Click here for the YouCubed survey.Jo Boaler, The Nominelli-Olivier Professor of Education (Mathematics)
at Stanford University and co-founder of youcubed.
Our mathematical world has changed beyond recognition, yet schools still teach a sequence of high school courses designed in the 1800’s. The mis-match between the mathematics students need to use in the world and the mathematics they encounter in schools has become dramatic and is now being noticed by increasing numbers of people. In this session I will describe the pathway that I have been following since receiving a phone call from Steve Levitt (economist and author of
Freakonomics) asking if I would help him change high school math. I will also describe the work I am doing as part of the writing team for the New California Mathematics Framework – with the goal of bringing 21st century mathematics to students in California.