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David Bressoud
Macalester College
David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College, a former President of the Mathematical Association of America, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He served in the Peace Corps, teaching math and science at the Clare Hall School in Antigua, West Indies before studying with Emil Grosswald at Temple University and then teaching at Penn State for 17 years. He chaired the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester from 1995 until 2001. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota, Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France), and the State College Area High School.
David has received the MAA Distinguished Teaching Award (Allegheny Mountain Section), the MAA Beckenbach Book Award for Proofs and Confirmations, and has been a Pólya Lecturer and a Leitzel Lecturer for the MAA. He is a recipient of Macalester's Jefferson Award. He has published over sixty research articles in number theory, combinatorics, special functions, and mathematics education. His other books include Factorization and Primality Testing, Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity, A Radical Approach to Real Analysis (now in 2nd edition), A Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration, A Course in Computational Number Theory (with Wagon), and Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic (with Finney, Demana, Waits, & Kennedy). He is PI on the NSF-sponsored national studies of Calculus: Progress through Calculus (NSF #1430540).
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Building on the BOSE Report of Indicators for STEM Education part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Blog Posts
Blog post discussing how the Accelerating Systemic Change Network can build on the National Academies' BOSE report on STEM education indicators, featuring commentary from David Bressoud and Archie Holmes on aligning systemic change efforts with national goals for equity, mastery, and STEM completion.
How can we help change leaders understand how measurement and data can be used? part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Blog Posts
Blog post from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network discussing how change leaders in higher education can better understand the use of measurement and data to drive systemic change, featuring expert responses on data literacy, ROI arguments, ethical implications, and institutional dashboards.
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My Interest in ASCN: David Bressoud part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:x Member Profiles
Profile page for David Bressoud detailing his involvement with the Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN), focusing on organizational change in STEM higher education, calculus reform, quantitative literacy programs, and team-based change initiatives, including his prior work and contributions to systemic change in undergraduate mathematics instruction.
My Interest in ASCN: David Bressoud part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Workshop: July 2016:Participant Profiles
Macalester College Math/Stat/Comp Sci Professor Prior Organizational Change Work Working with Danny Kaplan at Macalester College and with both FIPSE and NSF-DUE grants, we built a quantitative literacy program ...