About the Author

Julie McNamara is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at California State University, East Bay, in Hayward, California. She also provides professional development and classroom coaching to teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before receiving a PhD in mathematics education from the University of California, Berkeley, she was a classroom teacher in local public schools. Julie is also the coauthor (with Meghan M. Shaughnessy) of Beyond Pizzas & Pies: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense, Grades 3-5, Second Edition (Math Solutions, 2015).