Martha K. Smith is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, professor emerita in the department of mathematics, and associated professor emerita in the department of statistics and data science at the University of Texas at Austin.
She began her long career at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973 as an assistant professor of mathematics.
Smith used a variety of teaching methods as well bringing technology, group work, and writing projects into the curriculum before these techniques were in vogue.
[5] In spring 1993, Smith received a Department of Mathematics Teaching Award at Texas.
[3] James W. Brewer and Martha K. Smith, Emmy Noether: A Tribute to Her Life and Work, Marcel Dekker, Monographs and Textbooks in Pure and Applied Mathematics Vol.