click HERE for abstracts of some publications; click HERE for a 2-page overall brief vita updated October 20, 2009
CITATIONS
by others of my work have appeared in several dissertations, books
(e.g., the 2008 MAA book Calculation vs. Context: Quantitative Literacy and
its Implications for Teacher Education, the 2008 Springer Verlag book Developing Students' Statistical Reasoning:
Connecting Research and Teaching Practice, and the 2009 Wiley-Blackwell
book A Guide to Teaching Statistics:
Innovations and Best Practices), major websites (e.g., www.statlit.org),
and in over two dozen periodicals, including: Statistics
Education Research Journal, Journal
of Statistics Education, Model Assisted Statistics and Applications,
Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Primus, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and
Science Teaching, Computers in the Schools, International Journal
of Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education, Journal of Educational
Technology Systems, Teaching
Statistics, Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning in Higher Education, Journal of Mathematics and Culture, The
International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, The Montana Mathematics
Enthusiast, Mathematics Teacher, Journal
of Mathematics and the Arts, Radical
Statistics, Syllabus, Choice,
Transportation Research Record, and Proceedings of the Congress of the European
Society for Research in Mathematics Education, and Proceedings of the World Congress of the
International Fuzzy Systems Association.
selected PAPERS (I’m solo author unless otherwise noted):
* Lesser, L., Valenzuela, G., Wagler, A.,
& Winsor, M. (under review) paper for Statistics Education Research
Journal
* (under review for 2010 publication) invited
refereed paper for 8th quadrennial International
Conference on Teaching Statistics
* (accepted; expected in
mid/late 2010). Simple
Datasets for Distinct Basic Summary Statistics. Teaching Statistics
* Sorto, M.
Alejandra & Lesser,
* (in press; expected in Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010
issue). Sizing Up Class Size: A Deeper Classroom Investigation of Central
Tendency [a featured “Delving Deeper” paper]. Mathematics
Teacher, 103(5)
* Lesser,
* (in press; expected 2010). Confounded. The Mathematical Intelligencer
* (in press; expected fall 2009). Denominator. Journal
of the Association of Mexican American Educators [guest-edited by Drs.
Edward M. Olivos, Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, & Alberto M. Ochoa, the issue
has the theme: “Critical Issues in Mexican-American/Chicano/Latino Parent
Engagement in K-12 Schools”]
* Lesser, L. & Winsor, M. (in press; expected Nov. 2009), English Language Learners in Introductory Statistics: Lessons Learned from an Exploratory Case Study of Two Pre-Service Teachers. Statistics Education Research Journal, 8(2).
* Leigh M. Harrell, Rebecca L. Pierce, Alejandra Sorto, Teri J.
Murphy, Lawrence M. Lesser, &
Felicity B. Enders (2009). On the Importance and Measurement of Pre-Service
Teachers’ Efficacy to Teach Statistics: Results and Lessons Learned from
the Development and Testing of a GAISE-based Instrument. Proceedings
of the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, Section
on Statistical Education (pp. 3396-3403).
* (2009). Equity,
Social Justice, and the Mission of TODOS: Connections and Motivations. Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics, 1(1), 22-27.
* Winsor,
M. , & Lesser, L. (Nov.
2009). Mathematical
Explorations: Hot Wheels. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 15 (4), pp.
239-243.
* (2009). Social
Justice, Gender Equity, and Service Learning in Statistics Education: Lessons
Learned from the DOE-Funded Project ACE (ACtion for
Equity). Proceedings of the 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings,
Section on Statistical Education,
pp. 424-431.
* Lesser, L. & Groth, Randall (2009). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Statistics. In Joanne Foster (Ed.), CD-ROM Proceedings of the
Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate
Mathematics, pp. 148-152.
* Garfunkel, Solomon; Malkevitch, Joseph; Lesser, Lawrence M.;
Moore, David S.; Taylor, Alan D.;
Conrad, Bruce P.; Brams, Steven J.;
Gallian,
Joseph; Campbell, Paul J.;
(2009). For All Practical Purposes (8th edition of top-selling applied math-for-liberal-arts textbook).
* (June 22, 2009 initial
airing date) Mathematics outreach radio script (http://museum.utep.edu/archive/math/indexmath.htm)
I wrote for the Centennial Museum’s
Desert Diary program
on KTEP 88.5 FM.
* Mourat Tchoshanov,
* Olga Kosheleva,
* (2008). Equity, Social Justice, and the Mission of TODOS. Noticias de TODOS: News from TODOS Mathematics for All,
4(2), 7-9.
* (2008).
*
* (2008). Update on Texas College Readiness Standards in Mathematics, P-16 Initiatives, 1(2), pp.1-2.
* Larry
Lesser & Linda Gann (2008).
* “Mathematical
Lens” feature in Mathematics Teacher: pp. 116-119 of Sept. 2008 issue (Slippery
Slopes); “Media Clips” features in Mathematics Teacher: pp. _____ of March 2010 issue (Standard
Deviation or Deviant?), pp. 572, 574-575 of April 2009 issue ((Im)perfect Storm), pp. 193, 195-6
of Oct. 2008 issue (Easy
Angle Finder), pp. 690, 692 of May 2008 issue (Safe
Havens graph), and pp. 95-96 of Sept. 2007 issue (Predicting
Rain); in this journal, I’ve also published 7 book reviews and 11
Reader Reflection letters.
* (2008). Even More Fun
Learning Stats. STATS, 49, pp. 5-8, 19, 27.
* (2007). Learning Stats is
FUN…with the Right Mode. STATS, 48, pp. 7-11, 21, 26-28. [also,
see related invited webinar: http://www.causeweb.org/webinar/2006-04/]
*
* (2007). Teaching Time Savers: Modular
Curriculum Files. MAA Focus, 27(7), p. 5 [also at
MAAOnline: www.maa.org/features/102007timesavers.html]
* (2007). Critical Values and Transforming Data: Teaching Statistics with Social Justice. Journal of Statistics Education, 15(1), 1-21. http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v15n1/lesser.pdf (or http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v15n1/lesser.html). [the first juried article comprehensively connecting ‘statistics education’ and ‘social justice teaching’; also, see related invited webinars at: http://www.causeweb.org/webinar/2007-07/ and http://www.amstat.org/education/webinars/UsingSocialJusticeExamples.wmv]
* Joan Garfield, Andrew Zieffler, Robert delMas, Beth Chance, Sterling
Hilton, & Lawrence Lesser (2007). Practical Issues in Conducting Statistics Education Research. 2006 Proceedings of the American Statistical
Association, Section on Statistical Education, pp. 2295-2297.
* (2007). Using Graphing Calculators to Do Statistics: A Pair of Problematic
Pitfalls. Mathematics
Teacher, 100 (5),
375-378.
* L. Lesser with
L. Rayas, G. Trujillo, A. Vargas, Y. Velankar (2006). Teachers’
Technology Class Continues Discussion of Pitfalls. Mathematics Teacher, 99(5), 340-2.
* (2006). Book of Numbers: Exploring Jewish Mathematics and Culture at a Jewish High School. Journal of Mathematics and Culture, 1(1), 8-31. [the first juried comprehensive article on Jewish culturally relevant mathematics]
* L. Lesser & M. Winsor (2006). Notes
from the Field: Emerging Strategies to Address Needs on the Border. Noticias de TODOS: News from TODOS Mathematics for All,
2(1), pp. 1-3.
* L. Lesser & M. Winsor (2006). Interactive
Representations of the Big Six Trigonometry Functions: Connections to Geometry
and Language. ON-Math: Online Journal
of School Mathematics, 5(1). http://my.nctm.org/eresources/tocgraphic.asp?journal_id=6&issue_id=798
* M. Winsor, L. Lesser, L.
Payne, & D. Grouws
(2006). Real-Time
Traffic Data: A Vehicle for Statistical Exploration. ON-Math:
Online Journal of School Mathematics, 4(1). http://my.nctm.org/eresources/tocgraphic.asp?journal_id=6&issue_id=758
* (2006). Discovering
(in) the Discipline: Going Beyond Statistical Literacy to Explore What Helps
Students ‘Think Like a Statistician’, Proceedings
of the 2006 International Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning.
* (2006). Engaging the Intuition in Statistics to Motivate. Juried paper (also
presented at 50th national AP Conference) published on Advanced Placement Statistics
Course Home Page at College
Board AP Central.
* L. Lesser & Sally Blake
(2006). Mathematical Power: Exploring
Critical Pedagogy in Mathematics and Statistics. Refereed chapter in C.
Rossatto, R.L. Allen, M. Pruyn (Eds.) Re-inventing Critical Pedagogy: Widening the
Circle of Anti-Oppression Education, pp. 159-173.
* Sally Blake
& L. Lesser (2006). Exploring
the Relationship Between Academic Self-Efficacy and
Middle School Students’ Performance on a High-Stakes Mathematics Test.
In Alatorre, S., Cortina, J.L., Sáiz,
M. and Méndez, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th
annual meeting of the North American Chapter of
the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education,
Mérida, México: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Vol. 2, pp. 655-656.
