From the moment we enter school we are taught that our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things but not others, and that this is all exclusively conditioned by genetics.
The BBC named her one of the eight educators who are "changing the face of education." Her books include What\'s Math Got to Do with It?, The Elephant in the Classroom: Helping Children Learn and Love Maths , and the Mathematical Mindsets series..
Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Time magazine , the Telegraph , and the Wall Street Journal .
She is the author of the first MOOC on mathematics learning for teachers and parents, as well as of many research papers on the subject of education and mathematics.
She is the co-founder and director of youcubed, an educational resource reaching more than 230 million students.
About author(s): Jo Boaler is a professor of education and equity at Stanford University.
It is an invaluable resource for educators and parents alike.
This authoritative yet accessible book sets out to debunk those myths by revealing the six keys to unblocking our vast learning potential.
These damaging and--as it turns out--false ideas have affected our confidence and limited our options.
This notion haunts us into adulthood, when we tend to simply accept established beliefs about our abilities (such as that we are bad at math, or that we are not \'creative types\').
From the moment we enter school we are taught that our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things but not others, and that this is all exclusively conditioned by genetics
