Deborah J. Bennett

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Deborah Jo Bennett (born 1950) [1] is an American mathematician, mathematics education scholar, and book author. She is a professor of mathematics at New Jersey City University. [2]

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Education and career

Bennett is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama; her father was a military officer and her mother worked as a computer systems analyst. [1] She majored in mathematics at the University of Alabama, graduating in 1972, and worked as a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analysis and as an operations researcher for the US Government Accountability Office before returning to graduate school for a master's degree in operations research at George Washington University in 1980. [3]

After a year in Ghana teaching mathematics through the Peace Corps, she became a mathematics instructor at Pace University from 1981 to 1987, and at Farmingdale State College from 1984 to 1993. While doing this, she also completed a Ph.D. in mathematics education at New York University in 1993. [3] Her dissertation, The Development of the Mathematical Concept of Randomness: Educational Implications, was supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg. [4]

She joined New Jersey City University as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1993, adding a concurrent appointment in education in 1999. She has since become a full professor, and served two terms as president of the University Senate. [3]

Books

Bennett is the coauthor of the textbook Algebra for All (with Phillip Aikey and Julio Guillen, McGraw-Hill, 1997). [3] She is also the author of two popular mathematics books, Randomness (Harvard University Press, 1998), [5] and Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You (W. W. Norton, 2004). [6] Her book Logic Made Easy was listed as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice Reviews. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bennett, Deborah J. 1950-", Encyclopedia.com, retrieved 2021-03-06
  2. ↑ "Deborah Bennett, Professor, Mathematics", Faculty & Staff Directory, New Jersey City University, retrieved 2021-03-06
  3. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), April 2019, retrieved 2021-03-06
  4. ↑ Deborah J. Bennett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Reviews of Randomness:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Logic Made Easy:
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