Barry BergmanBarry has enjoyed teaching mathematics to a wide variety of students over the years. Hebegan in the fi eld of adult basic education and moved into the teaching of high schoolmathematics in 1977. He taught high school math for 11 years, at which pointhe servedas a K-12 mathematics specialist for his county. This work allowed him the opportunity tohelp promote the emerging NCTM standards in his region.

In 1990, Barry began the next portion of his career, having been hired to teach at ClackamasCommunity College. He maintains a strong interest in the appropriate use of technologyand visual models in the learning of mathematics.

Throughout the past 32 years, Barry has played an active role in professional organizations.As a member of OCTM, he contributed several articles and activities to the group's journal.He has presented at AMATYC, OCTM, NCTM, ORMATYC, and ICTCM conferences. Barryalso served 4 years as an offi cer of ORMATYC and participated on an AMATYC committeeto provide feedback to revisions of NCTM's standards. Read More Read Less