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Cindy Carter
Cindy Carter studied mathematics and psychology at Brandeis and Harvard and is currently a math specialist for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers. She loves the study of mathematics as well as helping others to come to understand and love mathematics. Teaching has always been an important part of her work. Carter has taught children in grades K–6, undergraduates at Harvard, business clients, and both teachers and specialists in schools. For Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, she designs and runs in-service professional development for teachers implementing the Think Math! curriculum. Starting as a young elementary school student herself, she would help her fellow students with mathematics. Her experience over the years is that everyone, given the right instruction and the right materials, can learn mathematics.
Paul Goldenberg
Dr. Goldenberg has over forty years of experience in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary teaching, teacher education, teacher enhancement, and education research and has, throughout, focused heavily on developing students’ and teachers’ mathematical curiosity along with their ideas, skills, and understanding. He is widely published and has conducted workshops and seminars on a variety of topics in mathematics education, often focusing on the beautiful surprises that mathematics holds, and the creative element of problem-posing in deep mathematics.
He holds the rank of Distinguished Scholar at Education Development Center, Inc., and has been the Principal Investigator on many NSF-funded materials development projects including: Think Math!, a comprehensive K–5 mathematics program that supports teachers’ professional development while they teach by building their interest in and curiosity about mathematics; materials for secondary teacher professional development; a web-accessible, searchable resource of problem sets “with a point” for secondary level mathematics; and an innovative high-school geometry curriculum. He has also directed research on learning with technologies including geometry software, graphing software, and programming; research on college students’ learning of linear algebra; and research on the principles for developing curriculum materials (for students) that promote the professional development of teachers. He has studied mathematics, psychology, and education at Brandeis and Harvard, and has spent nearly two decades in classroom teaching—from his own second grade self-contained classroom through high school and university.
Deb Rosenfeld
Deb Rosenfeld is a research associate at Education Development Center, Inc. Over her four years at EDC, Rosenfeld has served as a writer on the NSF-funded Think Math! elementary curriculum, has coordinated professional development programs for the Focus on Mathematics math-science partnership, and has helped to develop and implement professional development programs around the Think Math curriculum. Prior to coming to EDC, Rosenfeld was a first grade teaching intern at the Hong Kong International School, and taught fourth and eighth grade algebra at a private school outside of Boston. She received an A.B. in psychology from Harvard University in 2002, an M.Ed. in human development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2007, and currently is pursuing a Ph.D. in human development and mathematics education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Shannon Sauder
Shannon Sauder has experience teaching prekindergarten to grade five and currently teaches first and second grade at the Cunniff Elementary School in Watertown, Massachusetts. She holds two bachelor’s degrees from Elmira College, one in elementary education and the other in social studies with a minor in spanish. She also holds a masters degree from Lesley University in curriculum and instruction with a focus in literacy. Shannon co-leads the Math Task Force in Watertown, is the district lead K–5 mathematics teacher, and has served as her school’s MCAS tutor coordinator. Over the past four years she has taught Think Math! at the first and second grade levels. She worked closely with the developers during the pilot phase of Think Math! Sauder also has trained and coached teachers in her district on the planning, implementation, and pacing of Think Math! for their classrooms. She believes that Think Math! provides every student with a fun and engaging context to learn and explore math, making all students successful math learners.