The Biography of Prof. Dr. Daniel Clark Orey

The Biography of Prof. Dr. Daniel Clark Orey

Daniel Clark Orey, 2007 Senior Fulbright Specialist to Katmandu University is also Coordinator and Principle Investigator of the Algorithm Collection Project at California State University, Sacramento. He is professor of Multicultural and Mathematics Education in the College of Education and an instructor in the Department of Learning Skills at CSUS. Professor Orey is the former Director of Professional Development and the Center for Teaching and Learning at California State University, Sacramento. He earned his doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction in Multicultural Education from the University of New Mexico in 1988. His Mellon-Tinker funded field research took him to Highland Maya Guatemala and to Puebla, Mexico. He is a founding board member, and is Vice President for North America and General Secretary (1995) of the Sociedade Internacional para Estudos da Criança. In 1998, he was a J. William Fulbright Scholar to the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil; and was a Visitor Researcher at Univeridade Federal de Ouro Preto, with grant from CNPq, during the 2005 2006 academic year. Together with his colleague Milton Rosa, he has written three books and numerous articles related to ethnomathematics and mathematical modeling.