Marilyn Meinhardt Burns (born April 11, 1941)^[1] is a mathematics educator and the author of over a dozen children's books on mathematics.^[1]

Burns is a 1958 graduate of theWellington C. Mepham High School inThe Bellmores, New York.^[2] After receiving aB.A. fromSyracuse University inSyracuse, New York, and teaching in elementary and middle schools in Syracuse, Burns founded Math Solutions, an educational resource provider, in 1984.^[3] Burns pursued graduate studies at Syracuse University,San Francisco State University, and theUniversity of California at Berkeley.^[2]

In 1975, the National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council cited Burns's bookThe I Hate Mathematics! Book in "outstanding science books for children".^[1]

In 1991, theBank Street College of Education in New York awarded Burns an honorary doctoral degree.^[4]

In 1995 the Mepham High School Alumni Association listed Burns in their Hall of Fame.^[2]

In 1996, the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics honored Burns with the Ross Taylor/Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award "for her influence on mathematics education".^[5]

In 1997, theAssociation for Women in Mathematics honored Burns, "a mathematics educator with enormous scope and influence", with theLouise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education.^[3]

In 2010, theAssociation of Educational Publishers inducted Burns into the Educational Publishing Hall of Fame.^[6]

In 2012, theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Math Solutions a $2.2 million grant "to fund the development of a Web-based diagnostic tool that will help middle school teachers assess students' computational and problem-solving skills".^[7] The end product of this grant was Math Reasoning Inventory, an assessment tool developed by Burns in collaboration with K–12 teachers, which is available without cost to teachers and administrators.^[8]

• Burns, Marilyn (July 30, 1975).The I Hate Mathematics! Book. Martha Weston, illustrator. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.ISBN 978-0316117418.^[9]
• Burns, Marilyn (2020).Welcome to Math Class: A Collection of Marilyn's Favorite Lessons, Grades K-6. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN 978-1935099529.
• Burns, Marilyn (25 March 2015).About Teaching Mathematics: A K-4 Resource (4th ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN 978-1935099321.^[10]
• Burns, Marilyn (April 30, 1982).Math for Smarty Pants. Martha Weston, illustrator. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.ISBN 0-316-11739-0.

• Marilyn Burns, Math Solutions

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