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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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MOOCs

I don't think the initial excitement around MOOCs sort of democratizing education and make it more equal came about because they found that the people taking MOOCs tended to be the more privileged people. But definitely, I think it's a good invention. And I have an online class that's for kids, that's little free class that gives them. How to Learn Maths. It shows maths as this visual creative subject and it shares mindset and some brain science. Kids who take it do better in maths class. We've studied it with randomized controlled trials and given it to middle school kids and other middle school kids who don't take it but are taught by the same teachers. So

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