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Robert B. Davis (June 23, 1926 – December 21, 1997) was an American mathematician and mathematics educator.[1]

Davis was born in Fall River, Massachusetts.[2] He graduated from MIT with a B.S, M.S, and Ph.D. (1951) in mathematics. He was a professor and researcher at the University of New Hampshire, Syracuse University, the University of Illinois[3] and Rutgers University, where he was named New Jersey Professor of Mathematics Education in 1988.[4][5] He was one of the founders of the Madison Project, a study of mathematics education which spanned 15 years. The project is named for Madison Junior High School in Syracuse, where it began.[6] The project moved to Webster College near St, Louis, Missouri in 1961.[7]

Davis was the founding editor of The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (originally The Journal of Children's Mathematical Behavior), with Herbert Ginsburg in 1971.[1][6][4]

Davis was given the Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award posthumously by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics in 1998.[8]

Selected publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Kaput, James J. (March 1998). "Remembering Bob Davis" (PDF). Focus. Vol. 18, no. 3. Mathematical Association of America. p. 5.
  • ^ Jacques Cattell Press; Dael L. Wolfle, eds. (1976). American Men and Women of Science. Vol. 2 (13 ed.). Bowker. p. 958. ISBN 0835208729.
  • ^ Carolyn A. Maher; Robert Speiser (1998). "Robert Davis: In Memoriam" (PDF). Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal (17).
  • ^ a b Ranzan, David (August 2006). "Guide to the Robert B. Davis Papers, 1957-1997". Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. Rutgers University. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  • ^ Quinn, Laura (September 24, 1988). "Trying to transform the teaching of math". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 15.
  • ^ a b Church, Phil (June 4, 2002). "Robert B. Davis Bio". Syracuse University Department of Mathematics. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  • ^ Angela Lynn Evans Walmsley (2003). A History of the "new Mathematics" Movement and Its Relationship with Current Mathematical Reform. University Press of America. p. 51. ISBN 9780761825128.
  • ^ "Ross Taylor / Glenn Gilbert Gallery of Awardees". National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  • ^ Reviews of Discovery In Mathematics:
  • ^ Reviews of Learning Mathematics:
  • ^ Reviews of Constructivist Views on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics:
    • Dawson, A. J. (Sandy) (October 1991). Educational Studies in Mathematics. 22 (5): 491–501. JSTOR 3482468.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Nattrass, George (September 1991). The Arithmetic Teacher. 39 (1): 49. ProQuest 208771288.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

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