William G. McCallum

Education and professional work McCallum received a bachelor's degree from the University of New South Wales in 1977, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984, under the supervision of Barry Mazur.

He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley before joining the University of Arizona in 1987. In 2014 he founded a company, eventually known as Illustrative Mathematics, to develop teaching resources for the mathematics standards that he helped develop.

Selected honors and awards In 2012, McCallum became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In the same year he received the inaugural Mary P. Dolciani Award for distinguished contributions to mathematical education, administered by the Mathematical Association of America, and the AMS Distinguished Public Service Award of the American Mathematical Society, "for his energetic and effective efforts in promoting improvements to mathematics education"