ˇBIENVENIDOS! & WELCOME to the homepage of
Lawrence
(Larry) Lesser is a Mathematical Sciences
Dept. Professor in the College of
Science at The Univ. of Texas at El Paso
in the UT System.
his EMAIL is
Lesser followed by @utep.edu
office PHONE is (915) 747-6845; his department’s
(daytime) FAX is (915) 747-6502 (put
his name on coversheet)
OFFICE is
room 213 (by water fountain on 2nd floor) of Bell Hall (on Wiggins
Road, near north side of Library).
US MAIL address is: UTEP Mathematical Sciences
Dept.
(note for deliveries: the math dept. office is room 124 on the
ground floor of Bell
Hall (on Wiggins Road, near north side of Library) and is generally open
M-F 8-12 & 1-5; another map)
Browse his BACKGROUND, SCHEDULE & RESOURCE PAGES:
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for statistics/mathematics
education |
π Pi Day! (3/14) |
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Teaching for
Excellence and Equity in Mathematics a refereed journal of TODOS:
Mathematics for ALL |
(the
Mathemusician!) |
Greater El Paso Council of
Teachers of Mathematics |
QUICK BIO: Statistics/math educator Larry Lesser has taught university math, statistics and math
education courses in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas and since 2004 has been at
UTEP (where he is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences). His
time in Texas also includes some years as a state agency statistician and as a
high school math teacher, and those experiences have enriched his
teaching. His statistics/math education
interests include misconceptions/intuition/representations, language/culture,
equity, teacher education/knowledge, and engagement. His research/scholarship
includes some 60+ peer-reviewed papers in statistics/math education (that have
been cited 100+ times by others) and has led to service on 5
national/international research or editorial boards (including a founding
editor of Teaching
for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics) and on elected/appointed
offices/committees in national organizations (e.g., National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics; American Statistical Association; Consortium for the Advancement
of Undergraduate Statistics Education).
His teaching innovations have
generated textbooks (e.g., the COMAP/Freeman math-for-liberal-arts textbook For All Practical Purposes),
invited regional/national conference keynotes (on topics including equity,
assessment, and math-and-music), stories in international mass media (e.g., CNN
Headline News), radio/TV
appearances, and recognitions from individual universities and beyond
(including: 2001 AASU Gignilliat Professor, 2008-2011 UTEP CETaL
Fellow, 2011 UTEP College of Science Distinguished Achievement Award in
Teaching, the 2010 Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics Award from the Southwestern
Section of the Mathematical Association of America, a 2011 SIGMAA-QL contest winner, and a
2011 Regents’ Outstanding
Teaching Award from the University of Texas System (comprising 9
universities and 10,000+ faculty).
