Marion Walter was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in Berlin.
In 1939, she escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport - a rescue operation that evacuated thousands of Jewish children to England before WWII.
Eventually Marion arrived in the US & earned her doctorate in math education from Harvard. She became a professor & founded the Boston Area Mathematics Specialists focused on improving math education for children.
Marion passed away in 2021, at age 92. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Walter/ #HistoryRemix
Marion Ilse Walter was born in Berlin and escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport to England. She emigrated to the United States in 1948 and after earning her doctorate, founded the Mathematics Department at Simmons College. She published over 40 journal articles, several children's books, and the popular book The Art of Problem Posing.
Anyone else thoroughly disgusted that a former UK gov minister says this about any human? "...we owe her nothing. She got herself into this mess and frankly it’s down to her to work out how she’s going to get out of it.”
This about:
- a British teen radicalised by online social media
- a minor sexually abused by terrorists
- a woman in a refugee camp, stripped of citizenship
Talk about " punching down". Shamima Begum is demonised by Tories to hide their failings
Truly a shame that on the 2 year anniversary of the Jan 6 insurrection, none of the ringleaders of this attack on our democracy have faced the slightest bit of justice and accountability.
Justice delayed is justice denied, and an insurrection that goes unpunished becomes a training exercise for next time.
The DOJ must act immediately to protect the American people, our democracy, and our national peace—before it's too late.