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Roundtables
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Don
Collins
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K-12 Authoring
and Publishing
Moderator:
Don Collins, former managing editor of the nation's best-selling
Pre-Algebra text and author and co-author of several mathematics
textbooks
Don Collins
graduated from West Texas State University with a BS in mathematics.
He has taught middle school/junior high mathematics in Texas and
Illinois. After earning an MA in mathematics from Boston College,
the next several years were spent in the publishing industry.
He was the editor of one of the nation's first Pre-Algebra texts.
Later, as managing editor he put together the authorship team
and guided the production of the nation's best selling Pre-Algebra
text. As his children graduated from college, he left the publishing
industry and went back to school earning his doctorate from the
University of Houston. Dr. Collins has taught mathematics and
mathematics methods courses at Ohio State University, Sam Houston
State, and Texas Tech before settling at Western Kentucky University.
He has served as a reviewer, consultant and co-author on several
mathematics texts and is a frequent speaker at NCTM and other
conferences.
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