## TJ Yusun

### University of Toronto Mississauga

Hello! I am an assistant professor of mathematics, teaching stream, at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

I am involved in a wide range of mathematics education projects with themes around active learning and assessment design: more recently, flipping a discrete mathematics course, and validating a concept inventory for proof-based courses. I also published my discrete math course notes as an OER text using PreTeXt. Other interests include algorithms for linear optimization with connections to the geometry of polyhedra.

### Interests

• Active Learning and Mathematics Education
• Academic Integrity in Mathematics Courses
• Linear Optimization and Discrete Geometry

### Education

• PhD in Mathematics, 2018

Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC)

• MSc in Mathematics, 2012

Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC)

• BS (Hons.) in Mathematics, 2008

Ateneo de Manila University (Manila, Philippines)

# Experience

#### Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM

Jul 2020 – Present Mississauga, ON

#### Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM

Jul 2018 – Jun 2020 Mississauga, ON

#### Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM

Sep 2017 – Apr 2018 Mississauga, ON

#### Chang School for Continuing Education, Ryerson University

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 Toronto, ON

#### Department of Mathematics, SFU

Jan 2014 – Dec 2016 Surrey, BC

# Recent Posts

### Start

Classes start this week and why do I constantly feel like I am behind on course prep? So. Many. Things. To. Do. :D The FSP bootcamp I joined is helping for sure in terms of time management but I find that I’m having to tweak some of the methods so that they can work for a teaching stream workflow where 80-90% of the work is focused on teaching and the rest on service (as opposed to research stream where the split is 40/40/20 research/teaching/service).

### Decisions

After all of the webinars and workshops and conferences I attended over the summer it is finally time to sit down, write a syllabus, and make pedagogical decisions about my courses.

### One Month To Go

Ok, cool. I’ve created ten videos so far for MAT202 and MAT136 combined. Nowhere where I wanted to be at this point but it’ll do. I like my current setup now of using Drawboard for PDF annotation and OBS for screen-capture.

# Contact

• tj.yusun@utoronto.ca
• DH-3058, Deerfield Hall, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
• Please email me to book an appointment. If you are a student in one of my courses, please check Quercus for both general drop-in hours and a link for bookable one-on-one time slots.