Catherine Stern, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Catherine Stern

German educationist, naturalist and non-fiction writer (1894-1973)

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1894

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1973

Profession: naturalist, psychologist, pedagogue, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Catherine Brieger Stern (1894–1973) was a German psychologist and educator.
She developed sets of mathematical manipulatives similar to Cuisenaire rods for children to use in building up their number sense and knowledge of arithmetic.
Her book, Children Discover Arithmetic (1949) was used by others to work on the problems that children face when learning arithmetic.In 1938, she emigrated to the United States.
From 1940 to 1943, she was research assistant to Max Wertheimer at the New School for Social Research.