* L. Lesser & M. Tchoshanov (2006). Evidence-Based Professional Development Partnership with Middle
Schools to Improve Student Test Achievement.
In Alatorre, S., Cortina, J.L., Sáiz,
M. and Méndez, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th annual
meeting of the North American Chapter of the
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education,
Mérida, México: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Vol. 2, pp. 208-209.
* Lesser, L. (2006). Critical
Values: Connecting Ethics, Statistics, and Social Justice to Lift Our World. Proceedings of the 2005 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Section on Statistical Education [pp. 2269-2271 in CD-ROM].
* L. Lesser & M. Tchoshanov (2006). Selecting Representations. Texas Mathematics Teacher, 53(2), 20-26.
* L.
Lesser & M. Tchoshanov (2005). The
Effect of Representation and Representational Sequence on Students’
Understanding, research report. In G. M. Lloyd, M.R. Wilson, J.L.M. Wilkins,
& S.L. Behm (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th annual
meeting of the North American Chapter of the
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. [proceedings at http://convention2.allacademic.com/index.php?cmd=pmena_guest
and on CD-ROM]
* (2005).
Illumination through Representation: An Exploration Across the
Grades. Statistics
Teacher Network, No. 66, pp. 3-5.
* (2005). “Theory and Practice”
columns in [Association of Mathematics Teacher
Educators] Connections:
“Bridging the Potential Divide Between
Theory and Practice” (15(1), pp. 10-11)
and “Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching” (14(2),
pp. 8-9).
* (2005). Getting
Students to Engage Conceptions as well as Content!, Proceedings
of the 4th Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning.
* (2005) Letter
to the Editor [Reply to P.T. von Hippel’s
“Mean,
Median, and Skew: Correcting a Textbook Rule”, JSE, 13(2)]. Journal
of Statistics Education, 13(3), http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v13n3/lesser_letter.html.
* (2005; initial airing dates
of 4 different scripts on March 14, April 19, May 18, June 7). Mathematics
outreach radio scripts (http://museum.utep.edu/archive/math/indexmath.htm)
I wrote for the Centennial Museum’s
Desert Diary program
on KTEP 88.5 FM.
* L. Lesser & E. Nordenhaug (2004). Ethical Statistics and Statistical Ethics: Making an Interdisciplinary Module, Journal of Statistics Education, 12(3); 14,500-word article published by the American Statistical Association on the world-wide web at: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n3/lesser.html. [the first juried comprehensive article on philosophical ethics and statistics education]
* (2004). Comment by Lesser
[on Wainer, H. and Brown, L.M. (2004), “Two
Statistical Paradoxes in the Interpretation of Group Differences: Illustrated
with Medical School Admission and Licensing Data”]. The American
Statistician, 58(4), 362.
* (2004). Slices of Pi: Rounding Up Ideas for
Celebrating Pi Day. Texas
Mathematics Teacher, 51(2),
6-11.
* (2004). Take a Chance by Exploring the Statistics in
Lotteries. Statistics Teacher Network [joint
publication of NCTM and ASA], No. 65, 6-7.
* (2003). A Whole Lotto Education! Texas
Mathematics Teacher, 50(2),
12-15.
* (2003). Letter to the Editor. [reply to
Martin, M. A. (2003), "'It’s
like...you know': The Use of Analogies and Heuristics in Teaching Introductory
Statistical Methods," JSE, 11(2)]. Journal of Statistics
Education, 11
(3). Published by the American Statistical Association at: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v11n3/lesser_letter.html
* (2003). Letter to the Editor. [reply to H. H., Friedman, L. W., and Amoo,
T. (2002) "Using Humor
in the Introductory Statistics Course," JSE, 10(3)]. Journal of Statistics Education, 11
(1), http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v11n1/lesser_letter.html.
* (2002). Letter to the Editor. [lengthy followup to Sowey, E. R. (2001) "Striking
Demonstrations in Teaching Statistics", JSE, 9(1)].
Journal of
Statistics Education, 10
(1), http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v10n1/lesser_letter.html.
* (2002). Stat Song Sing-Along! STATS, 33, pp. 16-17.
* (2001). Musical
Means: Using Songs in Teaching Statistics, Teaching Statistics, 23(3),
81-85. [the first juried
comprehensive article on the use of song in the statistics classroom]
* (2001). Representations
of Reversal: An Exploration of Simpson's Paradox. In Albert A.
Cuoco and Frances R. Curcio (Eds.), The Roles of
Representation in School Mathematics, pp. 129-145 [chapter of the
juried annual NCTM yearbook].
