Briars (surname)
Briars is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Diane Briars (born 1951), American mathematics educator *Gawain Briars (born 1958), British squash player and lawyer {{Short pages monitor ...
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Diane Briars
Diane Jane Briars (born 1951) is an American mathematics education, mathematics educator, the former president of both the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She has been an advocate for the Everyday Mathematics, Connected Mathematics, and Common Core State Standards Initiative mathematics education programs. Education and career Briars majored in mathematics at Northwestern University, graduating in 1973. She has a master's degrees in mathematics and a Ph.D. in mathematics education from Northwestern; the topic of her 1984 doctoral dissertation was ''Individual Differences in Rule Discovery: An Exploratory Study of the Inductive Reasoning Game Eleusis''. She has taught mathematics at the middle school level in Evanston, Illinois, where Northwestern is located. After completing her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, working there with Jill H. Larkin, and briefly held a position as ...
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