Gail F. Burrill
OccupationMathematics educator
EmployerMichigan State University
Known for
  • Honorary doctorate by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2000)
  • President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
AwardsPresidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (1985)

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Gail F. Burrill, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  2. ^ a b "Gail Burrill", Program in Mathematics Education, Michigan State University, retrieved 2017-10-10


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