Milwaukee mathematician, teacher inspired Black students to see math within themselves

Gloria Gilmer was a Milwaukee teacher and mathematician who was a leader in the field of ethnomathematics. She died Aug. 25 at 93.

From a young age, Gloria Gilmer saw math in everything. Growing up in Baltimore in the 1930s, Gilmer, the daughter of a Barbadian immigrant and a school teacher from rural Georgia, spent her weekends and after-school hours working in her father’s corner store, counting and measuring out items and […]

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