• David  Rock

    David Rock


    Dean of School of Education and Professor of Teacher Education
    Office of the Dean

    223 Guyton Hall
    Vita (PDF)

    Dr. David Rock is the Dean of the School of Education at the University of Mississippi. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University, M.A. in Mathematics Education from the University of Central Florida, and Ed. D. in Teacher Education from the University of Central Florida. Dr. Rock has taught mathematics in Florida and Mississippi at the middle and high school level. He has conducted a multitude of educational workshops and seminars at local, state, and national conferences in which his goal is to increase interest and enthusiasm of the teaching and learning of mathematics. He is the developer of the Internet Math Contests (https://themathcontest.com/), which encourages students to utilize the Internet to solve challenging mathematics problems from across the globe. David has also co-authored 16 books including Teaching Secondary Mathematics (2013), Scratch Your Brain Where It Itches (2001, 2006, 2008), and Teaching K-6 Mathematics (2003).

    Quadrennial Review 2022 Document - (https://education.olemiss.edu/_download/Rock_22.pdf)