Hi, I’m Jen Silverman, a retired independent math consultant. I taught students in grades 6-12 in public and independent schools in central Connecticut for 14 years. My experience helping to pilot (i.e. write) the State of Connecticut’s “Algebra 1 For All” curriculum, led to a position with one of the six Regional Education Support Centers in CT. There I helped to develop full-year, problem-based courses in Algebra1 and Geometry for the interdistrict program, Skills21. I am also the inventor of ProRadian Protractors, and I still sell them on that site.

As an experienced speaker (NCTM, GGBNA13, ATMNE, ATOMIC, CTEEA…), I presented on topics relevant to the CCSM including curricular and pedagogical changes. I was an avid GeoGebra user (see my profile on geogebra.org) and a Desmos aficionado, and for the few years it was around, I was a regular contributor to Daily Desmos. I am a strong proponent of blending appropriate technological learning tools into a student-centered math program. I developed most of the digital activities (called applets) for Illustrative Mathematics (IM) 6-8 Math and IM’s Alg1-Geom-Alg2 curricula, using Desmos and GeoGebra.

I miss engaging in great Twitter conversations with math educators from around the world who gathered at the hashtag, #MTBoS (Math Twitter Blog-o-Sphere). I won’t add content to this page anymore, but please visit proradian.net to see my protractors, the first* to be scaled in radians. 

*I couldn’t find any, but send a link if you’ve found one.