The Montessori method of education is a system of education for young children that seeks to develop natural interests and activities rather than use formal teaching methods. It was developed by physician Maria Montessori. It emphasizes independence and it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment. It discourages some conventional measures of achievement,such as grades and tests. Montessori developed her theories in the early twentieth century through scientific experimentation with her students;the method has since been used in many parts of the world,in public and private schools alike.
In contemporary education,mathematics education is the practice of teaching and learning mathematics,along with the associated scholarly research.
Dyscalculia,sometimes called dysarithmia,is a disability resulting in difficulty learning or comprehending arithmetic,such as difficulty in understanding numbers,learning how to manipulate numbers,performing mathematical calculations and learning facts in mathematics. It is sometimes informally known as "math dyslexia",though this can be misleading as dyslexia is a different condition from dyscalculia.
Baroness Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.
The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) is one of seventeen colleges and professional schools at the University of Minnesota. CEHD departments are located on both the East Bank and St. Paul campuses.
John A. Pelesko is an American mathematician. He is currently Professor of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware.
Everyday Mathematics is a pre-K and elementary school mathematics curriculum,developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. The program,now published by McGraw-Hill Education,has sparked debate.
Louis Lorenzo Redding was a prominent lawyer and civil rights advocate from Wilmington,Delaware. Redding,the first African American to be admitted to the Delaware bar,was part of the NAACP legal team that challenged school segregation in the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was 96 when he died at a hospital in Lima,Pa.
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff holds the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in the School of Education at the University of Delaware and is also a member of the Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Linguistics and Cognitive Science. An author of 14 books and over 150 professional articles on early childhood and infant development,she founded and directs the Child's Play,Learning,and Development Laboratory,which investigates how young children learn their native language. Among her projects is the creation of a computerized language assessment for preschoolers called the QUILS:Quick Interactive Language Screener. She is also involved with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University and the Brookings Institution and David Dickinson of Vanderbilt University,on a project to teach vocabulary to disadvantaged preschoolers through playful learning. Research on the conceptual underpinnings of language has brought her to the study of event perception in infants and how language itself may influence infants' attention to the events their language encodes.
Jo Boaler is a British education author and Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Mathematics Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Boaler is involved in promoting reform mathematics and equitable mathematics classrooms. She is the co-founder and faculty director of youcubed,a Stanford centre that markets and sells mathematics education resources to teachers,students and parents. She is the author of nine books,including Limitless Mind (2019),Mathematical Mindsets (2016),What's Math Got To Do With It? (2009) and The Elephant in the Classroom (2010),all written for teachers and parents with the goal of improving mathematics education in both the US and UK. Her 1997 book,Experiencing School Mathematics, won the "Outstanding Book of the Year" award for education in Britain.
Dorothy Espelage is an American psychologist. She is the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina,and an international expert in bullying,youth aggression,and teen dating violence. She has authored several books including Bullying in North American Schools,Bullying Prevention and Intervention:Realistic Strategies for Schools,and Handbook of Bullying in Schools:an International Perspective.
Nathalie Michelle Sinclair is a Canadian researcher in mathematics education who holds the Canada Research Chair in Tangible Mathematics Learning at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
Sybilla Beckmann is a 2011 Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia and is a previous recipient of the Association for Women in Mathematics Louise Hay Award.
Lynn Fuchs is an educational psychologist known for research on instructional practice and assessment,reading disabilities,and mathematics disabilities. She is the Dunn Family Chair in Psychoeducational Assessment in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University.
Anne Watson is a British mathematics educator. She is a professor emeritus in the department of education at the University of Oxford,where she was a fellow of Linacre College,Oxford. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Design and Development in Education and of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Elham Kazemi is a mathematics educator and educational psychologist,the Geda and Phil Condit Professor in Math and Science Education in the College of Education of the University of Washington.
Barbara Jean Bestgen Reys is an American mathematics educator known for her research in number sense and mental calculation,for her mathematics textbooks,and for her leadership in developing curriculum standards for elementary school mathematics education. She is Curators Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri,and a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Nancy G. Guerra is an American psychologist. On June 1,2016,Guerra was appointed the dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California,Irvine.
Douglas H. Clements is an American scholar in the field of early mathematics education. Previously a preschool and kindergarten teacher,his research centers on the learning and teaching of early mathematics,computer applications for mathematics teaching,and scaling up successful educational interventions. Clements has contributed to the writing of educational standards including the Common Core State Standards,the NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and the NCTM's 2006 Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics.
Bonnie Helen Litwiller was an American mathematics educator and textbook author,who worked as a professor of mathematics at the University of Northern Iowa.
