Lyndall Denise (Lyn) English is an Australian scholar whose research concerns primary and secondary school mathematics education, "focused mainly on analogical reasoning and problem solving in early childhood, statistical reasoning as data modelling, mathematical modelling of complex systems, and links between mathematical and scientific development".
[1] She is a professor in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice, and School of Teacher Education & Leadership, at Queensland University of Technology,[2] and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Mathematical Thinking and Learning.
[2] She became a primary school teacher in Queensland from 1974 to 1978, and served as the mathematics curriculum coordinator for the open access unit in Brisbane from 1979 to 1985.
[4] She has a PhD from the University of Queensland,[2] for which she received the outstanding dissertation awards of the Australian Association for Research in Education and of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in 1989.
[4] She founded Mathematical Thinking and Learning in 1997,[2] and continues to serve as its editor-in-chief.