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Listen to the story of Jo BOALER, Co-founder of YouCubed, Stanford Professor, Mathematics Communicator & Revolutionary, Author and Online course experimenter...
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I’m not a mathematician but a big fan, and after listening to this interview of Stanford’s Jo Boaler today, I just really felt like you all here would like it. The topics are varied, Jo is brilliant and it confirmed something I’d felt recently for the first time, that math is creative and beautiful. : r/mathematics.
Boaler grew up outside of Birmingham, England. Her mother was a secretary, and her father was a technical draftsman. [ 10 ] Her mother attended Open University to study to become a teacher and in this way Boaler experienced "cutting-edge, play-based educational ideas of the day".
Stanford University education professor Dr. Jo Boaler is passionate about teaching mathematics. Jo cofounded www.youcubed.org to inspire creative thinking in math teachers.
The tendrils of Boaler’s reformist bent and support for the underdog go back to her beginnings. She grew up outside Birmingham, England, in the 1970s — another progressive mathematics era.
[1:13] Dr. Boaler speaks about where she grew up and her experiences with math early on. [2:46] After studying at the University of Liverpool, how did Dr. Boaler come to teach secondary maths in London?
Oct 25, 2023 · Today’s snippet comes from a recent interview that I did with the incredible Professor Jo Boaler from Stanford University. We covered a lot of ground in our discussion, including parenting, pioneering in a male-dominated discipline, developing mathematical mindsets and how to embrace failure.
