Fourth Annual TEAM-Math Partnership Conference
Biographical Sketches of Keynote Speakers

Dr. Randy Philipp is professor of mathematics education in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University and a member of CRMSE, SDSU's Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education. He has been a secondary school mathematics teacher in Los Angeles, California, and in Liberia, West Africa. He has written research articles and chapters, coauthored a research monograph, and has also written for practitioners. In January 2006, he became the first recipient of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educator's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
 
Dr. Glenda Lappan is the University Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, and Division of Science and Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. She has served as a program director at the National Science Foundation. Her research and development interests are in the connected areas of students' learning of mathematics and mathematics teacher professional growth and change at the middle and secondary school levels. She has published more than a hundred scholarly papers and numerous books for middle grades students and teachers.
 

Denise Mewborn is a former elementary school teacher and is currently a Professor of Mathematics Education and department head at the University of Georgia. Her teaching and research are systematically integrated around a theme of preservice elementary mathematics teacher education. Other areas of interest include open-ended assessment and statistics education. She served on the writing team for the recently-released Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education, published by the American Statistical Association. In her spare time, she serves on her local board of education.

 

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