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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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Is There a Way to Support Multi-Dimensional Learning?

I think education system still uses an approach that was in classrooms hundreds of years ago. The textbooks have a lot to answer for in producing this very uninspiring mathematics. But yeah, if you open up the subject and have people see and solve it in different ways and value those different ways, somebody I appreciated a lot is a mathematician called Mary and Ms Akani. She won the Fields Medal. First woman in the world to win the Fields Medal in mathematics. And she talked about how her daughter thought she was an artist because she was always visualizing.

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