Glenda T. Lappan (born 1939) is a professor emerita of mathematics at Michigan State University.
Following that work, she began the Connected Mathematics Project, initially envisioned as a five-year effort to implement the NCTM standards.
[3] In 1996 the Association for Women in Mathematics gave her their Louise Hay Award.
[1] In 2002, the Connected Mathematics project endowed the Lappan-Phillips-Fitzgerald Endowed Chair in Mathematics Education at Michigan State, named after Lappan and the other two founders of the project.
[1][4] The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics gave her a lifetime achievement award in 2004.