The College Board has appointed Pacific University Mathematics Professor Michael Boardman
to serve as the Advanced Placement (AP) Chief Faculty Consultant, also known as Chief Reader.
![Michael Boardman](https://www.pacificu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Michael%20Boardman.png?itok=c7qhSdKv)
Michael Boardman, PhD
Course Information
At Pacific University, all faculty teach a variety of different courses. Typically, we do not use graduate teaching assistants, which means that your classes will be taught by professors and that you will have plenty of opportunities to get to know the faculty in your discipline.
I have taught nearly all the courses in mathematics.
Education
PhD Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., 1992
MS, Mathematics, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash., 1987
BS, Mathematics, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash., 1985
Recent Senior Projects Supervised
Grace Tolberd: Proofs Without Words and Student Use of Visual Representations in Proof
Randall Klagge: Mathematics of Segregation Measures
Shi Wen Wong: RSA Cryptography, Large Primes, and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
Jordan Zweifel: A Stochastic Model of Volleyball Scoring
Alyssa Watson: Graph Pebbling
Justin Hurworth: A Comprehensive Model of Radiation Therapy for Cancer: An Application of the Linear-Quadratic Model of Cell Survival
Blake Tobler & Ilana Freeman: The Mathematics of Redistricting
Prescott Devinney: System Dynamics Model of Schistosomiasis: Comparing Holistic Interventions to Piecemeal
Qianru Wang: Dellanoy Numbers is Dimension higher than 2
Emily Barry: Voting Rank Methods and the Borda Count
Emma Winkel: Pi: Its History, Properties and Introduction in the Middle School Classroom
Bridget Daly: Use & Misuse of Regression for Chemical Analysis
David Carr: A Mathematical Model of Student Debt
Spencer Chalndler: Patterns in the (a,b) Pascal's Triangle Modulo a Prime
Jeff Mintz: Synthetic Wavefront Reconstruction
Scott Perez: Chop it up: An overview of Dissections
Taylor Matyasz: Counting Minomal Solutions to Diophantine Inequalities
Evan Cooper: College Football Ranking Systems: Improvements of Two Models
Travis White: The Mathematics of Juggling
Recent Professional and Professional Service Activity
Textbook Co-Author
- Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic Sixth Edition, AP Edition.
- College Calculus, a text for students with AB AP-Calculus background
AP-Precalculus
Chief Reader, 2022-Present. AP Precalculus is the College Board's newest AP mathematics course.
AP-Calculus
- College Board Endorsed Workshop Consultant, January 2012 - Present
- Member of the ETS AP-Calculus Workgroup, 2014-2020
- Chief Reader, July 2007-July 2011
- Chief Reader Designate, July 2006-June 2007
- Exam Leader, Question Leader, Table Leader, Reader, June 1994-June 2006
- Moderator, AP-Calculus Electronic Discussion Group, 1996-2006
- Currently Question Leader
Oregon Mathematics Education Council
- President 2006-2007
- Webmaster 2001-2017
- Member 1996-Present
- Principal Investigator and/or Participant on various grants regarding in-service teacher professional development
MAA
- Member, Committee on Professional Development
- Past-Chair, Committee for the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics
- Member Mutual Concerns of the MAA and College Board
- Former Chair of the PNW Section