Fred Peskoff
Professor
Chairperson
Mathematics
EMAIL: fpeskoff@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: N-599N
Office Hours:
Phone: +1 (212) 220-1353
Fred Peskoff, BMCC Mathematics Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department, created The Leila and Simon Peskoff Family Endowment in honor of his parents in 2001. This endowment awards tuition scholarships, graduation awards and research stipends to students who are often the first in their families to attend college, and might otherwise not have continued with their studies. Dr. Peskoff also made possible, through a generous gift to BMCC in 2015, the naming of The Leila and Simon Peskoff Nursing Skills Laboratory on BMCC’s main campus.
Dr. Peskoff is a Foundation Board member of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), and was a 2003 winner of the AMATYC Teaching Excellence Award, a national honor. In 2016, his donation established The Peskoff Award to be presented annually to an AMATYC Project ACCCESS fellow who has contributed to the profession of mathematics instruction and taught students in their first two years of college.
In addition to his master’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics education, Dr. Peskoff holds a master’s degree in psychology, which helps inform his insights into student math anxiety. In a 2007 article by Elizabeth Farrell,”Taking Anxiety Out of the Equation” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dr. Peskoff is quoted as saying, “as professors, we have to be aware of the issues that impact student learning. We can’t just know the content of math. We need to know more about how students learn.”
Expertise
Mathematics Study Skills, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Anxiety
Degrees
- M.A. Brooklyn College, Psychology,1988
- M.S. Columbia University, Teachers College, Mathematics Education,1996
- Ed.D. Columbia University, Teachers College, Mathematics Education,1997
Courses Taught
- This course is the second algebra course offered at the college. It is open to students who have completed elementary algebra or its equivalent. It includes such topics as: factoring, solutions of linear and quadratic equations, trigonometric relationships, exponents, logarithms, and the graphs of quadratic equations.
Students who passed MAT 12, MAT 14, MAT 41, MAT 51, MAT 56, MAT 160, MAT 161, MAT 56.5, MAT 150.5 cannot take MAT 161.5.
Course Syllabus - This course covers computations and measurements essential in the health science professional fields with an emphasis on nursing. Topics include units and systems of measurement, reconstitution of powdered medications, oral and parenteral dosage calculations, adult and pediatric dosage calculations based on body weight, intravenous calculations, and pediatric medication calculations. Students who passed MAT 104.5 cannot take MAT 104 course. Students who passed MAT 104 course cannot take MAT 104.5 course.
Prerequisites: MAT 12, MAT 14, MAT 41, MAT 51 or MAT 161.5
Course Syllabus - This is an integrated course in analytic geometry and calculus, applied to functions of a single variable. It covers a study of rectangular coordinates in the plane, equations of conic sections, functions, limits, continuity, related rates, differentiation of algebraic and transcendental functions, Rolle's Theorem, the Mean Value Theorem, maxima and minima, and integration.
Prerequisite: MAT 206 or MAT 206.5
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Research and Projects
Publications
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
- American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC) Teaching Excellence Award (2003)
