Arthur B. Powell
Arthur B. Powell is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, and Associate Director of the Robert B. Davis Institute for Learning of the Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; M.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and PhD in mathematics education from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. He is the co-author with Beatrice Lumpkin of Math: A Rich Heritage (1995); co-author with Marilyn Frankenstein of Ethnomathematics Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education (1997); and co-author with Marcelo A. Bairral of A Escrita e o Pensamento Matemático: Interações e Potencialidades [Writing and Mathematical Thinking: Interactions and Potentialities] (2006). He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Behavior; Boletim GEPEM: O Boletim do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Matemática [The Bulletin of the Study and Research Group in Mathematics Education, published in Brazil]; and BOLEMA: O Boletim de Educação Matemática [BOLEMA: The Bulletin of Mathematics Education, published in Brazil]. He is the past vice president of the International Study Group for Ethnomathematics and co-founder and editor of the Criticalmathematics Educator Newsletter; His current research interests concerns the philosophical and soico-political foundations of ethnomathematics and the use of information and communication technologies to investigate the emergence of students mathematical ideas, heuristics, and reasoning in different cultural contexts.