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Jeremy Kilpatrick was a mathematics educator born on the 21 September of 1935 in Fairfield, Iowa and died on the 17 of September of 2022 in Athens, Georgia. He graduated in 1954 with an A.A. from a two-year college (Chaffey) in California before transferring to the University of California at Berkeley where he earned an A.B degree (1956) in mathematics and then an M.A degree (1960) in education, while teaching mathematics in a junior high school. He then went to Stanford University to work with Edward Begle and George Pólya, during the years 1962-1967, as a Research Assistant in the School Mathematics Study Group. At Stanford, he earned first an M.S. in mathematics (1962) and then a PhD degree in mathematics education (1967). His dissertation, which was supervised by Edward Begle, was on eight graders’ problem-solving heuristics, and problem solving was the focus of his research during the first several years of his career.

After having taught for several years (1967-1975) at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, first as an Assistant and later as an Associate Professor, Jeremy Kilpatrick joined the University of Georgia, in Athens, as a Professor of Mathematics Education, in 1975. In 1993, he was appointed a Regents Professor at Georgia. He also hold an honorary doctorate (1995) from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Over the years, he received countless national and international honors and awards for his service in the field of mathematics education, in which he was an internationally known figure.

Throughout his entire career, Jeremy Kilpatrick has won a large number of awards and honours, including the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics Education in 2003. He also received the Felix Klein Medal for 2007 from ICMI (The International Commission on Mathematics Instruction). This medal underlined his contributions and services to mathematics education as a field of theory and practice, as he liked to call it, that were centred around his ability to reflect on, critically analyse, and unify essential aspects of this field as it has developed since the early 20th century, while always insisting on the need for reconciliation and balance among different points of view and approaches and the methodologies adopted for research. He always embraced a very cosmopolitan perspective on mathematics education. Thus, he has worked in many countries such as Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Thailand, in addition to being remarkably knowledgeable about the international literature. Throughout his academic career, Jeremy Kilpatrick has published groundbreaking papers, book chapters and books - many of which are now standard references in the literature – on problem solving, on the history of research in mathematics education, on teachers’ proficiency, on curriculum change and its history, and on assessment.

A significant aspect of Jeremy Kilpatrick’s achievements is the immense amount of service that he has done for the international mathematics education community. Among his numerous accomplishments as an editor, he co-edited the very influential series of translations Soviet Studies in the Psychology and Teaching of Mathematics, 1969-1975, and was the editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1982-1988. He was a co-editor of the Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Mathematical Education (1983), the International Handbook of Mathematics Education (1996) and the Second International Handbook of Mathematics Education (2003), the ICMI Study Mathematics Education as a Research Domain (1998), Adding It Up (2001), A Research Companion to Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2003), A History of School Mathematics (2003), and Meaning in Mathematics Education (2005).

Jeremy Kilpatrick served three terms on the Executive Committee of the ICMI (1987-1998) and in 1991-1998 he was one of its two Vice Presidents. He was a charter member of the USA Mathematical Sciences Education Board 1985-1986, and 2004-2007. He also served on a large number of commissions, committees, boards, and panels in the USA: AERA, the College Board, Educational Testing Service, Mathematical Association of America, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, National Academy of Education, National Research Council, and National Science Foundation.

Jeremy Kilpatrick's lists of publications and presentations at national and international meetings are equally impressive. Both have to be counted in the hundreds. He has supervised a large number of Master’s and PhD students, quite a few of whom have gained international renown.

Awards

 * 2007 – The Felix Klein Medal by The International Commission on Mathematics Instruction
 * 2003 – Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics Education by The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics