Biographies

Egan J Chernoff (@MatthewMaddux), PhD is a professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. 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. His 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. Egan 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. Egan is an ardent user of social media for mathematics education and 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.