Gail F. Burrill | |
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| Occupation | Mathematics educator |
| Employer | Michigan State University |
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| Awards | Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (1985) |
Gail F. Burrill is a mathematics educator who was president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 1996 to 1998. [1] She works as a specialist in the Program in Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. [2]
Burrill worked for nearly 30 years as a high school mathematics teacher; [2] she is also the author of multiple textbooks, and has pushed to include statistics in the curriculum. [1]
She won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics in 1985, and the lifetime achievement award of the NCTM in 2012. [1] She was also given an honorary doctorate by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2000. In 1994, she was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association. [1]