Jo Boaler: Math Evangelist, Author, and Stanford Professor

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Listen in as Guy Kawasaki interviews Jo Boaler, math evangelist, respected researcher, and Stanford Professor. Jo believes our current methods for math instruction are broken and is on a mission to get rid of timed mathematics and rote memorization. She is a leading voice for a wholly different pedagogy where speed is out, depth is in, and the journey to an answer can be as important as the destination. Learn how she fought back against academic bullying from male colleagues and won. Jo Boaler is the author of Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers. Another fantastic episode of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:48.3	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people.
0:52.4	This episode's guest is Dr. Joe Bowler.
0:56.0	Joe is fundamentally an evangelist.
0:59.0	Evangelism comes from a Greek word meaning bringing the good news.
1:03.0	The good news that Joe brings is that there is a better way to teach math.
1:08.1	Joe started her career as a math teacher in secondary schools in London. Then she received a
1:13.4	master's and a PhD in math education from King's College London. She became an assistant
1:19.5	professor of math education at Stanford and achieved a full professorship in 2006. She left
1:26.1	Stanford to teach at Sussex University and then returned to
1:29.7	Stanford in 2010. She also co-founded a company called U-Cubed. This company sells mathematics
1:36.7	education resources. Finally, she is the author of nine books. Her latest is called Limitless Mind,
1:46.2	learn, lead, and Live Without Barriers. In essence, Joe's goal is to modernize the teaching of math. She believes in revamping
1:52.7	the methods that have been around since the 1800s by removing rote memorization and time tests.
1:59.5	Her methods make math more relevant with creative,
2:02.5	interconnected, and data science activities that involve a growth mindset. Oh, along the
2:09.3	way, she upset the status quo of math education. You'll learn about this shortly.
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