Lee Vernon Stiff (February 4, 1949 - March 19, 2021)[1] was an American mathematics education researcher; a professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the College of Education at North Carolina State University (NCSU);[2] and the author of several mathematics textbooks.
[4] From 2000 to 2002 Stiff was president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
[7] Stiff rejected simple solutions to complex issues, saying that "Back to basics is moving backward.
[10] In 2010 the NC State College of Education gave him their Distinguished Alumni Award.
Valerie Faulkner and Patricia Marshall, he wrote the critically important work, The Stories We Tell: Math, Race, Bias, and Opportunity, which "...sits the "gap problem" on the doorsteps of schools and districts and off the backs of children and parents."