Mylab Math With Pearson Etext 18 week Access Card for Mathematics All Around

Acerca del autor

About our authors

Tom?Pirnot began college as a music major at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, intending to spend life as a performing musician. But a dreaded, required physics course in his sophomore year changed his academic career path forever. In that course, he became fascinated by the beauty and power of mathematics and began to take as many mathematics electives as possible.

Upon graduation (with a degree in music), he entered The Pennsylvania State University as a graduate student in mathematics. Because of his music background, he was assigned to organize and coordinate the very first liberal arts mathematics course offered at the University Park campus, beginning a love affair with liberal arts mathematics that continues to this day.

After earning his Ph.D. in abstract algebra, he joined what is now Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics and computer science, as well as over 150 sections of liberal arts mathematics. In addition to his teaching, Tom is also a popular speaker at local, statewide, and national mathematics conferences and workshops.

Tom has always been an innovator in the teaching of liberal arts mathematics, and his earlier liberal arts text Mathematics: Tools and Models, with Dalton Hunkins, introduced many topics and ideas that are used in teaching liberal arts mathematics today.

He earned an excellence in teaching award from Kutztown University and was also awarded a Distinguished Teaching Chair from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Tom enjoys spending time with his loving wife Ann, and their 4 children and 7 grandchildren. In his spare time, he likes to sing, fish, play tennis and keep the weeds from overrunning their garden.

Margaret (Peggy) Moore has been a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Southern Maine since 2004. A native of Maryland, Peggy has largely called Maine home since enrolling at Colby College for her undergraduate degree. A declared history major taking multivariable calculus for fun, Peggy's path was forever changed when her faculty mentor encouraged her to consider declaring a second major in mathematics. Deciding to pursue a graduate degree in statistics, Peggy left Maine for graduate work at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University but returned to the Pine Tree State to begin her career teaching, first at Colby College and later at Maine Maritime Academy before joining the University of Maine System.

Peggy is passionate about teaching; helping her students achieve academic success is her top priority. She is committed to active learning and incorporating metacognitive strategies in all of her classes, resulting in numerous cases where students have experienced a paradigm shift in their relationship with mathematics. She has been involved with general education and curricular reform over the last decade and has presented at numerous state and national conferences about her innovative teaching strategies.

Committed to her family, Peggy is happiest surrounded by her husband, children, mom and siblings. She particularly enjoys time spent outdoors; you can find her with snowshoes in the winter and on her stand-up paddleboard in the summer.