Sybilla Beckmann
Kazez
(Professionally, I go by "Sybilla Beckmann")
Mail: Sybilla Beckmann
Department of Mathematics
Boyd Graduate Studies Building
University of Georgia,
Athens, GA 30602.
Phone: (706)-542-2548
Fax: (706)-542-2573
Electronic mail: sybilla at math dot uga dot edu
I'm a Professor of Mathematics at
the University of Georgia
My research interests are in the Mathematical Education of Teachers, Arithmetic
Geometry/Algebraic Number Theortry, Tilings of the Plane, and Mathematics
Education in general.
Short biography: Sybilla Beckmann is Professor of Mathematics
at the University of Georgia. She has a PhD in mathematics from the University
of Pennsylvania and taught at Yale University as a J. W. Gibbs Instructor
of Mathematics. Beckmann has done research in Arithmetic Geometry, but her
current main interest is the mathematical education of teachers -- an interest
that emerged when she had children. Beckmann developed three mathematics content
courses for prospective elementary school teachers at the University of Georgia
and wrote a book for such courses, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers,
published by Addison-Wesley, now in a second edition. She is especially interested
in helping college faculty learn to teach mathematics content courses for
elementary and middle grades teachers and she works with graduate students
and postdoctoral fellows toward that end. Beckmann was a member of the writing
team of NCTM’s Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8
Mathematics and has worked on the development of several state mathematics
standards. Recently, Beckmann taught an average 6th grade mathematics class
every day at a local public school in order to better understand school mathematics
teaching. Beckmann is a member of Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics
of the National Research Council.
Teaching: MATH 5003 Spring 08, MATH 5030 Spring 08, EMAT 9700 Spring 08. Webpages of current and past courses
Some recent books, projects, and papers:
