Ms Maryanne Tipler, of Picton, ONZM for services to mathematics education
Maryanne Tipler is New Zealand’s leading author of mathematics textbooks and teacher support resources for primary, intermediate and secondary schools. She has produced more books and teacher files than any other educational author in New Zealand, and her textbooks are used extensively throughout New Zealand, with at least 85 percent of schools having used them over the years. She has written three major series for New Zealand, ‘National Curriculum Mathematics’, ‘New Zealand Curriculum Mathematics’, and ‘NZ Curriculum Mathematics – Connecting All Strands’. Mrs Tipler was Senior Publisher at Cambridge University Press in the United Kingdom and wrote mathematics textbooks for UK secondary schools and Australian primary schools. She has utilised best practice methodology from curriculums in the United Kingdom and Australia to enhance her writing for New Zealand.