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    DUANE A. COOPER, PH.D.

    Morehouse College

    Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics Division Faculty

    • Associate Professor, Mathematics
    Education

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics and Sociology

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Master of Science

    University of California, Berkeley

    Doctor of Philosophy

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    About Dr. Duane Cooper

    Dr. Duane Cooper is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Morehouse College.

    Dr. Cooper’s research interests are in the mathematics of voting and representation, with particular interests in election procedures that allow for fair representation. In addition, he has experience and continued interest in mathematics student and teacher development. His scholarship has been published in the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, and Public Choice, to name a few.

    PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

    D. Cooper. Spatial Analysis of Cumulative Voting with Modeling for Dynamical System Simulation. Accepted; to appear in Proceedings of Dynamic Systems and Applications, Volume 4.

    D. Cooper (2004). Recommendations for Increasing the Participation and Success of Blacks in Graduate Mathematics Study. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 51 (5), pp. 538-543.

     D. Cooper (2004). Keeping a Proper Perspective about Your Students. In M. Chappelle, J. Choppin, J. Salls (eds.), Empowering the Beginning Teacher of Mathematics in High School, p. 12; also in M. Chappelle and T. Pateracki (eds.), Empowering the Beginning Teacher of Mathematics in Middle School, p. 6; also in M. Chappelle, J. Schielack, S. Zagorski (eds.), Empowering the Beginning Teacher of Mathematics in Elementary School, p. 9. Reston, Va.: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

    D. Cooper (2000). Changing the Faces of Mathematics Ph.D.s: What We Are Learning at the University of Maryland. In M. Strutchens, M. Johnson, and W. Tate (eds.), Changing the Faces of Mathematics: Perspectives on African Americans, pp. 179-192. Reston, Va.: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

    D. Cooper (1999). Navigating the Thorny Path: A Colloquial Definition of Mathematical Literacy. In K. Comfort (ed.), Advancing Standards for Science and Mathematics Education: Views from the Field. Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science.

    D. Cooper (1997). Mathematics. In New Standards, Performance Standards, Volume 2: Middle School, pp. 54-88. Washington: National Center on Education and the Economy.

    D. Cooper (1996). The Mathematics Major: Gateway to a Variety of Graduate and Professional Opportunities. Math Horizons, The Mathematical Association of America, pp. 20-24.

    D. Cooper (1995). Learning Lipschitz Functions. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 59, pp. 15-26.