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Patricia D. Shure is an American mathematics educator. With Morton Brown and B. Alan Taylor, she is known for developing "Michigan calculus", a style of teaching calculus and combining cooperative real-world problem solving by the students with an instructional focus on conceptual understanding.{{r|memoir|michcalc|funny}} She is a senior lecturer emerita of mathematics at the University of Michigan, where she taught from 1982 until her retirement in 2006.{{r|memoir}}

Education and career

Shure did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Michigan, earning a bachelor's degree in 1958 and a master's degree in 1960. After working as a secondary school teacher for two decades, she returned to Michigan in 1982 as coordinator for mathematics and science in the Coalition for the Use of Learning Skills. She also became a lecturer in mathematics, and later a senior lecturer.{{r|memoir}}

Mathematics education

At Michigan, she played a key role not just in teaching mathematics, but in training the other instructors and graduate students there to be good teachers of mathematics.{{r|hay}} Her work on calculus reform began in 1992;{{r|memoir}} it was based in part on the "Harvard calculus" project led by Andrew M. Gleason, and her instructor training materials have been widely used at other universities.{{r|hay}} With Gleason and others, she became the author of a widely used precalculus textbook, Functions Modeling Change: A Preparation for Calculus (Wiley, 2000; 5th ed., 2017).{{r|memoir|ruane}} The program she initiated at Michigan continues in successful use there.{{r|michcalc}}

Recognition

In 2001 the Association for Women in Mathematics gave Shure their Louise Hay Award for her contributions to mathematics education.{{r|hay}} In the same year she became the AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer, speaking on "The Scholarship of Learning and Teaching: A Look Back and a Look Ahead".{{r|falconer}}

References

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3. ^{{citation|url=https://www.lib.umich.edu/faculty-history/faculty/patricia-d-shure/memoir|title=Memoir: Patricia D. Shure|work=Faculty History Project|publisher=University of Michigan|author=The Regents of the University of Michigan|accessdate=2018-04-29}}
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5. ^{{citation|title=Review of Functions Modeling Change: A Preparation for Calculus (2nd ed., 2004)|first=P. N.|last=Ruane|work=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|date=June 2005|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/functions-modeling-change-a-preparation-for-calculus-0}}