Herbert Ginsburg

Teachers College, Columbia University

Jacob H. Schiff Foundation Professor of Psychology and Education

Herbert P. Ginsburg, Ph.D., is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has conducted basic research on the development of mathematical thinking, with particular attention to young children, disadvantaged populations, and cultural similarities and differences. He has drawn on cognitive developmental psychology to develop a variety of materials for young children, including a mathematics curriculum (Big Math for Little Kids), storybooks, both traditional and digital, tests of mathematical thinking, and math software. He has just published a video-book on Young Children’s Amazing Everyday Math. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.