Embracing your limitless mind w/ Jo Boaler

Math Therapy

In Vanessa's masters thesis titled "Imagining a World Where Paris Hilton Loves Math", there was nobody quoted more frequently than today's guest, Stanford professor Dr. Jo Boaler. On the season 5 finale of Math Therapy, Vanessa sits down with her math ed hero to discuss how limiting beliefs vs a growth mindset impact the brain, how struggle and mistake-making benefit learning, and the extremely personal resistance she's faced in a career dedicated to making math more equitable and accessible.

About Jo: (Website, Twitter)
Stanford Professor Dr Jo Boaler is author of 18 books, numerous articles, and a White House presenter on women and girls. Her latest book is called: Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead and Live without Barriers. She co-founded www.youcubed.org, is currently one of the writing team creating a new Mathematics Framework for the state of California, co-leading a K-12 Data Science Initiative and was named as one of the 8 educators “changing the face of education” by the BBC.
Links mentioned:

• App: Struggly
• Website: www.youcubed.org
• Book: Limitless Mind
• Standford study by Jo's colleague Lang Chen finding growth mindset helps student success
• Story of Nicholas Letchford - written off as a child with learning disabilities who went on to get a PhD in applied math

Connect with us:

• Vanessa Vakharia: @themathguru (Insta, Twitter, TikTok)
• Math Therapy: @maththerapy (Twitter)

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Math & gender (00:02:04)

3. Limitless Minds (00:08:00)

4. Pushback on progress (00:15:28)

5. Inspiring belief in students (00:32:56)

6. Q1 (00:37:52)

7. Q2 (00:38:15)

8. Outro (00:38:40)