He will receive the award during the NCTM’s 81st annual meeting April 9-12 in San Antonio, Texas, before some 18,000 fellow mathematics educators.

 “Jeremy is well known around the globe as well as in the U.S.,” said Pat Wilson, professor and department head of mathematics education. “We are grateful for his service and very pleased that he is being recognized for his distinguished service in mathematics education. He certainly represents our college and university well.”

Last fall, Kilpatrick became the first UGA faculty member ever named as a National Associate by the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Associate designation is a lifetime title to recognize people who have contributed pro bono service on committees of the National Academies, a group comprising the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council the National Academies and the Institute of Medicine.

Two years ago, Kilpatrick chaired a National Research Council committee which studied how to improve children’s learning of mathematics that garnered national attention. The report, titled Taking it Through: Cross-National Conversation About Secondary Mathematics Curriculum, recommended a major overhaul of mathematics instruction, curricula and assessment in the nation’s schools.

Kilpatrick’s contributions have included serving as chair of the Mathematics Learning Study, a member of the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education, chair of the Study Group on Guidelines for Mathematics Assessment, and charter member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board.

Kilpatrick is the College of Education’s second faculty member to receive the NCTM’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Mathematics education colleague James Wilson, preceded him in that honor in 2001.

Kilpatrick and Wilson, are currently co-principal investigators in a $10.3 million project funded last fall by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a national Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics.  Professor and department head, Pat Wilson, is the principal investigator and director of the project.

Before joining the faculty at UGA in 1975, Kilpatrick taught at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds an A.B. and a M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He was appointed Regents Professor at UGA in 1993.

He has taught courses in mathematics education at several European and Latin American universities and has received Fulbright awards for work in New Zealand, Spain, Colombia and Sweden. He was a charter member of the U.S. Mathematical Sciences Education Board and served two terms as Vice President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction.

His publications include a chapter on the history of research in mathematics education in the 1992 Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning and a co-authored research report on an innovative precalculus course in the 1996 Volume 3 of Bold Ventures: Case Studies of U.S. Innovations in Mathematics Education.

Monday, March 24, 2003
WRITER: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
CONTACT: Jeremy Kilpatrick, 706/542-4163, jkilpat@coe.uga.edu