Susan Addington Education Development Center, Newton, MA

Susan Addington is a professor of Mathematics at California State University,San Bernardino. Though her doctoral work was in arithmetic algebraic geometry (a field that includes almost every mathematical area except statistics),she now spends most of her time thinking about math education. Her educational interests include teacher preparation (elementary through college), ethnomathematics, and the use of technology to teach traditionally difficult ideas. Susan is married to David Dennis, a math educator, historian of mathematics, jazz saxophonist, and virtuoso gardener.