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Natasha Blank holds a PhD in pure mathematics. She has worked in teacher education at the University of Stavanger ago 1997. She has over 30 years of broad teaching experience of Ukraina, United Kingdom, US and Norway. From 2009 in cooperation with Gerd Inger Moe she began to implement Zankovs model in Norway.

Irene Arginskaja (1932–2006) had a difficult, but colorful life. In hard young age she ended up in Stalin's terror wave. She was jailed as the tenth-grader and set one year in solitary confinement and further six years in Tayshet camp. These years broke her down, but tempered her as a human being. She was a sympathetic, kind and nice person with a wonderful sense of humor, while she was always uncompromising in scientific discussions and defended their views actively. Irén Iljinitsjna considered both the meeting with Leonid Vladimirovich Zankov in the early 1960s and worked in the lab as he led, that events of immense importance for their future life. The laboratory was part of the USSR Research Institute for pedagogical theory and history at the Academy of pedagogical sciences. It was at that time she developed as a researcher and practitioner, and devoted his talent to the idea of ​​creating a new system of mathematics teaching. This system would contribute optimally to the child's overall development. Her article in fellesmonografien "Training and Development" (1975) is devoted to this topic. Such an approach permeates the textbooks in mathematics which she has created and which millions of schoolchildren have used since then.

Irén Iljinitsjna is the author of a methodical training in mathematics, which was named the best textbook of a new generation. The award ceremony was held under the auspices of the National Foundation for competence and Russian education ministry. In recent years, Irén Arginskaja worked as a lecturer at the Academy for capacity building and training for teachers under the Russian Federation's education ministry. Despite a serious illness, she traveled to the regions of Russia, where she met teachers who were followers of Zankovs method. She was both very fond of them, she respected them highly and regarded teachers as real enthusiasts of their profession. She even taught at seminars and conferences, while she continued to work on improving their own textbooks, aids and teaching materials. She was a good supervisor and editor for young collaborators.

Arginskaja had big plans, she would give the children an exciting and original mathematical encyclopedia and edited and enhanced the methodological aids over and over again ...

Interview with Arginskaja 2003:
— Irene, some teachers reviewing textbooks your as difficult. Do you agree with this?
- You can ask former students about, those who have followed Zankovs mathematics program. It is unlikely that they will agree to this, although textbooks are actually not simple. But what is easy in life? And by the way: You should hear how these young people think, the concepts they use, how independent they are. We have not only taught them, we have helped them reach a new level in their own development!

Jane (Evgenia) Kats (born 1974) is an educator who has developed a unique methodology with a playful teaching for children of different ages.
She graduated from the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Jane Kats has driven various types of teaching for children for fifteen years. For the past eight years she has been doing mathematics education for children aged 5-9 year.
Annual she arranged play camps and festivals for children in Moscow, Moscow area, Germany, USA, France and Australia.

Yevgenia Kats has written numerous books ("The mathematics in your hands", "Matematikkaken", "Toys for recent mothers") and work booklets "exciting math,no" og "mathematics ".
She is a popular blogger.

Kats has two teenage children. One of them is involved in organizing events for young tourists and mathematical lekoteker in Moscow.