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Patricia Clark Kenschaft (born 1940){{r|born}} is an American mathematician. Formerly professor of mathematics at Montclair State University, she is now a professor emerita there.{{r|falconer}} She is known as a prolific author of books on mathematics, as a founder of PRIMES, the Project for Resourceful Instruction of Mathematics in the Elementary School, and for her work for equity and diversity in mathematics.{{r|hay}}

Education and career

Kenschaft graduated from Swarthmore College in 1961, earning a bachelor's degree with honors in mathematics and with minors in English, philosophy, and education. She earned a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, and then returned to the University of Pennsylvania for doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in 1973, while in the same period raising a child and founding a nursery school in Concord, Massachusetts.{{r|cv}} Her dissertation, in functional analysis, was Homogeneous -Algebras over , and was supervised by Edward Effros.{{r|mgp}}

After working in adjunct positions at St. Elizabeth's College and Bloomfield College, she joined the Montclair State faculty in 1973, and was promoted to full professor in 1988.{{r|cv}}

Service to the profession

Kenschaft became the founding president of the New Jersey Association for Women in Mathematics in 1981, and of the New Jersey Faculty Forum in 1988. She chaired the Committee on Participation of Women of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) from 1987 to 1993, the Committee on Mathematics and the Environment of the MAA from 2000 to 2004, and the Equity and Diversity Integration Task Force of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 2003.{{r|cv}}

Books

Recognition

Kenschaft was the 2006 winner of the Louise Hay Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics "in recognition of her long career of dedicated service to mathematics and mathematics education" and for her work "writing about, speaking about, and working for mathematics and mathematics education in the areas of K–12 education, the environment, affirmative action and equity, and public awareness of the importance of mathematics in society".{{r|hay}}

She was the 2013 Falconer Lecturer of the Association for Women in Mathematics and Mathematical Association of America, speaking on "Improving Equity and Education: Why and How".{{r|falconer}}

References

1. ^Review of Calculus: A Practical Approach*{{citation | last = Rodriguez | first = Dennis M. | date = March 1977 | doi = 10.2307/3027223 | issue = 2 | journal = The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal | page = 89 | title = none | volume = 8}}
2. ^{{citation|url=http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kenschaft/vita.html|title=Curriculum vitae|accessdate=2018-02-27}}
3. ^Reviews of Environmental Mathematics in the Classroom*{{citation | last = Mayes | first = Robert | date = March 2004 | issue = 3 | journal = The Mathematics Teacher | jstor = 20871564 | page = 221 | title = none | volume = 97}}*{{citation | last1 = Dobler | first1 = Carolyn Pillers | last2 = Lenth | first2 = Russell V. | date = May 2004 | issue = 2 | journal = The American Statistician | jstor = 27643537 | page = 175 | title = none | volume = 58}}*{{citation | last = Perkins | first = M. L. | date = July 2004 | doi = 10.1017/s0025557200175266 | issue = 512 | journal = The Mathematical Gazette | jstor = 3620868 | pages = 334–335 | title = none | volume = 88}}*{{citation | last = Kaplan | first = Daniel | issue = 1 | journal = The UMAP Journal | pages = 83–85 | title = Review | url = https://www.macalester.edu/~kaplan/papers/UMAP-review.pdf | volume = 25 | year = 2004}}*{{citation | last = Coupland | first = Mary | issue = 1 | journal = The Australian Mathematics Teacher | pages = 25–27 | title = Review | url = https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=184217907852854;res=IELHSS | volume = 60 | year = 2004}}
4. ^{{citation|url=https://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/programs/falconer-lectures/past-recipients/patkenschaft|title=Pat Kenschaft|work=Past Falconer Lecturers|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=2018-02-27}}
5. ^{{citation|url=http://www.ams.org/notices/200605/comm-awm.pdf|title=AWM Awards Presented in San Antonio|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|date=May 2006|page=587|volume=53|issue=5}}
6. ^Review of Linear Mathematics: A Practical Approach*{{citation | last = Stenger | first = Allen | date = November 2013 | journal = MAA Reviews | title = Review | url = https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/linear-mathematics-a-practical-approach}}
7. ^{{mathgenealogy|id=36223}}. However, see {{MR|2623178}} for the full title.
8. ^Reviews of Mathematics for Human Survival*{{citation | last = Shulman | first = Bonnie | date = October 2002 | journal = MAA Reviews | title = Review | url = https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematics-for-human-survival}}*{{citation | last = Rauff | first = James V. | date = Fall 2002 | issue = 3 | journal = Mathematics and Computer Education | title = Review | url = https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-235287851/mathematics-for-human-survival | volume = 36}}
9. ^Reviews of Math Power*{{citation | last = Neil | first = Marilyn S. | date = December 1998 | issue = 4 | journal = Teaching Children Mathematics | jstor = 41197180 | page = 253 | title = none | volume = 5}}*{{citation | last = Arvold | first = Bridget | date = January–February 2000 | journal = AWM Newsletter | title = Review | url = https://www.awm-math.org/bookreviews/JanFeb00.html}}*{{citation | last = Ziliak | first = Ellen | date = October 2014 | journal = MAA Reviews | title = Review | url = https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/math-power-how-to-help-your-child-love-math-even-if-you-dont}}
10. ^Review of Winning Women into Mathematics*{{citation | last = Brunner | first = Regina Baron | date = December 1991 | issue = 9 | journal = The Mathematics Teacher | jstor = 27967421 | pages = 770–772 | title = none | volume = 84}}

Education and career

Service to the profession

Books

Recognition

References

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