Dr. Liping Ma

Liping Ma is an independent scholar in math education. Her teaching career started as a teenager in rural China. During her seven years as an elementary teacher she taught all five grades of elementary school. Later she became the principal of the school. She received a Masters degree in education from East China Normal University. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University. As a McDonnell post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley she revised her Ph.D. dissertation into the book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics.

Dr. Carol Malloy

Carol Malloy, Ph.D., is an associate professor in mathematics education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches pre-service methods and mathematics courses and graduate foundations courses. Carol has taught mathematics for 20 years in high schools across the United States. Her scholarly interests focus on equity in education and reform. She is responsive to concerns that many students have difficulty learning mathematics and, specifically, that African-American, Latino and Native American students often lack opportunities to learn quality mathematics and gain necessary skills to perform and understand rigorous mathematics. As a result, she works in local, regional and national professional organizations for equitable opportunity and quality in education, with emphasis in mathematics.

Dr. Bill McCallum

William McCallum received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, under the supervision of Barry Mazur. In 1989 he joined the Harvard calculus consortium, and is the lead author of the consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts. He is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, chair of the AMS Committee on Education and of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. He continues an active program of research in number theory while directing the newly formed Institute for Mathematics and Education, which aims to improve mathematics education through collaboration between mathematicians, educators, and teachers.