Deborah Hughes Hallett

Deborah J. Hughes Hallett is a mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona. Her expertise is in the undergraduate teaching of mathematics.[1] She has also taught as Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics at Harvard University,[2] and continues to hold an affiliation with Harvard as Adjunct Professor of Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.[3]

Education and career

Hughes Hallett earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1966, and a master's degree from Harvard in 1976. She worked as a preceptor and senior preceptor at Harvard from 1975 to 1991, as an instructor at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey from 1981 to 1984, and as a faculty member at Harvard from 1986 to 1998. She served as Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics at Harvard from 1991 to 1998. She moved to Arizona in 1998, and took on her adjunct position at the Kennedy School in 2001.[4]

Work on calculus reform

With Andrew M. Gleason at Harvard she was a founder of the Calculus Consortium, a project for the reform of undergraduate teaching in calculus. Through the consortium, she is an author of a successful and influential sequence of high school and college mathematics textbooks. However, the project has also been criticized for omitting topics such as the mean value theorem,[5] and for its perceived lack of mathematical rigor.[6][7][8]

Recognition

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1994.[9] She won the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1998.[10] She is a two-time winner of the ICTCM Award, in 1998 for her internet-based course "Information, Data and Decisions" and in 2000 for "Computer Texts for Business Mathematics".[11]

References
  1. "Deborah J Hughes Hallett", Mathematics People, The University of Arizona, retrieved 2015-10-05.
  2. Schaffer, Sarah J. (May 6, 1994), "Popular Math Ar Professor Will Return: Hughes Hallett Rejects Arizona Offer Despite Harvard Curricular Controversy", The Harvard Crimson.
  3. Faculty Profile: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Harvard Kennedy School, retrieved 2015-10-05.
  4. Biographical sketch: Deborah Hughes Hallett, retrieved 2015-10-05.
  5. Lock, Patti Frazer (1994), "Reflections on the Harvard calculus approach", PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, 4 (3): 229–234, doi:10.1080/10511979408965753.
  6. Wu, H. (1997), "The Mathematics Education Reform: Why You Should be Concerned and What You Can Do", American Mathematical Monthly, 104 (10): 946–954, doi:10.2307/2974477, JSTOR 2974477.
  7. Mac Lane, Saunders (1997), "On the Harvard Consortium Calculus" (PDF), Letters to the Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 44 (8): 893.
  8. Klein, David; Rosen, Jerry (1997), "Calculus Reform—For the $Millions" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 44 (10): 1324–1325.
  9. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2015-10-01.
  10. 8th Louise Hay Award, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2015-10-05.
  11. "ICTCM Awards", 23rd Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, retrieved 2015-10-05.
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