrano Executive Secretary (1996 - present ) Mr. Lufrano began his teaching career in Yonkers, NY, were he coached a mathlete team at Roosevelt HS in the Westchester Interscholastic Math League. He then began a long and distinguished career in the Valley Stream Central HS District on Long Island, NY as teacher (Central HS), department head (South HS) and Director of Mathematics at the High School District. He also served as Director of Mathematics in the Freeport Schools from 1990 - 1995. Mr. Lufrano received a BS from Manhattan College, an MA from Hunter College and a PD from St John's University. He had served as President of the Mathematical Olympiads from 1985 - 1995. In 1996 Mr. Lufrano became Executive Secretary of the Mathematical Olympiads and is responsible for maintaining and processing all the statistical data. In addition he is the CFO for the Olympiads. Awards And Accomplishments Nassau County (NY) Mathematics Teacher of the Year Award
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Selma Landsberg Executive Secretary Emerita (1996 - present) Mrs. Landsberg is a member of the MOEMS Board of Directors for life.
For seventeen years (1979 - 1996) she was Executive Secretary, the friendly
voice on the phone so well known to so many PICOs. In 1978 as Dr. George
Lenchner began to design the Math Olympiads for the Valley Stream, NY
school district, he was assigned an office adjoining the one in which
she was a secretary. His excitement over his new project was so electric,
she felt compelled to help, willingly working during lunch and after school.
Rapid growth forced both of them to retire in 1983 to devote themselves
fulltime to the Olympiads. She controlled all recordkeeping until her
retirement, guiding it from handwritten formats she processed alone, to
handwritten formats she processed with help from several volunteers (including
her whole family), and then to a computerized format she processed alone
using a computer program designed in 1983 by John Botti, a high school
student. In her final year, 1995 - 1996, she processed about 3210 teams
- by herself. The procedures she designed are still in use today, with
minor modifications. |
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Marshalyn Baker MOEMS Board Member Since 1974, Marshalyn Baker has taught grades 4 through 8 at Messalonskee Middle School in Oakland, Maine. She is a graduate of the University of Maine at Orono, earning her bachelor's degree in elementary education, her master's in literacy, and a certificate of advanced study in math, science, and technology. Marshalyn Baker's professional activities include serving as president of ATOMIM (the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Maine), board member of ATMNE (the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England), leadership cohort with the National Academy of Sciences, NCTM Affiliate Services committe and chair, board member of NCTM, Solar System Educator, GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) Satellite Master Teacher, and Northern New England Co-Mentoring Cohort mentor. Ms. Baker is a PICO for MOEMS and has lead Math Jams sessions for two years. She is a math team and Math Counts team coach. Marshalyn has presented at NCTM conferences and ATMNE conferences on Long Island and in South Dakota as well as at numerous state and local conferences and workshops. She has organized and run affiliate leadership conferences for NCTM. In her "spare" time, Marshalyn enjoys being with her husband, two sons, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, reading, playing games and solving puzzles, golfing with friends, and rooting for the Red Sox and Patriots. |
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Curt Boddie MOEMS Board Member (1997 - present) A graduate of Spring Hill College, Curt Boddie earned his master's degree from Hofstra University. While he began his teaching carreer as a reading/english teacher in Chicago, Mr Boddie soon found his real home as a math teacher where he spent more than 30 years in the Manhasset public schools. Curt Boddie has been active and has served as an officer of the Nassau County Interscholastic Mathematics League, the New York State Mathematics League, Mathematics Olympiads for Elementary/Middle Schools (MOEMS), and the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in New Hyde Park, NY. He has been honored in 1993 as the High School Math Teacher of the Year by Nassau County Mathematics Teachers Association, in 2001 received the Educational Leadership Award from the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics, in 2002 received the National Teacher presented by RadioShack Corporation, and in 2003 was a finalist for the New York State Presidential Award for Excellence in Math Teaching Mr Boddie has also been involved as a presenter for the Nassau County
Math Teachers Associationas, as a reader for Advanced Placement Calculus,
as an instructor for the Gifted and Creative Problem-Solving Institute
at SUNY Old Westbury, as a Committee Member in the NYS Teacher Certification
Committee, and as an enrichment instructor at the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics. |
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Dr. Carl Bonuso MOEMS Board Member |
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Judy Broadwin MOEMS Board Member Judy Broadwin along with George Lenchner and Martin Rudolph co-authored the AP Calculus Solutions Book from 1982 to 2001. The book gave detailed solutions to the Calculus AB and Calculus BC exams starting with the 1969 exam. Judy also taught AP Calculus at Jericho High and was on the Test Development Committee that made up the exam in the years preceding the adoption of the new curriculum. In addition Judy was an instructor for T^3 giving many workshops all over the world for Texas Instruments. She is currently teaching calculus and precalculus at Baruch College. She wants to remind calculus teachers that the Math Olympiads still has AP Solutions Books to sell.
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Dr. Sam Carpentier President Dr. Carpentier, now an assistant professor at Molloy College in its graduate education program, is a retired elementary principal having served 33 years in the public school sector. He was appointed to the board in 1985. Prior to serving on the board, Dr. Carpentier was a PICO for many years. Throughout his years on the board he has held several positions before his election to the presidency in 2000. |
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Sandy Cohen An Original PICO Sandy Cohen received a Masters Degree from Brooklyn College. She is a retired elementary math teacher and the author of Figure It Out, a set of problem solving materials, published by Curriculum Associates. Sandy works as a consultant and is a frequent speaker at local, regional and national math conferences. Sandy received awards for Educational Leadership from LIMACON and the Goudreau Math Museum. Sandy's association with the Math Olympiads organization goes back to the very beginning, when the organization was known as LIMOES - Long Island Math Olympiads for Elementary Schools. Sandy considers herself fortunate to have been taught by the master himself, George Lenchner.
Sandy's philosophy has always been that children learn best when math concepts are presented in a problem solving context. Using Math Olympiad problems has been an important part of the way she taught her math classes, and continues to teach when consulting in schools and modeling lessons for teachers. |
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Grant Duffrin MOEMS Board Member
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Dr. Carole Greenes Professor, Mathematics Education
Carole Greenes received her Ed. D from Boston University. She teaches courses focusing on mathematics education research, curriculum issues, and programs for young children. She is author or co-author of more than 300 books and articles, and five musical mysteries and histories of mathematics education. Among her publications are: Big Math for Little Kids, Groundworks: Algebraic Thinking, Hot Math Topics, Houghton Mifflin Mathematics, Mathletics , the NCTM Navigations Series (PreK-Grade 2), The abc's of Algebra, and Niktu. Dr Greenes is co-PI for the National Science Foundation's Focus on Mathematics for middle and high school students; and member of the Executive Committee of The Conference Board of The Mathematical Sciences, Steering Committee for NCTM's Navigations Series, College Board's Curriculum Vertical Alignment committee, and Chelsea, Massachusetts School Management Team. She is a past President of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics. In 2003, Dr. Greenes was elected to the Massachusetts Mathematics Educators' Hall of Fame. |
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Mort Harrison MOEMS Board Member
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Dorothy Hess MOEMS Board Member Dorothy Hess received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Brooklyn College, where her love of math was cultivated. Since college she has been involved in math. She began her career teaching in New York City in 1966. She is now retired from the Malverne School District where she taught math and computers at the middle school level from 1979 to 2001. During her years in Malverne she was a Math Olympiad PICO. While teaching in Malverne, she received the honor of being recognized as their Teacher of the Year. In 2003 she received an Educational Leadership Award from the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics. Dorothy served as a math research consultant on Square
One, a math television show sponsored by Childrens' Television Workshop.
