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BOUT THE
Thomas C. O'Brien, Ph.D.
Thomas C. O'Brien is a former professor at Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville, Illinois. His work in education is three-fold: teacher education,
curriculum development and research on children's thinking. As a researcher, he
has studied the growth of mathematical ideas in subjects from pre-school to
medical school and law school. As a teacher, he has worked with students from
the seventh grade through graduate school. As a curriculum developer, he has
written twelve math-problem books for children, as well as written and edited
some eighty papers on children's thinking and education published through the
Teachers' Center Project.
In addition, Dr. O'Brien has published and delivered some 100 papers on chil-
dren's thinking, mathematics education, intellectual development and educa-
tional change. His papers and presentations have taken place in the United
States, Canada, Great Britain, Holland, France, Switzerland, Hungary and
Brazil. Dr. O'Brien was named a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Senior Research Fellow-in-Science in 1978. He received his bachelor's degree
from Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, and his Ph.D. from New York University.
Other Sunburst programs designed by Thomas O'Brien include: Teasers by
Tobbs, Tobbs Learns Algebra, The King's Rule, The Royal Rules, Blockers and
Finders, Blockers and Finders II, Winker's World of Patterns, Winker's World of
Numbers, More Teasers by Tobbs, Teasers by Tobbs with Integers and Label Land.
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