About the Authors
Jean-Paul Ginestier, M.Sc, B.Ed.
Originally French, Jean-Paul Ginestier was brought up in England and took his first degree there. He then taught in Cameroon, then the UK, before settling with his wife and two children in Canada, where he gained teaching and administrative experience in both the private and public systems, in English and in French. He also took his B.Ed, then his M.Sc. at the University of Toronto. In 1984-85, he was on exchange at the International School of Geneva, Switzerland, where John Egsgard had taught in the same capacity two years earlier.
Jean-Paul Ginestier also has a long experience, both as a teacher and an examiner, with the International Baccalaureate. From 1988 to 1995, he was Deputy Chief Examiner for IB Higher Level Mathematics. He has also made presentations at a many mathematics conferences in a number of countries.
Since 1995, he has been Head of Mathematics at three United World Colleges - the Nordic College in Norway, then the UWC of the Adriatic in Italy from 2004-2009, then UWC Costa Rica in 2012-13. He is now retired.
John Christian Egsgard, M.A.
John Egsgard retired from teaching in 1998 after 47 years in secondary school classrooms. Besides being an author of 15 secondary mathematics texts and editor of the Ontario Mathematics Gazette, he has been active in mathematics associations around the world. He has been president of both the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics of the USA, and the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education in Canada. John has been on many committees preparing for the first 9 International Congresses of Mathematics Education throughout the world. He has delivered papers or major speeches at most of the ICMEs.
John's experience with the IB comes from his year of teaching at the International School of Geneva, and in the marking of exams and preparing questions for them.
John passed away on July 10, 2016.