She was Middle School Representative for the Association of Math Teachers
of NYS, and continues to serve in the Assembly. Dorothy is past president
of Nassau County Math Teachers Association and has been an active member
of the Executive Board of since 1984. She has been co-chair of an annual
conference for teachers, K-8, at a local college since 1988. Dorothy Hess
is director of conferences for MOEMS. She handles all arrangements for
the exhibits and is an enthusiastic and energetic leader for the Math
Olympiad team at conferences around the country. |
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Margery Masters MOEMS Board Member Margery Masters is a graduate of SUNY at Geneseo with
a BS Degree in Early Childhood Education. She has an MS Degree in Education
from LIU at Southampton. For the last 19 years Margery has taught at
Sag Harbor Elementary School, holding the position of Math Specialist
for 15 of those years. In this capacity, she coordinates the curriculum
as well as teaches in classrooms. Problem solving is a major concern
at Sag Harbor and the problems that MOEMS participants tackle are a
part of the daily lives of their students. |
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Cheryl Novick MOEMS Board Member |
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Eric O'Brien MOEMS Board Member Eric M. O'Brien is a 6th grade teacher in Bellmore, New York and a coordinator at the Creative Problem Solving Institute at SUNY Old Westbury in Old Westbury, New York. Eric makes word problems and big concepts the focus of his classroom instruction, and he encourages his students to share their problem solving methods with each other. Since 2000 Eric has worked with Math Olympiads as an editor of M level problems. As an editor, Eric enjoys exploring word problems, looking for a variety of solutions and enriching follow-ups to use in his classroom and to share with others. Many of those follow-ups appear in the solutions enclosed with the monthly problems. Asked why he considers Math Olympiads a vital addition to a classroom, Eric answered, "While the contests are a great motivation for students, I enjoy discussing the problems afterwards with the kids. I present one problem per day, asking students to created various methods to solve each problem. The children gain greater mathematical abilities as they develop solutions and consider extensions to the original question." Some of the extensions Eric mentions have been quite involved. His presentation at the 2004 NCTM Annual Convention in Philadelphia highlighted the topic of Nested Squares and Rectangles, an enrichment of a Math Olympiad problem. Eric showed teachers a variety of extensions from the original problem that potentially can serve students for two to three weeks as they create methods to determine the number of squares or rectangles nested inside a larger square or rectangle.
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Dr. James Rubillo MOEMS Board Member Jim Rubillo has been the executive director of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics since 2001. In the prior 30 years he served Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania in a variety of roles including professor of mathematics, associate dean for information systems and services, executive assistant to the president for planning assessment and research, and chairperson of the department of mathematics and computer science. Jim also served as a high school teacher and department chair. He has served as a consultant for many corporations in the areas of quality improvement and project management. He frequently conducts workshops for elementary school teachers. Jim is a frequent speaker at professional meetings and has made over 630 invited presentations in 50 states and 7 Canadian provinces. He earned a M.A, in mathematics degree from Villanova University, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by West Chester University of Pennsylvania. |
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MOEMS Board Member A recently retired professional with 40 years of experience
in mathematics education including teaching and department chair duties
and math team coach at Hudson High School, Bryan is known locally, regionally,
and nationally as one of the most influential educators involved in student
math competitions. For most of his career in education, Bryan has been
involved in the Worcester County Mathematics League, the American Regions
Mathematics League (ARML), and the Massachusetts Association of Mathematics
League. He has been the coach of the Western Massachusetts ARML All Star
Team since its inception in 1996. He has been a member of the ARML Executive
board since 1985 and is presently the President of ARML. He has served
as President of ATMIM (Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Massachusetts)
and was a member of their Board of Directors for almost thirty years.
He also served as Conference Chair of the 1988 and 2002 NCTM Regional
Conferences in Boston. He is the Conference Co-Chair of the ATMNE (Association
of Teachers of Mathematics in New England) conference in 2007. Bryan has
been the recipient of the Massachusetts Presidential Award for Excellence
in Teaching Mathematics, a Tandy Technology Scholar, the American Regions
Mathematics League Founder’s Award, and was inducted into the Massachusetts
Mathematics Hall of Fame in 2002. He was featured in a video production
sponsored by NCTM and has been recognized by Cornell University for his
far reaching impact on students. Bryan was the author of the MOEMS Division
E contest problems for nine years. This husband and father of two earned
both his bachelor's and master's degrees at Worcester State College. |
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Dr. Perletter Wright MOEMS Board Member |
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Dennis Mulhearn MOEMS Board Member Math and Computer teacher at Valley Stream South High School in Valley Stream since the fall of 1969. He has taught virtually every Math course and every level there from Math 7 through Advanced Algebra. When computers arrived in Valley Stream, Dennis began designing and teaching courses involving the computer. For 25 years, Dennis Mulhearn spent his summers teaching Math & Computers in VS's summer school programs. And for another 10 years, Dennis spent his after school time teaching in the private yeshiva Mesivta Ateres Yaakov in Elmont and Hewlett, NY. Along the way, he has moderated VS South's Computer Club, Computerletes team, Chess Club, and It's Academic team. Teachers have taken a number of in-service courses with Dennis, and many have participated in problem solving workshops led by Dennis. If your team's scores have been processed accurately and the MOEMS website delights you, Dennis did it. |
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