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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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Do You Have a Maths Brain?

I think it's great when things are challenging, but there's something that's really key to being able to deal with challenging maths. And that is knowing that you can do it. I think the problem in education is a lot of people have got this idea that you're either born with a maths brain or you're not. So how do you know the difference between this is hard and I don't like doing hard things versus my brain is wired in a way where I need to learn in very different ways. How do you find that line? How do you operate in that gray area?

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