Marion Walter (1928–2021)
Autor(a) de The Magic Mirror Book
Obras por Marion Walter
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1928-07-30
- Data de falecimento
- 2021-05-09
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Berlin, Germany
- Local de falecimento
- Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Harvard University Graduate School of Education (EdD)
New York University (MA)
Hunter College (BA)
Institute of Numerical Analysis, UCLA - Ocupações
- mathematics educator
children's book author
Holocaust survivor
consultant
mathematician - Relações
- Blum, Lenore (student)
Pólya, George (teacher)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Marion Walter was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. Her parents were Erna and Willy Walter, a prosperous merchant. In 1936, with the Nazi regime in power in Germany, she and her older sister Ellen were expelled from their schools. In March 1939, 10-year-old Marion was sent with Ellen on a Kindertransport to the UK. Their parents were able to follow them to England, although after the start of World War II in 1940, their father was interned on the Isle of Man as an "enemy alien." He died there in 1943. Marion and Ellen attended a boarding school in Eastbourne, from which the students were evacuated for fear of German invasion. Marion was sent to a school in Wykey in Shropshire, located in a large country house where the owners bred cocker spaniels and the students slept in dog kennels. She was moved two more times before completing her schooling at age 16; due to a shortage of teachers during wartime, she was asked to stay on to teach math and found she enjoyed it. She attended college for two years before leaving for the USA with her mother and sister in 1948. The family settled in New York City, where Walter attended Hunter College, majoring in mathematics and minoring in education, earning a B.A. in 1950. She then taught at Hunter College High School and George Washington High School. In the summers of 1952 and 1953, Walter studied at the Institute of Numerical Analysis at UCLA on a National Bureau of Standards scholarship. There she met Olga Taussky-Todd, who became her mentor and encouraged her to complete her master's degree in mathematics at New York University. In 1956, Walter joined the faculty of Simmons College in Boston, where she founded the college's mathematics department and its math major. She stepped down as department chair after four years, but continued to teach until 1965, when she left to obtain a doctorate in education at Harvard. Dr. Walter also was a math consultant to the project that became Sesame Street on public television. In 1977, she joined the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she remained until her retirement in 1994. There she focused on preparing prospective elementary school teachers to teach math, using the discovery approach and hands-on/experiment methods. Her aim was always to make learning fun for children. Walter wrote some 40 journal articles and gave nearly 100 workshops and talks in the USA, Canada, England, Europe, and Israel. Marion Walter's Theorem was named for her in 1993. Walter and her fellow Harvard student Stephen I. Brown worked together for many years, writing The Art of Problem Posing, first published in 1983, and The Magic Mirror Book, which taught children about symmetry.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Membros
- 215
- Popularidade
- #103,625
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 12
This is a nice book from Tarquin, with a little educational bit in the back. Not too sophisticated, but fun.