Sue Singer is a British mathematics educator. She is the former headmistress of

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, a girls' school in

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, the former president of the

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, and the former president of the

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Career

Singer married and had children before studying at the university level, and began her university studies in 1971 with a mathematics course at the

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, in its first class of students. After completing a degree through the Open University, and a

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, she became a mathematics teacher at

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, and eventually head of mathematics there, before becoming headmistress at Guildford. She retired from Guildford in 2002 and later became a

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, leading the schools practice at Saxton Bampfylde.

Association leadership

As president of the Girls' Schools Association, she led calls to replace the

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examination system by teacher evaluations. Singer was president of the Mathematical Association for the 2005–2006 term. She is an avid sailor, and her presidential address to the Mathematical Association included mathematical problems associated with sailing as examples of the applicability of mathematics to everyday life, a topic that she felt should be emphasized in mathematical teaching.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Singer, Sue Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British mathematicians British women mathematicians British mathematics educators Alumni of the Open University Women heads of schools in the United Kingdom