Egan J Chernoff

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Dr. Egan J Chernoff (@MatthewMaddux) is a Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of Curriculum Studies and an Associate Member, Department of Educational Administration in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S). He is, also, an Associate Member, Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts and Science at the U of S, and an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Currently, Egan is the English/Mathematics editor of the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, an associate editor of the Statistics Education Research Journal, and is the Book Reviews Editor of The Mathematics Enthusiast. He also is an editorial board member of Vector: Journal of the British Columbia Association of Mathematics Teachers and The Variable: An SMTS Periodical. Egan's research utilizes logical fallacies (e.g., the fallacy of composition, the appeal to ignorance and others) and particular theories, models and frameworks from the fields of mathematics education and cognitive psychology (e.g., attribute substitution) to account for prospective elementary, middle and high school math teachers' normatively incorrect, inconsistent and sometimes inexplicable responses to a variety of probabilistic tasks. He also makes efforts to popularize mathematics education. For example, he writes a column entitled “Math Ed Matters by MatthewMaddux” for The Variable, where he tells slightly bent, untold, true stories of mathematics teaching and learning. His digital curation of the mathematics education information he finds via the web has led him to be known as the Yahoo (in, of course, a web directory sense) of mathematics education.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Professor, University of Saskatchewan
  • 2014–2019
    Associate professor, University of Saskatchewan
  • 2008–2014
    Assistant professor, University of Saskatchewan

Education

  • 2009 
    Simon Fraser University, PhD
  • 2001 
    University of British Columbia, BEd
  • 1999 
    Thompson Rivers University, BSc (Mathematics)

Publications

  • 2019
    Selected writings from the Journal of the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers’ Society: Celebrating 50 years (1961-2011) of vinculum,
  • 2018
    Teaching and Learning Stochastics: Advances in Probability Education Research,
  • 2018
    Teaching and Learning Secondary School Mathematics: Canadian Perspectives in an International Context,
  • 2016
    Essential Research on Teaching and Learning Probability,
  • 2016
    Selected writings from the Journal of the British Columbia Association of Mathematics Teachers: Celebrating 50 years (1962-2012) of Vector.,
  • 2014
    Selected writings from the Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association: Celebrating 50 years (1962-2012) of delta-K. ,
  • 2014
    Probabilistic Thinking: Presenting Plural Perspectives ,

Grants and Contracts

  • 2017
    Probing the probabilistic knowledge of prospective mathematics teachers: An investigation into the use of logical fallacies
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2010
    Investigating prospective mathematics teachers’ perceptions of randomness: Transitioning to contextualized sequences
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2007
    Different perceptions of chance: Impacts on stochastics education
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Honours

Sugiyama Citizen Of The Year (1990)

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  • Consulting / Advising
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  • Research supervision