Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1973 he has taught mathematics at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he holds the Cartter [sic] Lupton distinguished professorship. Dr. Kennedy became an Advanced Placement Calculus reader in 1978, which led to an increasing level of involvement with the program as workshop consultant, table leader, and exam leader. He joined the AP Calculus Test Development Committee in 1986, then in 1990 became the first high school teacher in 35 years to chair that committee. It was during his tenure as chair that the program moved to require graphing calculators and laid the early groundwork for the 1997 reform of the Advanced Placement Calculus curriculum. The author of the 1997 Teacher's Guide – AP Calculus, Dr. Kennedy has conducted more than 50 workshops and institutes for high school calculus teachers. His articles on mathematics teaching have appeared in the Mathematics Teacher, The American Mathematical Monthly, and The College Mathematics Journal. A frequent speaker on mathematics education at professional and civic meetings, Dr. Kennedy has served on the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America and the Executive Committee of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board. He was named a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1992 and a Presidential Award winner in 1995.

Dr. Kennedy coauthored Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, and Algebraic and Precalculus: Graphical, Numerical, and Algebraic, and he is a series author of the Prentice Hall textbooks in Algebra One, Algebra Two, and Geometry.