{"id":35480,"date":"2015-01-28T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=35480"},"modified":"2015-01-30T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T00:05:19","slug":"stiff-lee-mathematician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/stiff-lee-mathematician\/","title":{"rendered":"Stiff, Lee (Mathematician)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a class=\"postlink-local\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/african-american\/\">More Information On African Americans<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stiff_lee_2_300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-35786 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stiff_lee_2_300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"stiff_lee_2_300x300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stiff_lee_2_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stiff_lee_2_300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/stiff_lee_2_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Lee Vernon Stiff (born 1949) is an American mathematics education researcher, a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education at North Carolina State University, and the author of several mathematics textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Stiff&#8217;s father was &#8220;a factory worker with only a third-grade education&#8221;. Despite his inauspicious family background, Stiff studied mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1971, and went on to earn a masters degree from Duke University in 1974 and a doctorate in mathematics education from North Carolina State University in 1978. After teaching mathematics at the middle school and high school levels, and then holding a faculty position at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte beginning in 1978, he returned to NCSU in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>From 2000 to 2002 Stiff was president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Under his leadership, the NCTM pushed for a greater emphasis on basic computational skills in elementary and secondary school mathematics education, and for an appropriate emphasis on conceptual understanding. Stiff rejected simple solutions to complex issues, saying that &#8220;Back to basics is moving backward. Number-crunching alone is no longer enough.&#8221; Instead, Stiff has recommended better training and incentives for mathematics teachers, a teaching style that incorporates a variety of ways of looking at the same material, and an attitude that all students can learn mathematics regardless of their background.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995 he was a Fulbright scholar in Ghana. In 2009 he was an NCSU College Distinguished Award recipient,and in 2010 the NCSU College of Education gave him their Distinguished Alumni Award.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Stiff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click Here For More Information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Information On African Americans) Lee Vernon Stiff (born 1949) is an American mathematics education researcher, a professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education at North Carolina State University, and the author of several mathematics textbooks. Stiff&#8217;s father was &#8220;a factory worker with only a third-grade education&#8221;. 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