A mathematical mindset approach to student learning

A mathematical mindset approach to student learning

Jo Boaler, Nomellini and Olivier Professor in the Graduate School of Education (Mathematics) at Stanford University, explores a mathematical mindset approach to student learning. I am a Professor at Stanford University, and I work to improve students’ mathematics learning in and out of school. I started working with Carol Dweck in 2010 when we agreed together that her powerful work on mindset could be shared with mathematics teachers and their students. Dweck has found that students who believe in their own potential, and embrace times of challenge and struggle, achieve at higher levels (Dweck, 2006). For the last decade, I have been sharing a “mathematical mindset” approach, with free resources for educators and parents, and researching its impact. One of the ways we share this approach is through our Stanford website: youcubed. This is a website sharing thousands of free resources. It is also a research center at Stanford, where I work with undergraduates, masters, and doctoral students, building resources and studying their effectiveness.