Barbara Pearl is an international award winning educator and author. She is the author of Math in Motion: Origami in the Classroom K-8, also available in Spanish, and Whale of a Tale, a book that integrates origami and storytelling for early readers.
Barbara is the founder and Director of Math in Motion, a program she pioneered that integrates origami and mathematics across the curriculum. Barbara travels extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including Russia, China, and Japan. She presents professional staff development for teachers and student and family workshops, helping schools and districts improve the quality of teaching and learning mathematics.
She received the 2003 Graduate Faculty award for “Excellence in Academic Achievement and Leadership” from La Salle University. Featured on National TV and in Creative Classroom, Ms. Pearl is the three-time receipient of the National Library Week Award, including the Los Angeles “Ezra Jack Keats” award for her multicultural educational programs using origami. She is the Regional and Philadelphia Chapter President of Pi Lambda Theta, an International Honor Society and Professional Association in Education.
Ms. Pearl installed the first “Origami & Math” Exhibitions at The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, PA, the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia International Airport. Her Origami Exhibit was recently selected for the 2006-2007 Artmobile, an outreach museum sponsored by Bucks County Community College, that traveled to over 20,000 school children.
With her husband, Verne, Barbara is also active in humane education and animal welfare, and they have presented and written several articles advocating humane alternatives to coexisting peacefully with all wildlife and farm animals. They rescue cats and share their Nationally Certified Wildlife Backyard Habitat with a variety of birds, deer, and squirrels. They hope to create a more compassionate and humane world.
For more information about Math in Motion, visit Barbara’s website at: www.mathinmotion.com
