Julie McNamara
Associate Professor
Cal State East Bay
Julie McNamara, a former classroom teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at CSU East Bay. She focuses on the teaching and learning of mathematics concepts that are foundational but considered "hard to teach and hard to learn." She is the coauthor (with Meghan Shaughnessy) of Beyond Pizzas and Pies: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense, 2nd ed. and author of Beyond Invert and Multiply: Making Sense of Fraction Computation. She cares deeply about the mathematics education of all children, especially those from traditionally marginalized communities.