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Dr. Stephen J. Turner and Kathi King


Professor Turner received his doctoral degree from the School of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts and holds a Master of Science degree in theoretical mathematics from the University of Maine. He has been using Excel spreadsheets intensively in his college teaching for over 20 years. He has published over 16 articles in refereed scholarly journals and presented over 30 papers at national or international conferences. Turner is also an active consultant in the area of statistics. He is co-author of Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1983), Fishing for Data Using the Net, (McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1996), “Excel Spreadsheet Models as a Pathway for Learning Introductory Business Mathematics” (Thomas College, 2003), and author of “Statistical Inference and Decision Making: A Software Intensive Approach” (Thomas College, 2003).

Mrs. King is presently the Mathematics Department Chair at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, Maine.  She received her Bachelors Degree and Master’s Degree in Mathematics at California State University at Northridge and has been teaching mathematics at the secondary level for 30 years in Asia, California, New York and Maine.  Mrs. King was recently appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which oversees the Nation’s Report Card – (NAEP) for the United States Department of Education.  She has also worked with the U.S. Math & Science Initiative to support Professional Development required by the No Child Left Behind Legislation.  Mrs. King has participated in numerous professional development workshops with Texas Instruments, Vernier, Key Curriculum, College Board, and Network of Educators in Science and Technology (NEST) at MIT.  She is a frequent presenter at local, state and regional conferences.  Mrs. King has developed a series of Labs, which closely align to National and State standards, and are on the cutting edge of bringing technology into the classroom to rigorously support traditional curriculum.

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