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Ted Sundstrom
Professor of Mathematics
Grand Valley State University

Experienced in undergraduate curriculum development and integrating the use of technology, problem solving strategies, history, and writing in the following areas of undergraduate mathematics: calculus, linear algebra, abstract algebra, number theory, communicating in mathematics, general education mathematics, and precalculus mathematics.

Publications

· Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof, Second Edition – a text for MTH 210 – Communicating in Mathematics, copyright 2007, 2003, Pearson Eduction, Inc.

· Instructor’s Manual for Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof, Second Edition, copyright 2007, 2003, Pearson Education, Inc.

· Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof, a text for MTH 210 – Communicating in Mathematics, copyright 2003, Pearson Eduction, Inc.

· Instructor’s Manual for Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof, copyright 2003, Pearson Education, Inc.

· Exploring Calculus with a Graphing Calculator, co-authored with Charlene Beckmann, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., copyright 1992.

· Graphing Calculator Laboratory Manual for Calculus, co-authored with Charlene Beckmann, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., copyright 1990.

· Mathematics of Finance, Second Edition, a seventy-five page supplement for a college algebra course, published at Grand Valley State University, 1990, 1998.

· Student Assessment for a Technology Based Calculus I Course, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., copyright 1990.

· "Using a Calculator to Check Solutions of Quadratic Equations", The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 77, No. 4; April, 1984.

· "Groups of Automorphisms of Simple Rings", Journal of Algebra, Vol. 29, No. 3; June, 1974.

Professional Employment

Grand Valley State University

1988-present	Professor of Mathematics
1980 - 1988	Associate Professor of Mathematics
1975 - 1980	Assistant Professor of Mathematics
1973 - 1975	Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics

Courses taught at Grand Valley State University:
Entire precalculus sequence, calculus sequence, linear algebra, communicating in mathematics, abstract algebra, number theory, modern algebra and calculus for masters in education students, calculus for MBA students.

Education

• University of Massachusetts

Ph.D. (Mathematics) May, 1973
Dissertation: Groups of Automorphisms of Simple Rings
Dissertation Director: Prof. Wallace S. Martindale, III

M.A. (Mathematics) May, 1970

• Western Michigan University

B.A. (Summa cum laude) May 1968
Major: Mathematics
Minor: Physics