Expert Authors

Ron Larson and Robyn Silbey are the market leading author team for Larson Learning® with over four decades of successful teaching and writing strategies about mathematics in real-world settings.

Ron Larson is a professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie and the author of several calculus, precalculus, high school mathematics, and middle school mathematics texts and multimedia mathematics programs. Ron started with the national bestseller Calculus, published by Houghton Mifflin, and "worked backwards" through over 40 titles and 100 editions, making sure that the elements necessary for success at higher levels of math were in place along the way. Larson has received many honors, including several from the Textbook Author's Association. In 1998, he was selected by Lewis and Clark College to receive the college's Distinguished Alumni Award. Ron earned a M.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Topology from the University of Colorado.

Robyn Silbey received her master's degree in mathematics education from Western Maryland College. She has been a public school teacher since 1974. Her experiences include 12 years as a classroom teacher and over 18 years as a math specialist and teacher trainer. As a member of advisory and evaluation committees for math, Robyn has been involved in the creation, review, and selection of curriculums, programs, and materials used in the Montgomery County Public Schools. Robyn is also a nationally recognized speaker, presenting at major educational conferences such as ASCD, NCTM, NMSA, NSDC, and NCSM. Robyn is the coauthor of Larson's Algebra 1 and Larson's Prealgebra. She is a program author of McGraw-Hill Mathematics K-6 and coauthored the book So You Have to Teach Math: Sound Advice for K-6 Teachers with Marilyn Burns.