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Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: An Activity Approach, 7/e

Albert B. Bennett, Jr., University of New Hampshire
Laurie J. Burton, Western Oregon University
L. Ted Nelson, Portland State University

ISBN: 0073053708
Copyright year: 2007

About the Authors




It was at the University of Michigan that Albert Bennett and L. Ted Nelson and their families first met. Bennett and Nelson had been invited to participate in a National Science Foundation sponsored program of graduate studies in mathematics. Ten years later, while on sabbaticals at the University of Oregon, they collaborated in writing lessons to actively involve prospective teachers in learning the mathematical concepts they would be teaching. These lessons eventually led to the publication of the first editions of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach and Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: An Activity Approach.

In 2004, Bennett and Nelson expanded their team, inviting Laurie Burton to be a co-author of the seventh edition of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: An Activity Approach.

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Albert Bennett completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Maine in Orono. He taught mathematics at Gorham State College and became active in the summer mathematics institutes that were sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England. An early bias that was reflected in his teaching of these institutes was the need to encourage intuition in the teaching and learning of mathematics. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1966 and joined the mathematics faculty at the University of New Hampshire to teach mathematics to prospective teachers. There he organized a mathematics lab and started writing laboratory activities for teachers. In the next few years his efforts led to the publication of Fraction Bars, Decimal Squares, and articles and textbooks for elementary and middle school teachers. These publications support methods of using models and concrete materials in the teaching of mathematics.

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Ted Nelson is a professor emeritus of mathematics and education at Portland State University. He taught junior and senior high school mathematics after graduating from St. Cloud State University. He then continued mathematical studies at Bowdoin College and the University of Michigan, where he received his doctorate in 1968. After serving four years as the first mathematics department chair at Southwest Minnesota State University, he moved to Oregon to follow his interest in teaching mathematics to teachers.

Currently, his main goal is to continue development of three lab-based courses for prospective elementary teachers and eight additional lab-based courses for middle school teachers. His teaching and curriculum efforts led to a faculty achievement award for outstanding university teaching in 1988. Over the past fifteen years he has written curriculum materials and given workshops designed to bring more concrete materials, visual models, and problem solving investigations into the elementary and middle school mathematics curriculums.

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Laurie Burton is an associate professor at Western Oregon University. She completed her masters and doctorate degrees in mathematics at the University of Oregon in Eugene (1991 and 1995). After teaching mathematics for four years at Central Washington University, she moved back to Oregon to pursue her interests in teacher education. She has worked extensively on improving courses for prospective and in-service elementary and middle school teachers by teaching, designing and publishing curricula that focus on an active, conceptual, visual, and hands-on perspective in the classroom. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for an active approach to mathematics and frequently leads workshops at prospective and in-service teacher conferences. As an active leader in the mathematics education community she publishes regularly in the Oregon Council of Teachers journal, serves on the national Mathematical Association of America’s Committee on the Mathematical Education of Teachers, and served as the Oregon Teachers of Teachers of Mathematics president in 2005.
Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach

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