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Mar 17, 2017 · Jo Boaler explains why mathematics is so traumatic for many people and shows a different way that people can relate to mathematics. She also shares the lates...
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Dec 5, 2018 · Listen to the story of Jo BOALER, Co-founder of YouCubed, Stanford Professor, Mathematics Communicator & Revolutionary, Author and Online course experimenter...
The BBC identified Jo as one of the 8 educators changing the face of education. Her newest book, Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics has received critical acclaim.
Jo Boaler grew up outside of Birmingham England. Her mother was a secretary, and her father was a technical draftsman. Boaler's early math classes were largely mundane until an iconoclastic teacher introduced her class to a more nurturing and collaborative way to learn math. [11]
She grew up outside Birmingham, England, in the 1970s — another progressive mathematics era. Neither of her parents had gone to university. Her father was a technical drawer; her mother was a secretary. But when Boaler was a child, her mother attended Open University, a distance-learning school, to study to become a teacher.
Dr Jo Boaler is the Nomellini Olivier Professor of Education at Stanford University. Former roles have included being the Marie Curie Professor of Mathematics Education in England, and a maths teacher in London comprehensive schools. Her PhD won the national award for educational research in the UK. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Society ...
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May 20, 2014 · Boaler’s approach to math education has been gaining a lot of new followers recently. When Boaler offered a massive open online course last summer, called How to Learn Math, 40,000 parents and teachers signed up. In April, she spoke at the White House on barriers that may be holding girls back from careers in science, technology, engineering ...
