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Elizabeth Fennema is an American educator and researcher in mathematics education. She was born on April 8, 1928, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1950 and her master's degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1952. She then earned her doctorate in mathematics education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965. Fennema is best known for her research on gender differences in mathematics learning. She has published numerous books and articles on the subject, including her most famous work, Mathematics, Gender, and Science: An Integrated Approach (1976). She has also served as a professor of mathematics education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Georgia. Fennema is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the National Science Foundation's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award in 2000 and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Fennema is 93 years old and her net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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2021

Fennema married Owen Fennema in 1948. She died on December 20, 2021.

1995

She retired from the University of Wisconsin at the end of the 1995–1996 academic year.

1994

She received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Mount Mary College in 1994. She received the 2021 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Lifetime Achievement Award.

1985

Fennema received the first Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research on Women and Education from the American Educational Research Association (Special Interest Group for Research on Women in Education) in 1985. She received the Dora Helen Skypek Award from the Association for Women and Mathematics Education in 1986.

1970

After finishing her PhD she was hired as a half time, non-tenured track, position. In 1970 the University created part-time tenured-track positions and Fennema obtained one of the positions.

1962

In 1962 Kathryn Clarenbach (a founder of NOW) sent out a questionnaire inquiring of unemployed or underemployed wives of university professors who were interested in a career. As a result of this process Fennema was asked to be a supervisor of student teachers. In this position she worked for Vere DeVault who encouraged her to pursue a doctorate in education and served as her dissertation adviser. She began in 1962 and received the degree in 1969 in curriculum and instruction in mathematics education. In 1962 "new math" was in vogue and many educators were thinking deeply about how to teach mathematical understanding to students. Fennema recognized the importance of a good foundation in mathematics was critical for all students leading to her interest in math education.

1928

Ann Elizabeth Fennema (née Hammer; April 8, 1928 – December 20, 2021) was an American educator specializing in the teaching of mathematics.

Fennema was born in El Dorado, Kansas, on April 8, 1928, and attended the local Methodist college for two years, before transferring to Kansas State University where she majored in psychology. She received her master's degree in education from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.