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Albert Bradley Bennett Jr. was born in Camden Maine in 1932. He attended Maine Maritime Academy and a year after graduation returned there to teach. He then attended the University of Maine at Orono and received a Masters Degree in Mathematics. While there he was strongly influenced by the writing and teaching of mathematics-historian Professor Howard Eves.

Decimal Squares Workshop

After graduating from the University of Maine he became a writer for a two-year experimental television program sponsored by the Maine State Department of Education. Next he taught mathematics at Gorham State College and became active in the summer mathematics institutes that were sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England. An early bias that was reflected in his teaching of these institutes was the need to encourage intuition in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

In 1963 he was invited by Professor Charles Brumfiel to attend a National Science Foundation institute at the University of Michigan. He received his doctorate in mathematics from this university in 1966.

In 1967 he joined the mathematics faculty at the University of New Hampshire to teach mathematics to prospective teachers. In the following years he and his wife Jane raised three boys in the university town of Durham.

The lecture approach was the predominate method of college teaching in the 1960s although there was widespread dissatisfaction with this method of preparing teachers. In 1968 Professor Bennett organized a mathematics lab at the University of New Hampshire and started writing laboratory activities for teachers. In the next few years his efforts led to the publication of Fraction Bars Decimal Squares and articles and textbooks for elementary and middle school teachers. In 1975 he and Ted Nelson wrote mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach and its companion volume Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: An Activity Approach. All of these publications support methods of using models and concrete materials in the teaching of mathematics.

Bennett/Nelson text

Bennett/Nelson activity book

In addition to teaching at the University of New Hampshire since 1983 Professor Bennett has worked part time for the Math Learning Center in Oregon with Gene Maier and L. Ted Nelson as an author of Math and the Mind's Eye and with Linda Foreman in writing the Mathematics Alive text materials. In recent years he has been a mathematics consultant for the development of the Bridges K-3 curriculum materials for the Math Learning Center.

Math Mind's Eye Unit IV

Math Mind's Eye Unit VII

Math Alive Course III

Vitae and Publications

Business Address: Dept. of Mathematics University of New Hampshire Durham NH 03824 (603) 862-2681
Home Address: 16 Thompson Lane Durham NH 03824 (603) 868-2730
Date and place of birth: December 11 Camden Maine
Marital Status: Married Wife's name: Jane C. Bennett
Number of children: 3

EDUCATION

Name of institutions Dates of attendance Degrees and year received

Maine Maritime Academy 1951-1954 B.S. Marine Science (1954)
University of Maine 1956-1958 B.S. Education (1958)
University of Maine 1958-1959 M.A. Mathematics (1959)
University of Michigan 1963-1966 D. Ed. Mathematics (1966)

HONORS FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Maine Maritime Academy - Valedictorian
University of Maine - Graduate Scholarship
University of Michigan - two years of National Science Foundation full support University of Michigan - one year teaching fellowship

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Maine State Department of Education Assistant Mathematics Television Teacher
University of Maine at Portland-Gorham Assistant Professor of Mathematics and 1966-67

University of New Hampshire Assistant Professor of Mathematics 1967-72

University of Oregon Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics 1974-75

University of New Hampshire Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of New Hampshire Professor of Mathematics

PUBLICATIONS - TEXTS AND ARTICLES

Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Musser Gary L. "A Concrete Approach to Integer Addition and Subtraction" Arithmetic Teacher (May 1976)
Bennett Albert B. Jr. "Star Patterns" Arithmetic Teacher (January 1978)
Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Schiot Peter "Fraction games - versions and revisions" Teaching Mathematics: Strategies That Work Northeast Regional Exchange Inc. Chelmsford MA
Bennett Albert B. Jr. Decimal Squares Scott Resources Inc. Fort Collins CO Edition 1992 Edition 2003. (A program of games activities tests and manipulative materials. Includes: Decimal Squares Step by Step Teacher's Guide and Decimal Squares Step by Step Workbook).

Bennett Albert B. Jr. Eugene Maier and L. Ted Nelson Math and the Mind's Eye Math Learning Center Salem Oregon
Bennett Albert B. Jr. "Visual Thinking and Number Relationships". Mathematics Teacher (April 1988) 267-72.

Bennett Albert B. Jr. "Visualizing the Geometric Series". Mathematics Teacher (February 1989) 130-36.

Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Foreman Linda Mathematics Alive Math Learning Center Salem Oregon
Bennett Albert B. Jr. "Fraction Patterns - Visual and Numerical." Mathematics Teacher (April 1989) 254-59.

Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Nelson Leonard T. Mathematics For Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach Edition McGraw Hill Publishers New York NY
Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Nelson Leonard T. Mathematics For Elementary Teachers: An Activity Approach McGraw Hill Publishers Edition New York NY
Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Davidson Patricia S. Fraction Bars Scott Resources Inc. Fort Collins CO Edition (A program of games activities tests and manipulative materials. Includes: Fraction Bars Step by Step Teacher's Guide and Fraction Bars Step by Step Workbook.)

Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Nelson Leonard T. "A Conceptual Model for Solving Percent Problems" Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (April 1994)
Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Nelson Leonard T. "Divisibility Tests: So Right for Discoveries " Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (April 2002)
COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Bennett Albert B. Jr. Fraction Bars Online Games Set 2
Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Bennett Albert B. III Fraction Bars Online Games Set 1
Bennett Albert B. Jr. Decimal Squares Online Games
Bennett Albert B. Jr. and Bennett Albert B. III The Mathematics Investigator software to accompany Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach McGraw Hill Publishers New York NY