William G. McCallum (born 1956 in

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, Australia) is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and was Head of the Department of Mathematics at the

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from 2009 to 2013.

Education and professional work

He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from

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in 1984, under the supervision of

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. After spending two years at the

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, and one at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1987. In 1989 he joined the Harvard calculus consortium, and is the lead author of the consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts. In 1993–94 he spent a year at the

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, and in 1995–96 he spent a year at the

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on a Centennial Fellowship from the

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. In 2006 he founded the Institute for Mathematics & Education at the University of Arizona. He was Director of the Institute until 2009 and again starting in 2013. In 2009–2010 he was one of the lead writers for the

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in Mathematics. His professional interests include arithmetical algebraic geometry and mathematics education.

Selected honors and awards

*2012:

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of the

.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-12 *2012: The

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, administered by the

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*2012: The American Mathematical Society Distinguished Public Service Award *2006:

College of Science Galileo Circle Fellow. *2005:

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’s Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars *1996: The University of Arizona College of Science Innovation in Teaching Award *1995: The American Mathematical Society Centennial Research Fellowship.

Current projects

Institute for Mathematics and Education

Common Core State Standards in Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics Project

Standards Progressions for the Common Core

Tools for the Common Core Blog

The Klein Project

Mathematical Models at the University of Arizona

References

External links

The U.S. Common Core State Standards
paper presented at ICME 12, Seoul, Kore
(slides for this talk)
*Restoring and Balancing, in Usiskin, Anderson, and Zotto (eds), Future Curricular Trends in School Algebra and Geometry, Information Age Publishing (2010) {{DEFAULTSORT:McCallum, William G. Living people 1956 births Australian mathematicians University of Arizona faculty Harvard University alumni Fellows of the American Mathematical Society People educated at North Sydney Boys High School