Dr Robert J. (Bob) Wright holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
mathematics from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a
doctoral degree in mathematics education from the University of
Georgia. He is an adjunct professor in mathematics education at
Southern Cross University in New South Wales. Bob is an
internationally recognized leader in assessment and instruction
relating to children’s early arithmetical knowledge and strategies,
publishing six books, and many articles and papers in this field.
His work over the last 25 years has included the development of the
Mathematics Recovery Program, which focuses on providing specialist
training for teachers to advance the numeracy levels of young
children assessed as low-attainers. In Australia and New Zealand,
Ireland, the UK, the USA, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and
elsewhere, this programme has been implemented widely, and applied
extensively to classroom teaching and to average and able learners
as well as low-attainers. Bob has conducted several research
projects funded by the Australian Research Council including the
most recent project focusing on assessment and intervention in the
early arithmetical learning of low-attaining 8- to
10-year-olds.
Garry Stanger has had a wide-ranging involvement in primary,
secondary and tertiary education in Australia. He has held
positions of Head Teacher, Deputy Principal and Principal, and has
been a Mathematics Consultant with the New South Wales Department
of Education. He has also taught in schools in the USA. He has
worked with Robert Wright on the Mathematics Recovery project since
its inception in 1992 and has been involved in the development of
the Count Me In Too early numeracy project. His last project before
finally retiring was working with Jenny Bednall, Head of Junior
School, Trinity South and the thirty teachers at the Trinity
College schools in South Australia.
Jim Martland is a member of the International Board of Mathematics
Recovery and Founder of the Mathematics Recovery Council (UK and
Ireland). He was a Senior Fellow in the Department of Education at
the University of Liverpool. In his long career in education he has
held headships in primary and middle schools and was Director of
Primary Initial Teacher Training. In all the posts he continued to
teach and pursue research in primary mathematics. His current work
is with local education authorities in the UK and Canada,
delivering professional development courses on assessing children’s
difficulties in numeracy and designing and evaluating teaching
interventions.
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