James Tanton

James Stuart Tanton (born August 1, 1966) is a mathematician and math educator.

in mathematics from the University of Adelaide, and he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1994, with a thesis in algebraic topology titled A Homological Fibration for Gl [infinity].

Tanton taught at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts, from 2002 to 2011.

[4] Currently he is a visiting scholar at the Mathematical Association of America in Washington, DC.

MATHEMATICAL THINKING: Numbers and their Algebra (An advanced course for middle-school students and their teachers.