Jeremy Kilpatrick, Regents Professor of mathematics education, was recently recognized by the Georgia State Senate with a resolution honoring him for his many years of contribution to the advancement of mathematics and exemplary efforts to ensure the unequaled quality of instruction received by the young people of the state.
Senate Resolution 436, introduced by last spring by Sens. Brian Kemp, R-46, and Ralph Hudgens, R-47th, acknowledged the “often unheralded yet dramatic influence which professors such as Jeremy Kilpatrick have on the quality of education received by the undergraduate students of this state.” Kemp presented the commendation to Kilpatrick earlier this semester.
Throughout his 46-year career as a teacher and researcher Kilpatrick has been a leader in national and international education.
He was chair of a National Research Council committee whose study of how to improve children’s learning of mathematics gained national attention in 2001. The report resulting from that study, Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics, recommended a major overhaul of mathematics instruction, curricula and assessment in the nation’s schools. The report led to a book, published in 2003, which was edited by Kilpatrick and UGA colleague Brad Findell, and titled Standards-Based School Mathematics Curricula: What Are They? What Do Students Learn?
Kilpatrick was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 2003. He was designated a National Associate by the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
In addition to nearly three decades of teaching and research at UGA, Kilpatrick has taught mathematics education courses at several European and Latin American universities and has received Fulbright awards to support his work in New Zealand, Spain, Columbia and Sweden.
Born in Iowa and raised in Southern California, Kilpatrick began his teaching career in 1957 at Garfield Junior High School in Berkeley, Calif. After earning a doctorate at Stanford University, he worked his way through the ranks at Teachers College, Columbia University before joining the UGA faculty in 1975.
See an in-depth Q&A with Regents Professor Jeremy Kilpatrick on the current state of mathematics education and the challenges facing educators on the front page of COE Online News.
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
WRITER: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
CONTACT: Jeremy Kilpatrick, 706/542-4163, jkilpat@coe.uga.edu