President
In 1971 Steven Rasmussen co-founded Key Curriculum Press. He is Key’s Publisher and CEO and President of KCP Technologies, an educational technology research and development company.Mr. Rasmussen has worked for two decades on software development, including The Geometer’s Sketchpad geometry software. He was the first editor of Discovering Geometry: An Inductive Approach, a high school geometry textbook published by Key Curriculum in 1989. He is the author of Key to Fractions, Decimals and Percents, workbook series published by Key Curriculum Press with over 5 million in print.
Mr. Rasmussen has served as the Principal Investigator on two National Science Foundation projects: one to support teachers using technology in teaching geometry, and the other to promote discovery and cooperative learning through professional development. Mr. Rasmussen has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and holds a master’s degree in mathematics education from Temple University. He taught secondary mathematics for seven years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Emeryville, California.
Mr. Rasmussen serves on the Board of the Emery Education Foundation and the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) and is a Director of BSMARTE (Business for Science, Math and Related Technologies Education), an organization dedicated to education advocacy in California. Steve also serves on the advisory boards of the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, based in the University of Missouri, the Friday Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Women and Mathematics Education, an NCTM affiliate.
He has given hundreds of workshops and talks on mathematics and mathematics teaching at local, state, regional, national, and international professional meetings and has worked on projects with various agencies of ministries of education in Asia.