Al Cuoco Education Development Center, Newton, MA

Al Cuoco is Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Mathematics Education at Education Development Center. Before coming to EDC, he taught high school mathematics for 24 years to a wide range of students in the Woburn, Massachusetts public schools. A student of Ralph Greenberg, Dr. Cuoco received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Brandeis; his mathematical interests and publications have been in algebraic number theory. His favorite publication is his 1991 article in the American Mathematical Monthly, described by his wife as “an attempt to explain a number system no one understands with a picture no one can see.”