[5] In 1965 she hosted an educational television series on mathematics, on the Arizona State University channel KAET.
[6] She first joined the board of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1973,[3] while working for the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona,[7] and she served as president from 1988 to 1990.
[3] Under her presidency, the NCTM issued a report calling for more emphasis on reasoning over rote learning in primary and secondary school mathematics education,[8] for the incorporation of calculators into classroom work,[9] and for greater connections to everyday practical problems.
[2] Frye was the inaugural recipient of the Louise Hay Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics, in 1991.
[13][14] She won the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.