Daniel Cheshire

Daniel Cheshire serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Mathematics and Math Center Coordinator at Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU), based in Sueltenfuss Library Room 123 with contact details 210-528-7159 and dcheshire@ollusa.edu.

His educational qualifications include:

• PhD in Mathematics Education, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
• Master of Science in Pure Mathematics, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
• Bachelor of Science in Political Science (Mathematics minor), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

Dr. Cheshire's research investigates how post-secondary students learn, use, and perceive mathematics, with specialties in mathematical abstraction processes, student motivation, and cultivating classroom belonging. He advocates for active learning through data-driven student explorations to build interconnected mental structures of mathematical concepts, emphasizing that mathematics exists within practitioners' minds.

As a Mathematical Association of America member, he received an NSF grant for the SPIRAL Project redesigning OLLU's lab-based College Algebra course under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education program for Hispanic Serving Institutions.

His Math Center coordination role supports student academic success. Outside academia, he enjoys carpentry, woodworking, family time, and Aikido—having spent two decades building his Hill Country home.