Dr. Max L. Warshauer
 Dr.
Warshauer received the Presidential Award for Excellence
in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring in
2001. He was the recipient of the Mathematical Association
of America (MAA) Texas Section Distinguished College
or University Teaching of Mathematics Award, 1999; the
Everette Swinney Faculty Senate Teaching Award and university
nominee for Piper Professor in 1996; and received the
SWT Mathematics Department Outstanding Teacher Award
in 1995.
His area of specialization in research is number theory.
He has published articles in the Pacific Journal of
Mathematics, Journal of Number Theory, Journal of Algorithms,
The Arithmetic Teacher, and Journal of Mathematics and
Computer Education. In 1984, he received the Presidential
Seminar Award at SWT honoring his work "The Witt
Ring of Degree-k Inner Product Spaces" published
by Springer-Verlag.
Dr. Warshauer began the Math Project in the San Marcos
Public Schools from 1984-1988. This program was designed
to prepare young students for algebra. He founded the
SWT Honors Summer Math Camp (HSMC) in 1990, and has
taught the number theory course each summer.
He began the SWT Math Camp Endowment in 1991 to permanently
support this program. Dr. Warshauer extended the program
to include younger students in 1996 by founding the
SWT Junior Summer Math Camp (JSMC). He developed this
into a replicable model and included teacher training
in 1997, and founded the Math Institute for Talented
Youth (MITY) to coordinate all the programs. He began
two magazines for young students, Math Reader (grades
3-5), and Math Explorer (grades 6-8) in 1998. Other
grants obtained to support this program include private
sources such as RGK Foundation (which helped begin the
program initially), National Instruments (which sponsors
students to attend the HSMC each summer), Rockwell Fund
Inc., SBC Foundation which helped develop the Rio Grande
Valley initiative, and the Educational Advancement Foundation.
In 2001, Dr. Warshauer changed MITY's name to SWT Mathworks,
stressing the expanded mission of this institute in
making math work for all students as well as teachers.
Mathworks programs are being replicated in schools throughout
Texas. Dr. Warshauer testified about the importance
of the Governor's Math Initiative at both the Texas
House and Senate hearings, and how it was critically
important to develop programs that reach out to and
include students from all backgrounds. SWT Mathworks
was recognized by Governor Perry as one of five programs
in Texas to receive the first annual Texas Higher Education
Star Award for Closing the Gaps. |
