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John LaMaster
Senior Instructor Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences
John LaMaster
Senior Instructor Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences
John is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). Throughout his career teaching university mathematics, he has been recognized with numerous teaching awards for his innovation and creativity in the classroom and online.
- He was inducted into Indiana University’s Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) in 1994.
- In 2004 he was the named the IPFW Friends of the University Teacher of the Year. He was the recipient of the 2016 IPFW Excellence in Online Teaching Award and the 2017 IPFW Leepoxy Teaching Award.
- Beyond PFW, John received Purdue University West Lafayette’s Digital Education Award for 2017 Innovative Course Design and Use of Technology. Nationally, he captured the 2017 Excellence and Innovation Award from the Online Learning Consortium for tremendous advances in digital learning. Internationally, John was recognized with the 2019 Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) International Conference Leadership Award for his enthusiastic drive to help teachers apply classroom technology to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics.
- In recognition of the influence of his teaching effectiveness beyond his own institution, he was presented with the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award by the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
- He was the recipient of the award for the 2022-23 Featured Faculty for Teaching Excellence for 34 years of innovation and initiatives to enhance active learning in his own classes and those of his peers.
John has acquired over a dozen educational grants totaling more than $190,000 to improve student learning. He was part of the administrative cabinet for the Indiana Mathematics Initiative (IMI), a ten-year mathematics and science partnership funded by the National Science Foundation ($8.8 million) to support long-term sustainable improvements in mathematics education at elementary schools and high schools. He designed and led workshops in nine Indiana school districts that focused on implementing reform curriculum with graphing calculators, and as the IMI technology coordinator, he administered innovative professional development tools for elementary teachers to share reflections and support each other through distance learning.
John's passion is to create a learner-centered, active classroom where students use technology to unlock the power of visualization to mathematize their world and to make sense out of abstract mathematical ideas. As a National T3 Instructor, John presents annually at T3 international conferences, writes materials for their professional development workshops, is a panelist on their national live webinars, and gives feedback gives feedback to Texas Instrument developers working on new product releases. In addition, John creates online, interactive videos with Camtasia™ and Adobe Captivate™ and has authored and coded self-scoring, algorithmic, web-based questions for Pearson (My Math Lab), Wiley (WileyPlus), and Digital Ed (Möbius).
When not in the classroom, John enjoys time with his beautiful wife Laura and, when they are home from college, his two amazing sons, Kevin and David. John's hobbies and interests include nature, reading, movies, scrapbooking, guitar, and always learning.
- He was inducted into Indiana University’s Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) in 1994.
- In 2004 he was the named the IPFW Friends of the University Teacher of the Year. He was the recipient of the 2016 IPFW Excellence in Online Teaching Award and the 2017 IPFW Leepoxy Teaching Award.
- Beyond PFW, John received Purdue University West Lafayette’s Digital Education Award for 2017 Innovative Course Design and Use of Technology. Nationally, he captured the 2017 Excellence and Innovation Award from the Online Learning Consortium for tremendous advances in digital learning. Internationally, John was recognized with the 2019 Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) International Conference Leadership Award for his enthusiastic drive to help teachers apply classroom technology to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics.
- In recognition of the influence of his teaching effectiveness beyond his own institution, he was presented with the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award by the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
- He was the recipient of the award for the 2022-23 Featured Faculty for Teaching Excellence for 34 years of innovation and initiatives to enhance active learning in his own classes and those of his peers.
John has acquired over a dozen educational grants totaling more than $190,000 to improve student learning. He was part of the administrative cabinet for the Indiana Mathematics Initiative (IMI), a ten-year mathematics and science partnership funded by the National Science Foundation ($8.8 million) to support long-term sustainable improvements in mathematics education at elementary schools and high schools. He designed and led workshops in nine Indiana school districts that focused on implementing reform curriculum with graphing calculators, and as the IMI technology coordinator, he administered innovative professional development tools for elementary teachers to share reflections and support each other through distance learning.
John's passion is to create a learner-centered, active classroom where students use technology to unlock the power of visualization to mathematize their world and to make sense out of abstract mathematical ideas. As a National T3 Instructor, John presents annually at T3 international conferences, writes materials for their professional development workshops, is a panelist on their national live webinars, and gives feedback gives feedback to Texas Instrument developers working on new product releases. In addition, John creates online, interactive videos with Camtasia™ and Adobe Captivate™ and has authored and coded self-scoring, algorithmic, web-based questions for Pearson (My Math Lab), Wiley (WileyPlus), and Digital Ed (Möbius).
When not in the classroom, John enjoys time with his beautiful wife Laura and, when they are home from college, his two amazing sons, Kevin and David. John's hobbies and interests include nature, reading, movies, scrapbooking, guitar, and always learning.