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About Membership | Events | Awards, Grants, & Scholarships | Conferences | The MathMate | Exhibits & Advertising |
Glenna Tabor is recognized nationally as a groundbreaking educational theorist, practitioner, and the developer of the most effective format for implementing the essential components of differentiated, small group instruction within the classroom, Tabor Rotation.
She works weekly with teachers, administrators, and in classrooms across the country, helping them to fully implement mathematics using the same small group techniques that are long recognized as effective in literacy.
Glenna began her career as a resource teacher, media specialist, and a classroom teacher. She has served as an adjunct member at Regent University, an ASCD Professional Development Institute staff trainer, and as a mathematics consultant for Insight.
Being a powerful change agent in education for over two decades, her innovative classroom techniques have been reported in the Reader's Digest and The Washington Post. She is the managing director of Glenn Tabor Consulting, a private company which provides unique training seminars, online webinars, on-site workshops, and professional development to schools across the country.
Glenna has just released the Tabor Rotation Training Series on DVD for both Elementary and Secondary classrooms. Glenna's website is www.glennatabor.com.
Sponsored by Holt McDougal Publishing
Edward Burger is Professor of Mathematics and Lissack Professor for Social Responsibility and Personal Ethics at Williams College and he has been appointed as Vice Provost for Strategic Educational Initiatives at Baylor University for one-year beginning July 2011. He is an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and Math Horizons magazines and serves as a Trustee of the Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He appeared on a mathematics segment for NBC-TV on the Today Show and throughout the 2010 Winter Olympic coverage. His research interests include algebraic number theory, Diophantine analysis, geometry of numbers, and the theory of continued fractions. He teaches abstract algebra, the art of creating mathematics, and Diophantine analysis. Dr. Burger is the author of many research articles, books, and video series.
Dr. Burger was named the winner of the 2010 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching; the most prestigious prize in higher education teaching and scholarship across all disciplines in the English speaking world. Most recently, Dr. Burger was awarded an endowed chair by the President and Trustees of Williams College.
Dr. Burger is co-author of Holt McDougal Mathematics and Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2.
He earned his B.A. Summa Cum Laude with distinction in mathematics from Connecticut College and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Burger did post-doctoral work at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Candice Brucke has taught middle school 20+ years, including 13 years as a middle grades math teacher. Candice is also an accomplished author. Her published books include: Crossing Carolina, a collection of Poetry and Short Stories, Night-Night Town, and Wrappers Wanted: A Mathematical Adventure in Surface Area and an unpublished book – Math of a Princess. Her article Connecting Literature with Mathematics Activities Involving Adolescent Literature in Middle Grades Math Class was published in the SCMSA 2010 Journal. Candice has spoken at past SCCTM Conferences; she presents at national and state conferences on integrating math lessons and children’s literature.
Needing more math-based literature to use in her classroom, Candice began writing her own stories on concepts that were geared more for middle level students. Math activities she has written for Wrappers Wanted: A Mathematical Adventure in Surface Area address learning styles, learning preferences, and can be tiered to meet learning differences. She presents this book, along with Math of a Princess at conferences throughout South Carolina.
Notable quotes from Candice's SCMSA article include "Mathematics is its own language... Being able to communicate in math means students can listen, read, write, and talk about mathematics. Math textbooks typically have more concepts per paragraph than other types of textbooks... For students to communicate mathematically, literacy instruction must be an integral part of the math classroom."
Wrappers Wanted: A Mathematical Adventure in Surface Area is a Christmastime adventure where Santa's elves work to "go green" and eliminate paper waste using math to calculate surface area.
Candice Brucke lives in Westminster, South Carolina. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina moving to Jacksonville, Florida as a baby, she came to Oconee County, South Carolina at the age of 10. She has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Newberry College and a Master of Education from Southern Wesleyan University. She is a former Oconee County District Teacher of the Year and a past SC Middle School Magic Award winner and currently serves as Assistant Principal for Instruction at Tamassee-Salem Middle/High School (grades 6-12).
Carol Crane loves looking through the kaleidoscope of the past and present. She is a historian and has always been a journal writer. She loves to stop and read historical markers and has taken writing and visual journeys through many states. Carol enjoys imagining her Swedish ancestors coming to this country on the Kalmar Nyckel, building log cabins and starting the first Swedish church in Wilmington, Delaware.
Carol writes about the flora and fauna, geography, history, state symbols and the notables who are our heroes and patriots of this great country. Using information in the state books, she transports kids around the state. Her greatest joy is to have a child say, "Wow! I didn't know that."
With forty years experience in children's literature as an educational consultant, she has become widely recognized by many schools and educators around the country for her expertise in children's literature. She speaks at reading conventions and schools, networking with children and educators on the fabric that makes up the quilt of our country. Engaging children and adults to look beyond the obvious to utilize what they see, feel, and hear is the focal point of Carol's speeches. She has conducted in-service seminars for teachers at many schools across the country. Carol also works with children as an author. At a recent reading conference at University of Alabama, she was described as, "A walking, talking bibliography of children's books."
She is author of fourteen books with Sleeping Bear Press. Her alphabet books P is for Palmetto, S is for Sunshine, P is for Peach, T is for Tar Heel, F is for the First State, L is for Lone Star, and L is for the Last Frontier have continued in number books Net Numbers – SC, A Peck of Peaches – Georgia, Wright Numbers – NC and others. Her new narrative Hankerchief Quilt and The Christmas Tree Ship can be immersed into a math curriculum.
Ten years ago, Carol instituted a summer reading program. Teachers, media specialists and librarians have attended her "Bed, Breakfast and Books" seminars across the country. The assembling of attending authors, pre-publications of children's book, and sharing of ideas among fellow teachers has been a very important reading event. Carol lives in Holly Springs, NC. She has two South Carolina books, Net Numbers and P is for Palmetto and the newly released (2010) Little South Carolina book. Additional information may be found on her website www.carolcrane.org.
Sponsored by McGraw-Hill
David Schwartz, author of over 50 popular math and science books for children, will speak at SCCTM's Fall Conference in October, 2011. David has been writing books that make math come alive since 1985 when his groundbreaking book How Much Is a Million? was published to wide acclaim. Many of his more recent titles have also won awards and have become staples of elementary and middle school math classrooms by supporting the curriculum in entertaining and enlightening ways.
David now lives in California but he travels the USA and the world to share his passions for math and writing with young audiences. His engaging props, his talent for storytelling and his delightful sense of humor inspire children to think, laugh and learn at the same time. They (and their teachers) find they can actually enjoy math and see its relevance to their lives.
David loves to hear about ways that parents use math with their children at home and on family outings. David calls these "Math Moments". He collects stories and photographs of families enjoying math and writes about them in his regular Math Moments™ column, published on his website and on other education and parenting websites. Math Moments™ will encourage you to find the math in everyday family activities — sports, shopping, hobbies, cooking, travel, games, gardening, art, outings (including zoos, museums, aquariums, parks) and more. David welcomes contributions to Math Moments™.
David has a few days available for school visits during the last week of October, in conjunction with his appearance at the South Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference on October 28th. For more information check out David's website www.davidschwartz.com or email him at david@davidschwartz.com.