E. Glenadine Gibb

E. Glenadine Gibb, a member of the UNI mathematics faculty from 1946 to 1965, died June 29, 1984, in Austin, Texas. At the time of her death, she held the Catherine Mae Parker Centennial Professorship in Education at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held a dual appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Gibb received a B. Ed. degree from Western Illinois University in 1941, an M. A. degree from George Peabody College for Teachers (Vanderbilt University) in 1944, and a Ph. D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1953. She taught high school mathematics in Mendon and Geneseo, Illinois from 1941 to 1946. While at UNI, Gibb co-authored a number of mathematics textbooks and related publications, including Charting the Course for Arithmetic, Seeing Through Arithmetic, Foundations of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, and Teaching Children to Divide. From 1958 to 1964 she served on several writing teams of the School of Mathematics Study Group, which worked to revise and update public school curriculum materials. Gibb was also active in professional organizations, serving as president of the Iowa Association of Mathematics Teachers, editor of The Arithmetic Teacher, and as a consultant for the American Educational Research Association, the National Education Association, and a number of schools and universities. After moving to the University of Texas in 1965, Gibb served as president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics from 1974 to 1976.