Mathematics Education - Mathematics Educators

Mathematics Educators

The following are some of the people who have had a significant influence on the teaching of mathematics at various periods in history:

• Euclid (fl. 300 BC), Ancient Greek, author of The Elements
• Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (1876–1964), Dutch/Russian mathematician who advocated the use of visual aids and examples for introductory courses in geometry for high school students
• Robert Lee Moore (1882–1974), American mathematician, originator of the Moore method
• George Pólya (1887–1985), Hungarian mathematician, author of How to Solve It
• Georges Cuisenaire (1891–1976), Belgian primary school teacher who invented Cuisenaire rods
• William Brownell (1895–1977), American educator who led the movement to make mathematics meaningful to children, often considered the beginning of modern mathematics education
• Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990), Dutch mathematician who had a profound impact on Dutch education and founded the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in 1971
• Toru Kumon (1914–1995), Japanese, originator of the Kumon method, based on mastery through exercise
• Pierre van Hiele and Dina van Hiele-Geldof, Dutch educators (1930s - 1950s) who proposed a theory of how children learn geometry (1957), which eventually became very influential worldwide
• Robert Parris Moses (1935-), founder of the nationwide US Algebra project
• Robert & Ellen Kaplan (about 1930/40s-), authors of Nothing That Is, The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics, and Chances Are: Adventures in Probability (by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan).
• Robert M. Gagné (1958-1980s), pioneer in mathematics education research.