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Robert Kaplinsky

Mathematics Educator, Long Beach, CA

Robert Kaplinsky has been an educator since 2003 as a classroom teacher, district math teacher specialist, and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) instructor, and presenter at conferences around the world. He co-founded the website Open Middle, has been published in Edutopia and Education Week, is the author of Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking, and created the #ObserveMe movement. He’s also the founder and president of Grassroots Workshops. Robert is an author of Into Math and Into AGA. Robert graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Mathematics / Applied Science (Computer Science) and Masters of Education.

 
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Robert Kaplinsky
Mathematics Educator, Long Beach, CA