Jo Boaler is a professor of math education at Stanford University and has written several books and research articles related to math education. She also co­-founded youcubed.org, an organization and ...

The idea that math is a natural-born talent—that some people just “get it,” and others won’t no matter the time and effort put in—is a mentality that researchers and schools have been challenging for ...

What started as a 50-point class project has become a published tool for changing how students think about mathematics.

A challenging math problem can make some students break into a cold sweat and others excited to wrap their brains around a puzzle. A wealth of research suggests that a student’s academic ...

“There should be no such thing as boring mathematics” - Edsger W Dijkstra. Teaching mathematics can be challenging since almost all new concepts depend highly on the sound understanding of ...

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 ...

When you think about intelligence, do you believe it is fixed from birth or do you think intelligence can change over one’s lifetime? And when it comes to Mathematics, do you believe there is such a ...

When Jo Boaler arrives in Massachusetts to teach her new approach to math instruction, she's received as something close to a rock star. Boaler — who teaches at Stanford — travels the country with a ...