Mary Fries
Senior Curriculum And Instructional Design Associate
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMary Fries is a senior curriculum and instructional design specialist with over a decade of experience creating equitable, research-backed mathematics and computer science learning materials. At Education Development Center she leads development of the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) Sparks middle- and early-high-school CS curriculum and previously spearheaded the AP CS Principles BJC curriculum in partnership with UC Berkeley. Her work spans classroom resources, teacher professional books, and award-winning educational apps—she co-authored Transition to Algebra, Making Sense of Algebra, and led the SolveMe puzzle apps including SolveMe Mobiles. With a BS in Mathematics, advanced credentials in mathematics education, an MA in Philosophy and Religion, and ongoing PhD work in Physics, she brings rare interdisciplinary depth that informs both pedagogy and curriculum design. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, she combines classroom experience, product development, and teacher professional learning to make rigorous STEM ideas accessible and engaging.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy and Religion, Master of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy and Religion at California Institute of Integral StudiesBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Mary Baldwin CollegePhysics, Physics at University of Massachusetts BostonCertificate of Advanced Graduate Study (C.A.G.S.), Mathematics Education, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (C.A.G.S.), Mathematics Education at Boston University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (33)
visual10
snap10
blocks10
visual-programming-language10
programming-language9
latex9
katex9
visual-programming9
electron7
javascript7
mathematics7
typescript7
typesetting7
github-desktop7
github7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bjc-edc/bjc-r
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
The Beauty and Joy of Computing public resource repository.
Contributions:47 releases, 17 commits, 84 PRs in 1 month
joysnapcomputing
maryfries/mcc
Jan 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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