Shlomo Libeskind is a professor in the mathematics department at the University of Oregon in Eugene, and has been responsible there for the mathematics teaching major since 1986.  In addition to teaching and advising pre-service and in-service teachers, Dr. Libeskind has extensive writing experience (books, articles, and workshop materials) as well as in directing mathematics education projects. In teaching and in writing, Dr. Libeskind uses a heuristic approach to problem solving and proof; in this approach the reasonableness of each step in a solution or proof is emphasized along with a discussion on why one direction might be more promising than another.

As part of his focus on the improvement of the teaching of mathematics, Dr. Libeskind is also involved at many levels locally, nationally, and worldwide in the evaluation of mathematics teacher preparation programs. In his home state he is actively involved in schools and councils.  Most recently (spring 2008) he visited teacher colleges in Israel as a Fulbright Fellow.  During this visit he conducted observations and critiques of the preparation of mathematics teachers at several colleges in Northern Israel.

Dr. Libeskind received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mathematics at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Madison.