* (2001). Enlightening the Black Box: Technology Motivating Mathematics. In Przemyslaw Bogacki, Earl D. Fife and Larry Husch
(Eds.), Electronic
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in
Collegiate Mathematics. Published by the Math
Archives at: http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/.
* Lesser, L. (2002). Ethical
Statistics and Statistical Ethics: The Experience of Creating an
Interdisciplinary Module. Proceedings of the 2001Joint
Statistical Meetings, Section on Statistical Education [5 pages in CD-ROM].
* (2001). Discussion of Jim Banning Presentation "Using Photographs
as Qualitative Data to Promote Organizational Change: An Interpretivist
View". (second author: K. Fahey). In K. Fahey, J. Richter, L.
Lesser, D. Schnelker, and S. Omdal
(Eds.), Transitions in Qualitative Inquiry: Preparing for a New Century of
Research: Proceedings of 1998-1999 Qualitative Research Seminar Series at
* (2000). Sum
of Songs: Making Mathematics Less Monotone! Mathematics
Teacher, 93(5), 372-377. [also chosen as the issue's article
featured in Mathematics Teacher Online, where it was published for 18
months; appears to be the first
juried comprehensive article on the use of song in the mathematics classroom]
* (2000). Reunion
of Broken Parts: Experiencing Diversity in Algebra. Mathematics
Teacher, 93(1), 62-67. [an "Algebra for All" article chosen
as the issue's "Discuss with Your Colleagues" article; it did indeed
generate discussion, ranging from letters in the Mathematics Teacher to
my appearance as the featured guest on show #123
of "Math
Medley", an hour-long talk-radio call-in show to a spin-off activity published in the Fall 2007 issue of
Teaching Tolerance (No. 32, p. 15)
called Using
‘Objects’ to Object to Objectification.]
* (1999). Making the Black Box Transparent.
Mathematics Teacher,
92(9), 780-784.
* (1999). The 'Ys' and 'Why Nots'
of Line of Best Fit. Teaching Statistics, 21(2), 54-55.
* (1999). Investigating the Role of
Standards-Based Education in a Pre-Service Secondary Math Methods Course. In
Myra L. Powers and Nancy K. Hartley (Eds.), Promoting Excellence in
Teacher Preparation: Undergraduate Reforms in Mathematics and Science
[juried monograph for NSF-funded Rocky
Mountain Teacher Education Collaborative, also ERIC ED439089],
pp. 53-64.
* (1999). Exploring the Birthday Problem with Spreadsheets. Mathematics
Teacher, 92(5), 407-411.
* (1999). Technology, Standards and
Statistics: Lessons Learned from ETIP [Educational Technology Improvement
Project]. In Gail Goodell
(Ed.), Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International
Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, pp. 260-262.
* (1998). Technology-Rich
Standards-Based Statistics: Improving Introductory Statistics at the College
Level. Technological Horizons in
Education Journal, 25(7),
54-57.
* R. Mayes
& L. Lesser (1998). ACT in Algebra: Applications, Concepts
and Technology in Learning Algebra (Preliminary ed.) [college algebra textbook].
* (1998). Countering Indifference Using Counterintuitive Examples. Teaching Statistics, 20(1), 10-12. [article later selected by the editors for republication in Getting the Best from Teaching Statistics, a collection of the best articles from volumes 15-21; article also independently selected for translation into Italian for 1998 publication in the journal INDUZIONI demografia probabilità statistica a scuola: “Impiegare esempi controintuitivi per contrastare il disinteresse”, N. 16, pp. 87-92.]
* (1998). Richard Von Mises.
In Donald R. Franceschetti (Ed.), Biographical
Encyclopedia of Mathematicians, pp. 371-374.
* (1997). Exploring Lotteries with Excel. Spreadsheet
User, 4(2),
4-7.
My 50+ presentations
at national/international conferences include the International
Conference on Teaching Statistics, the United States Conference on Teaching
Statistics, International Conference
on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Mathematical
Association of America (winter & summer meetings), North American
chapter of the International Group for the Psychology
of Mathematics Education, Association
for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Joint Statistical
Meetings (American Statistical Association),
International Conference
on Education, Labor & Emancipation, Conference on Math Education and
Social Justice, Lineae Terrarum: International
Borders Conference, Association of
Mathematics Teacher Educators, National
Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, Working Class/Poverty Class
Academics Conference, the Sun
Conference on Teaching and Learning, the Advanced Placement Conference, Research Council on Mathematics Learning,
and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Presession. The
most exotic place I’ve presented was probably
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