Paul Cobb

Vanderbilt University

Professor Emeritus

Paul Cobb is Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on improving the quality of mathematics teaching and student learning on a large scale. He is currently involved in a project that is developing practical measure of key aspects of high quality mathematics and investigating their use as levers for as well as measures of instructional improvement. He received Hans Freudenthal Medal for cumulative research program over the prior ten years from the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction (ICMI) in 2005, and the Silver Scribner Award from American Educational Research Association in 2010 for research over the past ten years that contributes to our understanding of learning and instruction.