Is a mathematics educator with special interest in the history and culture of mathematics and ethnomathematics. His degrees are in mathematics and history, comparative and international education, and a Ph.D. in mathematics education from Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria). After Peace Corps service as a mathematics teacher in Sierra Leone, he taught mathematics education at Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria) and at Towson University (USA). He is a past-president of the North American Study Group on Ethnomathematics and organizer of the Fourth International Conference on Ethnomathematics in 2010. He also served as Interim President of ISGEm in 2018-19.

Has worked in Ethnomathematics since his doctoral studies. As a student he met Professor D'Ambrosio in the US at an NCTM meeting and they began a friendship and correspondence. In collaboration with Ethnomathematics scholars from about the globe, Shockey has served as an editor for the Journal of Mathematics and Culture for the past fifteen years.

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He is Professor Emeritus of Bilingual Mathematics Education at New Mexico State University where he served as in the College of Education. He is Vice President of the Inter-American Committee on Mathematics Education (CIAEM), International Representative of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and member of the Council of Teachers 2 Teacher Global. He received a BA in Mathematics from Stanford University and a doctorate in Mathematics Education from Columbia University in New York. He edited the Newsletter of the International Study Group on Ethnomathematics from 1986-1998 and translated from Portuguese Ethnomathematics: The Art of Explaining and Knowing by Ubiratan D’Ambrosio He has worked in several Latin American countries and has published in English and Spanish.