He received an Apple for the Teacher award in recognition of his bringing excellence to the learning environment at South Campus.
He has also taught statistics for Penn State University at the Greater Allegheny (McKeesport) Campus and at the Monroeville Center.
He received his master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.
In addition to Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach (Eighth Edition 2012) and Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version (Fifth Edition 2010), Al is a co-author on a liberal arts mathematics text published by McGraw-Hill, Math in Our World (2nd Edition 2011).
Al also the author of for mathematics books in the McGraw-Hill DeMystified Series.
They are Pre-Algebra, Math Word Problems, Business Math, and Probability.
Al Bluman is married and has two sons and a granddaughter.