GREG LANGKAMP
Division of Science and Mathematics
Seattle Central Community College
1701 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122

(206) 587-3810
GLangkamp@sccd.ctc.edu

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Greg Langkamp is a math educator at Seattle Central Community College with teaching experience ranging from elementary algebra to vector
calculus. Throughout these courses his teaching strategies center around active learning environments which make frequent use of group discussion, technology and manipulatives.

Over the past 5 years Professor Langkamp has established and team-taught a course entitled Six Billion People and Counting, an interdisciplinary project linking math for liberal art majors with environmental science. He has written a companion set of notes for this course on Difference Equations under a curriculum development grant from the Seattle Community College District. He continues to develop data driven problems and projects for this course.

In July 2000, as an outgrowth of this interdisciplinary course, Professor Langkamp and his colleague Dr. Joe Hull were awarded an NSF curriculum development grant (#9980740) to establish the Quantitative Environmental Learning Project (QELP). The goal of this project is to develop integrated course materials that assist faculty in establishing interdisciplinary math and science courses in community and 4-year colleges.

In the early 1990's Professor Langkamp helped pilot the reform of intermediate algebra at Seattle Central. This course, now mainstream at the college, develops algebra skills through the investigation of functions as models. He co-authored with fellow faculty the resource book titled Collaborative Explorations for Algebra.

Other activities include volunteering in 1996 with the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project to collect and analyze glacier mass balance data, and developing Maple computer exercises for multivariable calculus. Professor Langkamp actively participates in the Washington Center Mathematics Consortium and continues to work in mathematics reform throughout all freshman and sophomore level courses.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Seattle Central Community College, 1989 to present

Mathematics Department faculty member. Responsibilities include teaching beginning algebra through vector calculus, differential equations and linear algebra. Has taught interdisciplinary courses on the history and philosophy of science, mathematics and economics, and mathematics and environmental science.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

* University of Washington, M.S. Mathematics 1989. Specialty: Optimization. Graduate Thesis Advisor: Dr. James Burke.
* Purdue University, B.S. Mathematics 1985

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