Rebecca Caison

Rebecca Caison received her B. S. in Mathematics Education from North Carolina State University in 1973 and her M. Ed. Degree with a concentration in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009.  She has thirty-eight (38) years teaching experience in high school mathematics.  Caison was a Nationally Board-Certified Teacher in Adolescence and Young Adulthood (AYA) Mathematics from 1998-2018.  She has been an adjunct instructor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an adjunct instructor at Greensboro College since 2015.  Caison is a member of the North Carolina Council of the Teachers of Mathematics (NCCTM) and has served as Secretary and as a regional president. She is a regular presenter at NCCTM conferences.  She received the W. W. Rankin award recognizing her contributions to NCCTM and the mathematics education community in 2011.  She is also a member of the National Council of the Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).  Caison received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) in 2003.

Caison’s interest is in promoting conceptual understanding of mathematics through mathematical discourse and the appropriate use of graphing technology. She is a regular presenter at T-cubed international conferences and summits where she shares her passion for connecting the visual, verbal, and numerical representations of mathematical concepts.  She was one of the five principal contributors to Resources for Algebra published by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.