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Boaler, Jo – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2022
In "Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching" mathematics education expert and best-selling author Jo Boaler delivers a blueprint to banishing math anxiety and laying a foundation for mathematics success that anyone can build on. Perfect for students who have…
Descriptors: Creativity, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Mathematics Anxiety
LaMar, Tanya; Boaler, Jo – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
The COVID-19 global pandemic has required everyone to make sense of data about community spread, levels of risk, and vaccine efficacy. Yet research shows that students are underprepared in data literacy. Tanya LaMar and Jo Boaler argue that data science education provides an opportunity to address this problem while providing much needed updates…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum, Relevance (Education)
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Boaler, Jo; LaMar, Tanya; Williams, Cathy – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
Over the course of 18 months, teams at the University of Chicago and Stanford University joined with other leaders across the United States and world to consider the issue of the types of mathematics used in the classroom. It quickly became clear that all students--starting from the youngest in prekindergarten to those in college--need to learn…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Boaler, Jo; Altendorff, Lori; Kent, Geoff – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
An examination of gender, social class and ethnicity performance and participation patterns in different UK countries shows that inequities occur in relation to gender, class and ethnicity but that the patterns of inequity look quite different in the three domains. Achievement is equal for different genders but many more males take mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Gender Differences
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Boaler, Jo; Staples, Megan – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: School tracking practices have been documented repeatedly as having negative effects on students' identity development and attainment, particularly for those students placed in lower tracks. Despite this documentation, tracking persists as a normative practice in American high schools, perhaps in part because we have few models…
Descriptors: High Schools, Heterogeneous Grouping, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
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Boaler, Jo – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2005
In stark contrast to the recommendations of the current White Paper, Jo Boaler's recent research suggests that the radical progressive state school commitment to mixed ability teaching has, in the case of this landmark study, led to better results and better life-chances than its more traditional counterpart whose ability grouping practices…
Descriptors: Social Class, Ability Grouping, Educational Practices, Social Bias
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference presents papers from: plenary panels; research forums; working sessions; discussion groups; short oral communications; and poster sessions from the meeting. Plenary lectures included: (1) Studying and Capturing the Complexity of Practice: The Case of…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Motion, Foreign Countries, Psychology
Goos, Merrilyn, Ed.; Brown, Ray, Ed.; Makar, Katie, Ed. – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2008
This document presents the proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). The theme of this conference is "Navigating Currents and Charting Directions." The theme reminds us that, although we are constantly pushed to account for the quality and impact of our research, we…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Educational Development, Practicums