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Mr. Steven Rasmussen

CEO, Key Curriculum Press


Information: Mr. Rasmussen co-founded Key Curriculum Press in 1971 and is its CEO. Key Curriculum Press, a major publisher of educational material. He was a leader of The Geometer's Sketchpad geometry software development team and also the editor of Discovering Geometry: An Inductive Approach , a high school geometry textbook published by Key Curriculum in 1989. He is the author of Key to Fractions, Decimals and Percents, workbook series published by Key Curriculum Press with over 5 million in print. He has served as the Principal Investigator on two National Science Foundation projects: one to support teachers using technology in teaching geometry, and the other to promote discovery and cooperative learning through professional development. Mr. Rasmussen has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and holds a master's degree in mathematics education from Temple University . He taught secondary mathematics for seven years in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and Emeryville , California . He serves on the Board of the Emery Education Foundation and the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) and is a Director of BSMARTE (Business for Science, Math and Related Technologies Education), an organization dedicated to education advocacy in California . Steve also serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Learning and Teaching in the West and the Women and Mathematics Education, an NCTM affiliate. He has given hundreds of workshops and talks on mathematics and mathematics teaching at local, state, regional, national, and international professional meetings.