American mathematician
Gail F. Burrill |
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Occupation | Mathematics educator |
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Employer | Michigan State University |
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Known for | - Honorary doctorate by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2000)
- President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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Awards | Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (1985) |
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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]
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