![In a WGBH video Robert Chaney, award-winning Sinclair Community College math professor, (on the right) teaches algebra with the SAM vehicle that he and Fred Thomas developed with ATE grant support.](local/data/caches/images/scaled/img_00019101_300x300.jpg)
Discoveries that Robert A. Chaney, the 2013 Outstanding Community College Professor of the Year, made as an Advanced Technological Education principal investigator influence his teaching.
In November, the Sinclair Community College math professor received the national award for outstanding pedagogy from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. (View his acceptance speech at the award ceremony. See Chaney teach in Modules 3 and 5 of WGBH’s Getting Results.)
Chaney's pedagogy involves students using the math machines that he and Sinclair colleague Fred Thomas, now retired from the college's physics department, developed with the support of several ATE grants from the National Science Foundation. Details about their development of math machines and formation of a non-profit corporation to continue their innovative work are the subject of the February 10 ATE@20 blog.