Larry Burke is currently a classroom teacher with over twenty years of classroom experience in both middle school and high school. He is a three-time recipient of the Disney Teacheriffic Award for his innovative teaching ideas.

As a nationally recognized speaker, Larry has conducted seminars and workshops throughout the United States and Canada. His presentations at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Southern Region Education Board Conference (SREB), and numerous state conferences have been extremely well received by teachers.

Larry has authored fourteen lab activity books which include The Way to Students' Minds is Through Their Stomachs, one volume each of Pre-Algebra Labs, and Geometry Labs, and nine volumes of Algebra Labs. Larry's most recent work has been ten volumes of Labs, Puzzles, Games and Other Activities to Make Math More Interesting and Fun and four volumes of puzzles that cross the curriculum from math to history to English.

Larry's creative ideas, techniques, strategies, labs, puzzles, and games can be immediately implemented in your classroom to help you answer that age-old question, "What does algebra have to do with the real-world?" You will appreciate Larry's down-to-earth style in promoting positive change in mathematics education.