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CALEB
GATTEGNO
1911 - 1988
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Born in
Alexandria, Egypt, in 1911
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Licencie es
Sciences (B. Sc.) in Physics and Chemistry, 1931 University of
Marseille
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Diplome d'Etudes
Superieurs de Mathematiques, 1936
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Mathematics teacher
at the Lycee Francais in Alexandria (Mission Laique Francaise),
1932-36
- Ph.D in
mathematics at the University of Basel: Les cas essentiellement geodesiques
des equations de Hamilton-Jacobi integrables par separation des variables
(The essentially geodesic cases of Hamilton-Jacobi equations integrable by the
separation of variables), 1937
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Founder and
Director of the Centre d'Etudes Superieures Scientifiques et Technique in Cairo,
1938-45
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"Visiting
Mathematics Professor" at the University of Liverpool, 1945-46
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Master of Arts in
Education at the University of London: The Mathematical Definition of
Education, 1948
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Docteur es Lettres
(Philosophy) at the University of Lille, 1952
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Mathematics teacher
and teacher trainer for grammar schools in the London area and at the University
of London, 1946-57
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Member of a United
Nations (Technical Assistance) mission to Ethiopia with the object of finding a
solution to the problem of illiteracy, 1957-58
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Founder of The Cuisenaire Company , 1954; director until 1986. Production of the Cuisenaire materials and
the accompanying manuals
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Company extended to
include publishing in 1960 with branches in 7 countries. 70 authors including
Caleb Gattegno were published between 1960 and 1982
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Mathematics at Your Fingertips 1961, film.
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Founder of Educational Solutions
in 1968 in New York where he lived until his death in 1988
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He travelled (10
trips around the world) and taught the subordination of teaching to learning in
the fields of literacy, language learning and mathematics
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Founder of the
International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics
Education (CIEAEM) in 1951; he left in 1960
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In 1952 he founded
The Association for Teaching Aids in Mathematics (ATAM), which became The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM), and its journal Mathematics
Teaching which is published 4 times a year and has 4000
members
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In 1952 he also
participated in the founding of the Societe Belge des Professeurs de
Mathematique d'expression francaise and its journal Mathematica et
Paedagogia
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From 1947 until his
death, he ran seminars for international groups, mainly in Europe, in North and
South America and in Japan
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From 1971 until his
death, he published the Educational Solutions Newsletter five times a
year
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He is the author of
pedagogical works, books on psychology and books of reflection on different
subjects (death, health, love, economics)
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Between 1944 and 1988 he published almost 120 books and 500 articles in
scientific and other journals in a dozen countries. See the bibliography
of his works
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He created pedagogical materials for the teaching of reading (Words in
Color, Infused Reading), foreign languages (Silent Way) and mathematics
(Numbers in Color, geoboards)
He died in
Paris in 1988 two weeks after having run the seminar Le mystere de la
communication near Grenoble.
c Une Education Pour Demain, Association 1901
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